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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jorunkun" data-source="post: 4041751" data-attributes="member: 57929">I once spent a good year researching and planning but never playing a campaign set in Northumbria (Yorkshire area) shortly after William's invasion of 1066. In fact, I can still name every river and town in the Yorkshire Dales, though I've never been to the region. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />What I found so attractive about this period and location is that you can draw on all these layers of British history; from celtic /pictish/ briton myth (elves, halflings, druidism) to roman (dwarven) ruins to anglo-saxon (human) and viking/norse (orc-ish?) lords now fighting off norman invaders ... I had in mind an outlaw campaign, where the PCs would have rallied and eventually united the diverse nationalities living in the north, culminating in an all out war of liberation which, unlike real history, would have stood a chance at success. Thematically, I was aiming for something between Ars Magics's Mythical Europe, the TV-series' Robin Hood and Cornwell's "Winter King" series.I'm still in love with this setting, but it turned out to be too hard to get my players excited about it, who were more into the fantastic elements of D&D than the more mundane fruits of my historic research.</blockquote>

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