From: MurfNMurf@aol.com
Date: Fri 12 Apr 2002 - 04:27:45 EEST
Well, I've been running a campaign off-n-on set on a _decidedly_ Alternate
Earth for the last 20yrs or so; having never been one to run any games
actually set in Glorantha.
The main focus of the campaign in the past has been on pre-Christian
Celtic Ireland, with occasional side trips to the Goblin-filled woods and
hills of Prydain, as well as to the wilds of Alba to trade with the Cruithni.
The Greeks are in what you'd probably figure; City States, trade,
almost-continuous warfare, as well as Harryhausenesque high adventure.
While reading through The Anead, I discovered that, as far as legend was
concerned, Trojan refugees fleeing the fall of Troy wound up settling in
what'd eventually become Rome. History-wise, I like the Greeks better than
the Romans (I don't know why), so I have the Italian peninsula having been
settled for only about 80 years.
The Norse do the usual trading, raiding, discovering, etc. Icelnad has
been settled only 30 or 40 years, while Vineland, loaded with assorted tribes
of non-too-friendly Skraelings has had a few tenacious settlements for the
last 10yrs.
Aside from the Gauls, and the occasional tribe of gigantic Germanic
tribesmen, Continental Europe is almost entirely covered by a large forest in
an effort to save me from having to hassle with mapping.
India and Asia are pretty stereotypically what you'd think, as I haven't
done more than vauge research.
China is the big power there, all Wuxia and Martial Arts, and, while
having had much success with their sail-powered vehicles, and blackpowder
technology, a recent catastrophic explosion at the Imperial Alchemist's
Enclave located on the grounds of the Emperor's Summer Palace has halted
_all_ such research.
Latin America is made up of the usual Aztec, Toltec, Mayan,Empires, etc.
Deep within Machu Pichu can be found a crashed Alien spacecraft :)
The Middle East is prettywell documented, historywise. The Sahara is still
a lush forest, and Egypt isn't a big power. I wanted to intentionally steer
away from Egyptian drag and all, so I have _Kush_ as the big power down
there. No pyramids, no Sphinx, no mummies, etc... :)
Other cultures, etc to follow as needed.
Characters in the game came from _all_ over; sometimes requiring some
clever (or not-so-clever) GM fenageling to get everyone up to speed :)
-Ken-
--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
text/plain (text body -- kept)
text/html
---
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Sat 05 Jul 2003 - 20:37:30 EEST