What happens if the player characters in this setting with their success, have managed to fund an early exploration of the New World, thus being an "Early Columbus" for this setting? Dark Albion is a mixture of historical and fantasy setting, there are monsters in France. This setting has about the same technology that existed in the time of Columbus, so it would be possible for player characters to mount such an expedition using treasures they accumulated from various adventures. Albion has ports which can construct such ships, so assuming the rest of the World has the same geography as our Earth. A PC fleet which departed from London and sailed across the Atlantic would likely end up where?
Do you think Cape Cod, New York Long Island, or maybe Virginia? What do you think they would find once they got there, based on the least surprises given what fantasy Europe looks like in this setting?
Also how would the discovery of the New World affect events in the Old World, what would be the most immediate changes that would occur as your best guess?
Wouldn't a lot of where they end up depend on the time of year they set sail?
There may even be omens of their arrival in the "New World", so a welcoming.
Quote from: Greentongue;1138884Wouldn't a lot of where they end up depend on the time of year they set sail?
There may even be omens of their arrival in the "New World", so a welcoming.
It happened with Walt Disney's Poccahontas, you had "Grandmother Willow" too, those things wouldn't be too out of line for Dark Albion.
Quote from: Greentongue;1138884Wouldn't a lot of where they end up depend on the time of year they set sail?
There may even be omens of their arrival in the "New World", so a welcoming.
That smacks of the experiences of the Spanish conquistadors. Therefore "colonialism". Therefore, BadWrongFun. Do you even CurrentYear?
, because text carries tone like a sieve carries water.
Quote from: RandyB;1138886That smacks of the experiences of the Spanish conquistadors. Therefore "colonialism". Therefore, BadWrongFun. Do you even CurrentYear?
, because text carries tone like a sieve carries water.
I figure if the expedition stays north of the Mason-Dixon line. We wouldn't have to worry about slavery. I think the Hudson Valley would be a good place to colonize it has a deep water tidal river where ocean going wooden ships can sail as far north as Albany, New York. I would know, I used to live there. Manhattan would be a good site for planting the first colony, we could make a deal with the indians for that island, and I even have a map of Manhattan Island before there was a city there. There is a book by Eric W. Sanderson called Mannahatta, the indian name for that island. Just like the Dutch, we would set up a colony on the south end of that island or what would be downtown Manhattan in our World. Mannahatta is covered with trees, some very ancient, as the indians who lived there didn't do much logging. It is bounded by the East River, the Hudon and Harlem rivers and the Long Island Sound, it is well protected from storms and in short, it would be a good place to build ship yards and to launch boats from, and make a trading post with the Indians for the fur trade. There are lots of fish in the sound and up the Hudson, and it would make a excellent place to start a colony.
In the 1450s. The PCs could get to work building a castle, a good site for a castle would be where the Cloisters Museum is situated today, it is high on a hill and much of Mannahatta is visible from that location once the trees are cleared, this would be a great place for the PCs to establish their own kingdom, we could bring over some refugees from the Wars of the Rose's and establish a colony there. I wonder how the English King would react?
The English in the 1450s were very poor navigators. They had some ships of course, but they didn't really embrace the Sea as their future source of power until the reign of Elizabeth I.