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What Period in English History Would you Run a Campaign for?

Started by RPGPundit, March 25, 2013, 08:55:02 PM

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Jacob Marley

#45
March 26, 2013, 04:00:29 PM
1. The Norman Invasion and the Harrying of the North.
2. Robin Hood, etc.
3. Hundred Years' War.

Richard the Lionheart and Saladin could be interesting.

Settembrini

#46
March 26, 2013, 04:07:10 PM
Quote from: The Traveller;640441Un marin Français est une âme envolée,
  Libre comme un oiseau de montagne,
Son poing énergique devrait être prêt à résister
  Un mot dictatorial.
Son nez doit pantalon et sa lèvre devrait friser,
Ses joues doivent flamme et son front doit furl,
Sa poitrine se soulever et doit son cœur doit s'allumer,
Et son poing être toujours prêt pour un coup de massue.

Yes, and you can be rightfully proud of your freedom and strength!
And it was a frenchman, P. Bourdieu IIRC, who recognised in the graduates of the grandes ecoles:
 
...the tendency to be free-wheeling, not only with defiance and independence, but with truth.

English is a germanic language with a doubled dictionary for making class-based distinctions...between Saxon nerf herders and Norman Kingpins.
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The Traveller

#47
March 26, 2013, 04:13:28 PM
Quote from: Settembrini;640449English is a germanic language with a doubled dictionary for making class-based distinctions...between Saxon nerf herders and Norman Kingpins.
English is a Frankish language with germanic and latin associations. Also that bit of verse was a ripoff of the HMS Pinafore, and a more bombastic piece of nationalistic quavering I've yet to come across. Ironically the actual Scandinavians under Harald III were kicked off the rock in short order in 1066.

Fine fine I'll leave it there, before heaving bosoms and curling lips raise an energetic fist to resist my dictatorial word. :D
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Settembrini

#48
March 26, 2013, 04:16:53 PM
We can definitely agree thaqt the Britons, Celts and their languages got the short end of the stick in any case.
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crkrueger

#49
March 26, 2013, 05:11:42 PM
Actually, as far as the various families of Old Germanic languages go, Old Frankish has probably one of the smallest influences on English.
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Settembrini

#50
March 26, 2013, 05:47:30 PM
Oh yes, Dutch and low [or medieval] German are so close to english, it is not funny.

But the BIG quiestion remains:

Which period in British history is NOT exciting adventure materièl?

1990-1999
????-????
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The Butcher

#51
March 26, 2013, 06:30:35 PM
Quote from: Settembrini;640482But the BIG quiestion remains:

Which period in British history is NOT exciting adventure materièl?

1990-1999
????-????

Not even that, if you're into World of Darkness. :D

Though I strongly favor the tried-and-true Arthurian fantasy and Victorian horror and adventure stuff.

You're right, it is an intriguing litle isle, but I sometimes wonder about the Anglophonic bias in the hobby. I'd love to see someone run a late-19th-century two-fisted adventure campaign of heroic agents at the service of His Imperial Majesty, Napóleon III, thwarting the schemes of la perfide Albion from Indochina to Montréal. ;)

Kiero

#52
March 27, 2013, 05:28:05 AM
Quote from: Settembrini;640482Oh yes, Dutch and low [or medieval] German are so close to english, it is not funny.

But the BIG quiestion remains:

Which period in British history is NOT exciting adventure materièl?

1990-1999
????-????

For me personally, about 200-1650AD. Anything with a hint of medieval or with any of that feudalism bollocks bores me to tears. I either want prehistory, antiquity or Enlightenment onwards.
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jibbajibba

#53
March 27, 2013, 05:58:08 AM
Quote from: Kiero;640332The English aren't British (and nor is anyone else) until 1707. Which was the entirety of my point.

Wales was a principality rolled under the Kingdom of England.
Great Britain is England, (Wales) and Scotland
The United Kingdom is Great Britain + Northern Ireland
The British Isles is all or ireland, great Britain and associated other bits that all outside the UK (for tax reasons) but are historically linked, Isle of Man & Isles of Scilly. The Scotish islands are part of scotland so not included in this distinction.

The Channel Islands aren't geographically part of the British Isles but they are cultureally and they fill the same slot as the other island tax havens.

Britain was a term used by the Romans though.
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#54
March 27, 2013, 06:42:45 AM
Quote from: jibbajibba;640600Great Britain is England, (Wales) and Scotland

Precisely, and so until the Act of Union, there is no "Britain". There was England (and Wales) and Scotland. Two separate nations (sometimes joined by sharing a monarch, but still sovereign) until that point when they welded their destinies together for good. Or at least until next year, depending on how the referendum goes.
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Settembrini

#55
March 27, 2013, 08:02:52 AM
Learn sth new everyday:

British Isles =! Britain;

is that correct?
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Kiero

#56
March 27, 2013, 08:17:44 AM
Quote from: Settembrini;640615Learn sth new everyday:

British Isles =! Britain;

is that correct?

"Britain" is roughly speaking a political designation meaning the United Kingdom (though it's geographically inaccurate, given it includes Northern Ireland and a bunch of other places). It is from Britain that we get the identity British.

"The British Isles" is a geographical designation meaning the two islands of Great Britain and Ireland (and some other places). It's a catch-all that ignores the fact that the UK and Republic of Ireland are two different political units.

Here's a diagram explaining the various bits:

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Sigmund

#57
March 27, 2013, 10:49:52 AM
I'm very much into the Ancient World thing at the moment, so for me in my current mindset it'd be Roman or pre-Roman Britain.
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#58
March 28, 2013, 02:43:39 PM
Late 12th/early 13th century - Crusades, Robin Hood, Religious turmoil, Robber Barons and so on.

Arthurian era - post apocalyptic Roman Britain, ravaging invaders, numerous last stands, Arthur riding to the rescue and cocking things up, heroic colonisers and so on.
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#59
March 28, 2013, 06:54:51 PM
I would run a detective style mystery during the inter-war period. (1918-1938 or so)
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