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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4028986" data-attributes="member: 54707"><p>That’s a good point. It shouldn’t be limited to major metropolises, even much smaller areas can have some fascinating and very useful aspects to them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That’s also a good point. I guess it is kind of subjective whether I consider Constantinople the far eastern reaches of the West, as I do, or the far western reaches of the East, which you seem to.</p><p></p><p>I guess I should delineate my intentions to make it easier to understand but I’m not gonna insist that others use my definitions. But as for me, I’ll basically consider anything west of Israel the West, anything between Israel and Persia (modern Iran) the Middle East, and anything East of the eastern border of Iran, such as Afghanistan onwards, the Orient.</p><p></p><p>I’m not gonna follow that absolutely though because I would place cities like Moscow and Kiev in the West because of culture and basic ethnicity, rather than geography.</p><p></p><p>But it did cause me to add a separate listing or classification for the Middle East.</p><p></p><p>Also I’ve decided that at some time in the future, when I have the spare time, I’m gonna start a thread comparing Real World adventuring and exploration (based on my own explorations, expeditions, travels, and vadding experiences) with Game adventuring and exploration. I’ll call that the: <em>Real World Exploring and Adventuring versus Game Exploring and Adventuring</em> thread, which if you think about it, makes a lot of sense in the big scheme of things.</p><p></p><p></p><p><u>As for my next set of cities:</u></p><p></p><p><strong>Carthage</strong> – Once the jewel of the world and the Queen of Africa I think this must have been both an extremely handsome city and an immensely interesting one. Before being put to the sword and the torch by Rome. But the good thing about Carthage is that any game could locate so much there and make most things seem quite believable due to locale, and it’s clouded history.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Kiev</strong> – I have a sort of personal love and fascination with ancient and Medieval Kiev. From a small village upwards to the Great Gates, and beyond. It would make a superb frontier’s city and was visited by everyone from Asiatic steppe raiders to the Vikings and Rus, to the Byzantines, and German knights, and any number of other peoples. I can imagine it in some periods very much like a brawling and very rough American West mining encampment deep in Indian Territory during open hostilities. It would have been an interesting and brutal place to live for any number of reasons, not least of which was the clime.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I was thinking about putting Troy here too, but I'm gonna put that in the Middle East, though that really doesn't feel right to me in some repsects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 4028986, member: 54707"] That’s a good point. It shouldn’t be limited to major metropolises, even much smaller areas can have some fascinating and very useful aspects to them. That’s also a good point. I guess it is kind of subjective whether I consider Constantinople the far eastern reaches of the West, as I do, or the far western reaches of the East, which you seem to. I guess I should delineate my intentions to make it easier to understand but I’m not gonna insist that others use my definitions. But as for me, I’ll basically consider anything west of Israel the West, anything between Israel and Persia (modern Iran) the Middle East, and anything East of the eastern border of Iran, such as Afghanistan onwards, the Orient. I’m not gonna follow that absolutely though because I would place cities like Moscow and Kiev in the West because of culture and basic ethnicity, rather than geography. But it did cause me to add a separate listing or classification for the Middle East. Also I’ve decided that at some time in the future, when I have the spare time, I’m gonna start a thread comparing Real World adventuring and exploration (based on my own explorations, expeditions, travels, and vadding experiences) with Game adventuring and exploration. I’ll call that the: [I]Real World Exploring and Adventuring versus Game Exploring and Adventuring[/I] thread, which if you think about it, makes a lot of sense in the big scheme of things. [U]As for my next set of cities:[/U] [B]Carthage[/B] – Once the jewel of the world and the Queen of Africa I think this must have been both an extremely handsome city and an immensely interesting one. Before being put to the sword and the torch by Rome. But the good thing about Carthage is that any game could locate so much there and make most things seem quite believable due to locale, and it’s clouded history. [B]Kiev[/B] – I have a sort of personal love and fascination with ancient and Medieval Kiev. From a small village upwards to the Great Gates, and beyond. It would make a superb frontier’s city and was visited by everyone from Asiatic steppe raiders to the Vikings and Rus, to the Byzantines, and German knights, and any number of other peoples. I can imagine it in some periods very much like a brawling and very rough American West mining encampment deep in Indian Territory during open hostilities. It would have been an interesting and brutal place to live for any number of reasons, not least of which was the clime. I was thinking about putting Troy here too, but I'm gonna put that in the Middle East, though that really doesn't feel right to me in some repsects. [/QUOTE]
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