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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7340591" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>This is what I was thinking of when I misinterpreted "Dragons Conquer America" "Dragons Conquer America" doesn't really make sense if the Dragons are already there. Under my scenario the reason magic doesn't cross from the New World to the Old is because magic doesn't work in the Old World but it does in the New World. You see the borders of the map of the New World? Beyond the edges of that map, magic doesn't operate, you can't teleport beyond the edge of that map, you can travel to other magical planes of existence from there, you can summon extraplanar creatures for example, but no means of magic will take you across the invisible border to the nonmagical half of the World. Why that is, nobody knows, the result is that the Old World is historical right up to the year 1492, the Viking voyages of Leif Erikson were largely forgotten about by this time, it contained tales of magic, but those were considered fables and ignored. Columbus did his voyage just as the history books say, his three ships crossed that invisible barrier between the nonmagical world to the magical one without incident, when his crew landed on that first island in the Caribbean, they encountered elves. if they were D&D elves, what would happen from there? Chances are the first magic users they encounter won't be high level. Probably Columbus would refer to them as "Indians," Columbus having never actually seen an Indian doesn't really know what they look like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7340591, member: 6925649"] This is what I was thinking of when I misinterpreted "Dragons Conquer America" "Dragons Conquer America" doesn't really make sense if the Dragons are already there. Under my scenario the reason magic doesn't cross from the New World to the Old is because magic doesn't work in the Old World but it does in the New World. You see the borders of the map of the New World? Beyond the edges of that map, magic doesn't operate, you can't teleport beyond the edge of that map, you can travel to other magical planes of existence from there, you can summon extraplanar creatures for example, but no means of magic will take you across the invisible border to the nonmagical half of the World. Why that is, nobody knows, the result is that the Old World is historical right up to the year 1492, the Viking voyages of Leif Erikson were largely forgotten about by this time, it contained tales of magic, but those were considered fables and ignored. Columbus did his voyage just as the history books say, his three ships crossed that invisible barrier between the nonmagical world to the magical one without incident, when his crew landed on that first island in the Caribbean, they encountered elves. if they were D&D elves, what would happen from there? Chances are the first magic users they encounter won't be high level. Probably Columbus would refer to them as "Indians," Columbus having never actually seen an Indian doesn't really know what they look like. [/QUOTE]
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