tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post4573898595919190753..comments2023-10-14T03:58:59.333-06:00Comments on The Tao of D&D: Where in the World Should I Go?Alexis Smolenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-26184460672461798462017-02-08T02:32:10.010-07:002017-02-08T02:32:10.010-07:00I voted for Southeast Asia for the effect on the t...I voted for Southeast Asia for the effect on the trade table.Keltoihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13009157588474586885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-28686104458967644252017-02-07T22:06:22.882-07:002017-02-07T22:06:22.882-07:00Jonathon,
Here's a quick list of goods that I...Jonathon,<br /><br />Here's a quick list of goods that I have for:<br /><br />SIAM: artworks, cement, charcoal, cloth, coconuts, cotton, edible bird's nests, elephants, fish, flour, fruits, gemcutting, hides, maize, perfume, rice, ruby, salt, sapphire, slaves, spices, spinel, teak, timber, tin, tobacco, tourmaline, tungsten, vegetables, woodcraft, zircon<br /><br />MALAYSIA: bananas, betel nuts, buffalo, camphor, catechu, charcoal, cinnamon, cloth, cloves, coal, coconuts, coffee, copra, cotton, dried fish, ducks, edible bird's nests, elephants, embroidery, fish, fruits, gemcutting, gold, groundnuts, hemp, honey, iron, jelutong, kaolin, lead, limestone, maize, manganese, meat, medicinal plants, nutmeg, palms, pepper, perfume, pineapples, pottery, rattan, refined sugar, resin, rice, salt, shipbuilding, snakeskin, spices, sugarcane, swine, tapioca, timber, tin, tinsmelting, tobacco, tungsten, vegetables<br /><br />INDOCHINA: antimony, arrowroot, bananas, beans, betel nuts, brass, buffalo, cabbages, cacao, cardamon, castor beans, cement, chromium, cinchona, citrus, cloth, coal, coconuts, coffee, coppersmithing, cotton, cotton cloth, distilling, dried fish, dried fruit, ducks, dyestuffs, fish, flour, foodstuffs, fruits, glassware, gold, gum benzoin, hides, iron, ivory carving, jewelry, kapok, lac, lead, limestone, maize, manganese, paper, pepper, pottery, rice, ruby, salt, sapphire, shipbuilding, silk, silk cloth, soap, spices, sugarcane, swine, tea, teak, timber, tin, tobacco, tungsten, vegetables, yams, zinc, zircon<br /><br />Remembering that Indochina comprises Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-69965112053330144052017-02-07T21:08:29.322-07:002017-02-07T21:08:29.322-07:00I voted for Southeast Asia for the benefits to the...I voted for Southeast Asia for the benefits to the trade system. Historically, a respectable chunk of the adventuring and exploration that was done in the centuries prior to the present of the campaigns was done explicitly to establish trade routes with that part of the world. Textiles! Medicines! Spices! (Spices, man, worth more than their weight in gold!) We're within a decade of the onset of the tea trade!<br /><br />I'm using a lot of exclamation points because treasures beyond imagination lie in the region!Jonathonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424548045152722964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-7807999584349289592017-02-07T13:43:35.498-07:002017-02-07T13:43:35.498-07:00Last night, I did some preliminary work on looking...Last night, I did some preliminary work on looking over general Chinese history. In 1650, the region was in a sorry state. It is usually given in books that the Manchus replaced the Ming dynasty in 1644, but of course China is a big region and this did not happen all at once. The southern provinces were still under the "Southern Ming" dynasty until 1658; a general was not committed to fighting them all out until 1653. The province of Fujian and some places elsewhere had been subjected to punishment that resulted in the mass genocide of hundreds of thousands of former Ming supporters, causing these areas to become depopulated. A despot in Szechuan (Sichuan) province had been deposed at last in 1648; he, too, was a mass murderer of terrific qualifications, supposedly killing some two and a half million or thereabouts in the previous five years of that province's history. Sichuan is under the sovereignty of the Manchus in 1650.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Outer Mongolia hasn't fallen to the Manchus, nor the provinces of Sinkaing (Xinjiang), Tibet (Xizang) or Kokonur (Qinghai), all of which are still under the control of various Mongol tribes. In my world, the Mongols were orcs and uruk-hai (or Haruchai, as I spell it), the latter being comparable with the "ogrillon" from the Fiend Folio.<br /><br />If I draw a northwest line from the corner of India/Burma, I can include the Mongol states noted, leave Sichuan undone for the time being, then add Gansu, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia; these last three provinces are all part of the Ming Dynasty, but it makes a clear line that will fill the hole. Eastern China can then be finished later.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-23393967248433506582017-02-07T10:44:00.471-07:002017-02-07T10:44:00.471-07:00I have decided NOT to make most of the Americas po...I have decided NOT to make most of the Americas populated by non-human races. However, as the "land-bridge" over which humans are known to have travelled to connect them to the Americas is heavily occupied by hobgoblins, norkers, cavewights and xvarts, as well as elves, that's not a route that humans could take.<br /><br />So, I postulate that 25,000 years ago, weather patterns in the south Pacific altered so that travel east to west across the gap between the west coast of South America and Polynesia became easy and practical for about four thousand years, just at the time that migrations were taking place out of Asia and into Oceania. This puts some ten thousand persons on the South American continent, who then multiply and spread outwards, north rather than south. I can then make "native Americans" that are similar, but different, to the usual construct.<br /><br />How different I haven't decided . . . but I do intend to make them more advanced, more able to protect themselves and capable of [perhaps] a magic use that isn't Eurasian/African in construct.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-34493961366698714432017-02-07T10:39:06.160-07:002017-02-07T10:39:06.160-07:00Iceland + Greenland.
No time like the present.Iceland + Greenland.<br /><br />No time like the present.Engelhart Askjellsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12717990998654139122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-20381807525174682012017-02-07T09:37:25.633-07:002017-02-07T09:37:25.633-07:00Greenland.
Please note this has nothing to do wit...Greenland.<br /><br />Please note this has nothing to do with the Greenland votes now tying with Western China. That is purely coincidental. Purely.<br /><br />I like the idea that we may, someday, get to see Alexis' take on the Americas.Ozymandiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01065642299277380465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-49939934332812386522017-02-06T21:03:54.119-07:002017-02-06T21:03:54.119-07:00Voted for China to fill in that big ol' hole, ...Voted for China to fill in that big ol' hole, get one step closer to finishing Eurasia, and for the (I assume) major update to your trade tables...cause you don't do enough work. :)<br /><br />Though West Coast Africa was a close second.J. Cormierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06775658681126093604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-28324591806038492042017-02-06T20:35:06.184-07:002017-02-06T20:35:06.184-07:00While it seems highly unlikely that we will get to...While it seems highly unlikely that we will get to China, I have a deep-hearted love for the place.Embla Strandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07637213677781541500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-47624869542903224532017-02-06T15:58:48.939-07:002017-02-06T15:58:48.939-07:00Oh snap, all of a sudden the greenland votes jumpe...Oh snap, all of a sudden the greenland votes jumped up. If we're not careful, the Juvenis party is going to be contractually obligated to go!Pandredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03917809464727878157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-68910525951347129482017-02-06T08:47:44.461-07:002017-02-06T08:47:44.461-07:00Greenland! Not big on natural resources, but there...Greenland! Not big on natural resources, but there's got to be something going on with the Northern Lights that a well equipped party can take advantage of somehow. That, and it's a stepping stone to the interior of North America, a land brimming with opportunity to oppress native cultures and exploit natural resources for fun and profit without as much interference from existing European power structures.<br /><br />On a less overenthusiastic note, as a player in the online campaign I look forward to putting my ranger skills to use exploring new lands (and dungeons!), and there isn't land that's quite as new as the New World. Lothar Svenssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03195099273437009840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-77637985318798940452017-02-06T01:53:58.543-07:002017-02-06T01:53:58.543-07:00I'll help with Chinese romanization issues, if...I'll help with Chinese romanization issues, if you do go the China route.Maxwell Joslynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02309867478186083339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-54646379902606320542017-02-05T21:26:08.641-07:002017-02-05T21:26:08.641-07:00To be honest, Iceland wouldn't be that hard a ...To be honest, Iceland wouldn't be that hard a make; a little bigger than Ireland, certainly with fewer inhabitants, a little city plotting and some difficult coastlines . . . wouldn't take that long to research, since the history is relatively short and again, not that many city centers. Was looking today, found that Reykjavik at least was founded in 870.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-14976621704892771852017-02-05T20:44:55.673-07:002017-02-05T20:44:55.673-07:00I voted Iceland out of selfishness. I might get to...I voted Iceland out of selfishness. I might get to adventure there some day!Pandredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03917809464727878157noreply@blogger.com