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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3244802" data-attributes="member: 19675">1)Thanks for the correction on the Rary/Murlynd confusion!2) Another idea from Harry Turtledove: at one point in the series, a certain military force enters another country with an eye towards using it as a strategic base, only to find that the Gods of that area inhibit their magics, rendering them impotent.In a campaign like this, that concept could be applied to the concept of &quot;Sacred Ground.&nbsp; The gods of the region would consecrate a place so that no magic and no tech beyond muscle-powered weapons (IOW, the PHB equipment list) function.3)Well, in a real sense, the settlers were bad guys...but no more bad than the tribes that warred between themselves.&nbsp; They just had better tech.But I understand what you mean- the traditional Western was written for Europeans/Americans by Europeans/Americans, with the whole &quot;Manifest Destiny&quot; thing taken as given.&nbsp; Those that dealt with the conflict betweens settlers and Native Americans did so almost exclusively from the pro-settler viewpoint.OTOH, FRPGs consistently gloss over the ramifications of the feudal political system, including how few people actually carried anything better than (in D&amp;D terms) Simple weapons by law, or the number of female adventurers, so such a revision is not completely without precedence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 3244802, member: 19675"] 1)Thanks for the correction on the Rary/Murlynd confusion! 2) Another idea from Harry Turtledove: at one point in the series, a certain military force enters another country with an eye towards using it as a strategic base, only to find that the Gods of that area inhibit their magics, rendering them impotent. In a campaign like this, that concept could be applied to the concept of "Sacred Ground. The gods of the region would consecrate a place so that no magic and no tech beyond muscle-powered weapons (IOW, the PHB equipment list) function. 3) Well, in a real sense, the settlers [I]were [/I]bad guys...but no more bad than the tribes that warred between themselves. They just had better tech. But I understand what you mean- the traditional Western was written for Europeans/Americans by Europeans/Americans, with the whole "Manifest Destiny" thing taken as given. Those that dealt with the conflict betweens settlers and Native Americans did so almost exclusively from the pro-settler viewpoint. OTOH, FRPGs consistently gloss over the ramifications of the feudal political system, including how few people actually carried anything better than (in D&D terms) Simple weapons [I]by law[/I], or the number of female adventurers, so such a revision is not completely without precedence. [/QUOTE]

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