Whatever happened to Northern Crown

jdrakeh said:
Might have been two (as I said, I think there were four). I didn't get all hot and bothered over Northern Crown until well after it disappeared from store shelves...
I just discovered Northern Crown within the last month or so. I've been reading through the two books, and I'm impressed. I'm a sucker for historical or psudo-historical settings, and this one is really cool.
 

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I got the books just last month too. Man, I hope the author keeps writing stuff. I just love the idea of an American based fantasy setting. Northern Crown is good. There is so much RPG stuff for traditional, medievil fantasy settings. Something different, and close to home is cool. It would sure be neat if more companies and writers hopped on this American-fantasy-setting thing so that it could expanded. Has anyone heard from NC's author, Doug Anderson, lately? What are his plans?
 



Dannyalcatraz said:
Not only that, there are modern writers with novels with settings that could aid a GM running an NC game.

Kurt R. A. Giambastiani has a series of books set in an alt-history USA during Custer's lifetime. Aided by working magic and tamed saurian steeds, Native Americans have stalled the expansion of European settlers into the western areas of the continent.

I believe Harry Turtledove & SM Stirling also have some alt-history novels with similar time settings.

Don't forget Orson Scott Card's Tales of Alvin Maker. The first three are really good.
 

I'd also like to add J. Gregory Keyes' "Newton's Cannon" quadrilogy. They are set in roughly the same time period in an alternate world where the Colonies are held back from further expansion by magic-wielding native Americans. A young Benjamin Franklin and a disreputable Voltaire are among the main cast as well as, of course, Sir Isaac Newton. Very nice series.
 


Northern Crown Adventures: d20 rpg based on a colonial America with fantasy elements. Instead of the thirteen colonies, there are countries formed from colonies of the "Uropan" powers. So, instead of North and South Carolina, there is Carolinga, ruled by the deposed King Charles. Instead of Virginia, there is Sophia, a country ruled by democracy and a bastion of the Enlightenment. There are native american tribes (the Cherokee, Ottawa, Iroquois, for example) who are great magic users and through their power have managed to check the advance of the Uropan powers to the east of the Appalachian mountains. Florida is controlled by the Espaniards, and the Caribbean has a mish mash of different powers controlling the islands.

The core classes have been tweeked: instead of a fighter you can play a soldier, which is similar exept that you pick infantry or dragoon or artillerist, and you get different abilities from those choices.

Nyambe is a d20 Africa-like setting written several years before NC and not affiliated with it. But NC incorporated the setting into its "world" and so you have many of the "races" available from the Nyambe setting who were brought to the new world by slavery.

I could go on and on with the love, but check out www.atlas-games.com and look up both settings.
 

Infernal Teddy said:
So what IS Northern Crown? Or Nyawhaterverthespellingwas?
Nyambe is fantasy Africa. It's got a core book, a monster book, a supplement of stuff and one adventure, all from Atlas.

Northern Crown is fantasy colonial America, with the headless horsemen, native peoples, 18th century technology-as-magic, witches, folklore, myth and so on.
 


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