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Old December 7th, 2008, 04:14 PM

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Default Re: OT: The ambiance and setting (part 3)

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I don't think it's a good idea to draw to many comparisons between real-world history and Dominions history. Gath shouldn't become Jews. Especially if there's any chance to have a Vampire Count named Adolf have anything near important position in the Ulm. And please, no rape in the backstory.

Regarding geography: just make it random. Have few neighbour-dependent quests that only appear if, say, Ulm and Marignon start next to each other. Even if you don't go that way, don't take it too seriously. The closest we're going to get is the Map That Will Never Be, and it will never be.

If you want to be serious about I, I suggest having MA Marignon without inquisitors influence France-equivalent while LA Marignon with diabolists/inquisitors influence Spain-equivalent.
But I thought Gath was the Jewish tribes...

Random geography is a great idea. What could be done is have nations appear in clusters, so nations appropriate to be close together are always close together, but no static geography necessary. Unfortunately, I've never written a random map generation program; I wonder how dominion's works (now THAT'S getting into copyright issue). What is most likely to happen is static geography in the early stages of game development when there's also only a very few nations, and a randomizer added once there's a better fleshed out game. That will make the Map That Will Never Be, to be; too much initial ambition is what kills these things you know.

are you suggesting that Mari be stretched to fill the role of two historical entities?
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Old December 7th, 2008, 09:46 PM

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Default Re: OT: The ambiance and setting (part 3)

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But I thought Gath was the Jewish tribes...
No, Gath is the Israelite tribes before they were enslaved by the Assyrians and lost to history. For instance, they've got Benjamites (yay!). That is, Gath seems to be the northern kingdom of Israel, whereas Jews come from the southern kingdom of Judah which had only a couple of tribes and was never destroyed quite so thoroughly.

Gath has approximately the same relationship to modern Jews that Inca has to modern Mexicans.

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