[thedarkelf007]

I can understand both sides of the coin.

There are some basic items in the main rules that should be time independent, but quite a lot of it has release dates, or something that can be traced.

Now once you add release date as a variable to all the items, you then need a mechanism for these release dates.

This goes from weapons, equipment and vehicles to class features, races, abilities and spells that just were not known in the earlier time periods.

You can split the game system to two settings, but then you have to maintain two settings... what happens when they release more time dependent material (and there is a lot of it in the setting)?

Star Wars has era's of play which I can split technology and features off into to say some of these things are not available in other periods. With this is it an options tick box to select the era's of play that items are acceptable from.

This is also a possibility with each version of the game being a different era to be selectable...