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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 8835866" data-attributes="member: 54629"><p>Oh sure. I can buy that people disbelieve reports of dragons. But news can travel faster by sea, and Kalaman is a major port city where <em>"merchants from across Ansalon"</em> do business. In fact, <em>"every day there’s a 10 percent chance a merchant ship from a distant land puts into port here, its crew eager to sell unique wares and tell tales of danger on the sea." </em>Why aren't those crews also telling tales of danger in the distant lands they came from?</p><p></p><p>The other thing is that this adventure involves a significant portion of the Red Dragon Army marching north from the mountains and crossing the Vingaard River in order to reach Vogler and the Northern Wastes. And yet, aside from reports of mysteriously burned villages, no one in Kalaman has any idea that a large army passed by recently. The Red Dragon Army must be <em>really </em>good at covering its tracks.</p><p></p><p>Ansalon isn't much bigger than Europe. It's always felt a bit far-fetched to me that, even three centuries after the Cataclysm, so many of the continent's inhabitants are so ignorant of other places. Even in Europe's Dark Ages, news still got around. As for Ansalon, take Tarsis: how come nobody's noticed that none of the famous "white-winged ships" have appeared in any ports in the past 350 years? Haven't any merchants come back to report that they couldn't reach Tarsis by the old routes?</p><p></p><p>This isn't an issue that's new to this adventure. It's just reminding me that this is something that's always bugged me about Dragonlance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 8835866, member: 54629"] Oh sure. I can buy that people disbelieve reports of dragons. But news can travel faster by sea, and Kalaman is a major port city where [I]"merchants from across Ansalon"[/I] do business. In fact, [I]"every day there’s a 10 percent chance a merchant ship from a distant land puts into port here, its crew eager to sell unique wares and tell tales of danger on the sea." [/I]Why aren't those crews also telling tales of danger in the distant lands they came from? The other thing is that this adventure involves a significant portion of the Red Dragon Army marching north from the mountains and crossing the Vingaard River in order to reach Vogler and the Northern Wastes. And yet, aside from reports of mysteriously burned villages, no one in Kalaman has any idea that a large army passed by recently. The Red Dragon Army must be [I]really [/I]good at covering its tracks. Ansalon isn't much bigger than Europe. It's always felt a bit far-fetched to me that, even three centuries after the Cataclysm, so many of the continent's inhabitants are so ignorant of other places. Even in Europe's Dark Ages, news still got around. As for Ansalon, take Tarsis: how come nobody's noticed that none of the famous "white-winged ships" have appeared in any ports in the past 350 years? Haven't any merchants come back to report that they couldn't reach Tarsis by the old routes? This isn't an issue that's new to this adventure. It's just reminding me that this is something that's always bugged me about Dragonlance. [/QUOTE]
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