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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7733940" data-attributes="member: 6925649">Muskets are inaccurate at long ranges, and there would be cannon as well. I'm not sure the Spaniards won't get a hold of some dragons and domesticate them for their own purposes. The World political situation is somewhat beyond the scope of individual PCs, unless the PCs carve out their own countries and become political players themselves. I mean who really cares about the King of Spain or the chieftain of the Aztec Empire? I think the PCs are likely to be out for themselves and follow their own agendas tangential to either power player. I think if I was a PC in this setting, I would play an English privateer, you see the English don't have any colonies in the New World at this time. 1514 was the time of King Henry VIII, England was quite busy at this time, but there were some pirates.<img src="https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.S5aVdBdZUEMZD-rYH_L5hQHaI3&w=202&h=242&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />England was too busy to sponsor colonies, but that doesn't mean some individuals couldn't do it.Many factors contributed to Britain's tardiness. England was not the most powerful European nation in the 16th century. Spain was most influential. Along with Portugal, Spain dominated New World exploration in the decades that followed Columbus. France, the Netherlands, and Sweden all showed greater interest in the Western Hemisphere than England did.   From this web site: <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/us/2.asp" target="_blank">http://www.ushistory.org/us/2.asp</a>                                 [h=3]"Late Expectations[/h]<img src="http://www.ushistory.org/us/images/00005634.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />One of England's most adventurous sea captains, Sir Walter Raleigh was granted a charter in 1584 to seek out new lands.A voyage by John Cabot on behalf of English investors in 1497 failed to spark any great interest in the New World. England was divided in the 1500s by great religious turmoil. When Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church in 1533, decades of religious strife ensued. Finally, under Henry's daughter Elizabeth, the English were prepared to stake their claims.Although England was an island and therefore a seafaring nation, Spain was the undisputed superpower of the seas in the 16th century. Many of England's adventurous sea captains found that plundering Spanish ships was a far simpler means of acquiring wealth than establishing colonies."The English had no colonies in 1514 and thus are not a part of the conflict between the Spaniards and the Native Americans, other than to plunder Spanish ships laden with gold. So how does dragons and magic affect this situation?</blockquote>

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