Welcome to the RQ Alternate Earth Group. This is dedicated to the Alternate Earth setting for RuneQuest. What would be ideal is to be able to post background...
Atlantis sounds fun. You have a lot of freedom to determine which myths and legends will apply to the in-game Atlantis. Was Atlantis in the mediteranean sea?...
If we are trying to build a coherent whole, I suggest we start with an area that has known boundaries and general history. Atlantis might be the core that all...
steve@...
Apr 7, 2003 9:03 pm
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I have had some thoughts on Atlantis for a while, but I haven't had a chance to put them down. I haven't read GURPS - Atlantis, simply because I am a RQ-head...
... Any chance of seeing something on your LDS-based South/Central American stuff? How have you done it? When is it based? Have you got the Nephites and...
... with an ... be the ... should ... Homeric/Myceneaen Greece is a nice area, it has enough myths to keep us happy for ages, it is contemporary with cultures...
... My vote would be for Ancient Israel. What is the year in which we would be working? Cheers, John ===== "It is a shame that governments are chiefed by the...
... That's the beauty of Alternate Earth - we can write the same areas up in different eras. For Ancient Israel, I would prefer earlier than later. My...
Well I will have to start writing up my notes, but I have it set around 1200 AD so the nephites have been wiped out, and the lamanites have disintegrated into...
Dunno if it is any help, but I've read at least one theory that put Samson contemporaneous with the fall of Troy. Steve Perrin, onetime avid reader of...
steve@...
Apr 7, 2003 11:55 pm
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Nice analysis. I suggest one modification. Just because a culture is using something like bronze doesn't mean that everyone who flees a catastrophe knows how...
steve@...
Apr 8, 2003 12:29 am
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... I don't know....when were the Myceneans? The United Kingdom of Israel was from 1030?-931 B.C. and included the reigns of Saul (1030?-1009 B.C.), David ...
I am here as well. Already some great ideas; as soon as I've caught up I'll try and post some myself. Someone mentioned my adaptation of the Cradle scenario...
... around 1200 ... disintegrated ... Ah, so it is post BoM then. That makes things easier I suppose, no worrying about how to model the Nephites' Judaism in...
... That's a great starting point. Thanks. ... Reliable in that more than two people agree on them. I have seen so many Biblical chronologies in the past that...
Here's a random sampling of my thoughts on the topic of an Atlantis campaign. Although a small, cozy, Minoan-style setting would be fun, more and more I think...
One of the reasons I wanted to look at Atlantis first is because it is one place where there is no hard historical fact defining it. There is only rumor and ...
Evrything I've seen suggests that scholars can't even agree that it actually existed. Even less where it was. A mention by Plato of a story he heard from an ...
... wrote: [snip] ... so ... RQ ... Can ... worship ... I see the RQ system fitting together lots of cults of the Prophets in a mesh of associated spirit cults...
... wrote: [snip] ... rollicking, ... Blavatsky, ... Here, here! I'd like my Atlanteans as an Empire, myself. Maybe too nosy an empire that the PCs would be...
... I must confess that I am not familiar with the RQ rules. I play BRPs :). ... I don't think that people "worshipped" Moses or any of the later prophets....
... What about Crete? IIRC, some scholars have argued that the destruction of Ancient Crete may have been the source of the Atlantis myth. Cheers, John ===== ...
A recent television special argued that Atlantis was in the Carribean (sp?) and that Cuba was essentially its mountain range. It's an interesting theory that I...
steve@...
Apr 8, 2003 5:18 pm
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This is actually a 30-year old theory, though it still has its proponents. I suggest that our Atlanteans settled in the Aegean after the intial cataclysm and...
steve@...
Apr 8, 2003 5:20 pm
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Always keep in mind that the original commandment was "I am the god thy god, thou shalt hold no other gods before me." Nothing in that says that there are no...
steve@...
Apr 8, 2003 5:26 pm
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I had a primitive religions teacher in college who said that ALL religions are primitive... I actually addressed the monotheistic world in relation to RQ in...
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