Re: (TFT) Hirst Arts Melee/Wizard Arena

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Antigua:

21 degrees N, 62 degrees W. Colonized in the 1640s, this island is a
small pleasant backwater with a classic plantation economy. In the
18th Century it will become one of the two great navel base for the
British Royal Navy in the Caribbean.

Barbados:

18 degrees N, 59 degrees W. The first major English colony in the
Caribbean (in the 1620s), Barbados is the economic capital of the
Caribbee Islands (Lesser Antilles) throughout the middle and later
parts of the 17th Century.  Caribbean traders will find European goods
numerous and the selling price of tobacco and sugar quite good.

Belize:

21 degrees N, 88 degrees W. This small but hardy settlement of logwood
cutters appears in the 1680's in a region conceded to be Spanish, but
as yet uncolonized. Its stubborn presence will cause diplomatic
problems for decades to come.

Bermuda:

30 degrees N, 65 degrees W. Settled in the 1640s, Bermuda built its
early economy on shipwrecks, thanks to the many treacherous reefs that
surround the tiny island.

Borburata:

16 degrees N, 67 degrees W. This modes city on the Spanish Main is
noteworthy only in the late 16th Century. Thereafter it is sublimated
in the growing power and importance of Caracas.

Campeche:

23 degrees N, 90 degrees W. A well-established "old" Spanish city with
aristocratic tastes, Campeche is an important port serving the inland
provinces of southern New Spain and Yucatan. European goods fetch good
prices here.

Caracas:

16 degrees N, 66 degrees W. This city rises to prominence at the end
of the 16th Century. It is the main port for inland farms and
plantations, and home of many important Spanish families, who have
expensive tastes in European goods.

Cartagena:

16 degrees N, 75 degrees W. This is the largest port city of the
Spanish Main, and after the 1590s a supposedly impregnable fortress.
Here the treasure fleet winters before its return voyage via Havana
and the Florida Channel. It has a powerful garrison of troops and a
thriving economy with little need for illegal trade and smuggling.

Coro:

17 degrees N, 70 degrees W. This small city on the east side of the
Gulf of Venezuela thrives in the 16th Century, but after the 1600s it
is overshadowed by the new ports to the east. During its brief heyday
Coro is a good source of hides and tobacco.

Cumana:

16 degrees N, 64 degrees W. The main port city of New Andalusia, it
forms the eastern anchor of the Spanish Main, the last major harbor
and fortress. It is a good market for European goods. This does not
prevent it from indulging in smuggling and other nefarious pursuits
from time to time.

Curacao:

17 degrees N, 69 degrees W. First used in the 1620s, this island
becomes a great free port under Dutch control. Spanish produce
smuggled from everywhere along the Main are bought here by Dutch
merchants, who happily exchange them for European products that can be
profitable smuggled to the Spanish.

Eleuthera:

26 degrees N, 76 degrees W. At first just an anchorage for privateers,
Eleuthera becomes and English colony eventually. In the 17th Century
it really never grows, remaining a backwater haven for pirates,
privateers, and the other riff-raff who hide among the Bahamas.

Florida Channel:

26 degrees N, 80 degrees W. The powerful Gulf Stream current has cut
this channel along the southeast coast of Florida, forming a safe path
past the Bahaman shoals. Each year in the spring or summer the Spanish
treasure fleet passes up this channel from Havana, bound for the North
Atlantic Westerlies and the trip home.

Florida Keys:

26 degrees N, 81 degrees W. Among this chain of tiny islands and reefs
are transitory anchorages for privateers of varying nationalities. No
permanent colonies are found here - it is too close to powerful
Spanish Havana.

Gibraltar:

15 degrees N, 71 degrees W. This city is a modest-size port for the
inland farms and plantations of Caracos province. The horrifying rape
and pillage of the city by L'Ollonais and again by Morgan destroyed
its economic vitality, making it a nonentity by the 1680s.

Gran Granada:

17 degrees N, 86 degrees W. Situated on the shores of Lake Nicaragua,
this is the largest and wealthiest city of the Honduran provinces.

Grand Bahama:

28 degrees N, 79 degrees W. This island in the northern Bahamas is
used periodically as a privateering anchorage. It does not become an
English colony until the very end of the era.

Grenada:

17 degrees N, 61 degrees W. A group of English colonists attempt
settlement here in the 1600s, but fail and the colony disappears by
the 1620s.

Guadeloupe:

20 degrees N, 61 degrees W. Colonized by the French, Guadeloupe
becomes economically viable in the 1640s. Along with Martinique it is
the cornerstone of French power in the eastern Caribbean. In the 1660s
its fortress and garrison are increased as part of France's new
interest in overseas colonization.

Havana:

25 degrees N, 82 degrees W. One of the old cities of Cuba, during the
middle 16the Century it grew rapidly because the Treasure Fleet used
its harbor for a last provisioning before the dangerous journey back
to Spain. Havana is a rich town where all mercantile activity is done
strictly according to law.  Prices are extremely high.

Isabella:

23 degrees N, 71 degrees W. This tiny port town was initially
established by Columbus himself, but fades in and out of existence as
disease takes its toll. At the start of the 17th Century it is
officially abandoned by the Spanish Government, its residents forced
to resettle around Santo Domingo.

La Vega:

22 degrees N, 71 degrees W. This smuggler's haven of the early and
middle 17th Century serves the inland ranches and farms of northern
Hispaniola. Prices are low and the law nonexistent, save the law you
make with the point of your sword.

Leogane:

22 degrees N, 73 degrees W. One of the new French buccaneer ports of
the 1660s, Leogane serves the unofficial but rapidly growing French
presence in western Hispaniola.

Maracaibo:

16 degrees N, 72 degrees W. This is the chief port on the Gulf of
Venezuela and guardian of the Maracaibo Lagoon (also known as Lake
Maracaibo). As such it has more than its share of aristocratic
families, with expensive tastes in European fashion.

Margarita:

17 degrees N, 63 degrees W. In the early 16th Century this island was
one of the richest pearl fisheries in the world. Unfortunately, the
pearl beads are now fished out. Margarita is a shadow of its former
wealth, with ports abandoned and many families moving to bigger and
richer mainland cities, such as Cumana an Caracas.

Martinique:

19 degrees N, 61 degrees W. Colonized by the French, Martinique
becomes economically viable in the 1640s. With Guadeloupe it is the
cornerstone of French power in the eastern Caribbean. In the 1660s its
fortress and garrison are increased as part of France's new interest
in overseas colonization.

Montserrat:

21 degrees N, 62 degrees W. This English colony, founded around 1640,
remains one of small plantations and gentleman farming, a pleasant
port of call with no especially important characteristics save low
prices.

Nassau:

26 degrees N, 77 degrees W. Since the mid 16th Century this Bahaman
island has been a pirate anchorage. An English colony, officially
begun in the 1680s, soon degenerates into a loud, squalid pirate haven
full of verminous and evil men. The port is named "New Providence", to
distinguish it from Providence Island ("Old Providence").

Nevis:

21 degrees N, 63 degrees W. This pleasant island, separated from St.
Kitts by a narrow channel, was populated by the English at about the
same time - the 1620s. While St. Kitts becomes a port of some
importance, Nevis remains more agricultural, with pleasant plantations
rolling across sun-drenched mountainsides.

Nombre Dios:

15 degrees N, 79 degrees W. This town is the Caribbean port for Panama
and Peru throughout the 16th Century. However, it is sited in an
unhealthy swamp, is almost impossible to fortify, and is plundered
mercilessly by English sea hawks. At the end of the 16th Century it is
abandoned and a new port (Puerto Bello) established nearby.

Panama:

15 degrees N, 80 degrees W. This large city links the wealth Spanish
realms of Peru with the Caribbean. All trade with Peru is by ship on
the Pacific coast, with Panama the terminus. Panama is linked to a
Caribbean port (Nombre de Dios in the 16th Century, Puerto Bello in
the 17th) by a mule train over the mountains of the Darien Isthmus.

Petit Goave:

22 degrees N, 73 degrees W. Among the many small and informal French
Huguenot settlements on the Western Hispaniola, this is the first (in
the 1620s) to gain repute as an important port. but as the 17th
Century continues, planters and plantation lords push out the rude
buccaneers, gradually civilizing the raw colonial frontier.

Port-de-Paix:

23 degrees N, 73 degrees W. This later French Huguenot settlement
becomes a significant port in the 1660s, and by the 1680s is the
informal capital of the French colonies in the Western Hispaniola

Port Royale:

21 degrees N, 77 degrees W. In a natural harbor on southeast Jamaica
lies a curving spit and sandbar. By 1660, just five years after the
English conquest of Jamaica, the spit is covered by Port Royale, a
booming, rollicking, buccaneer town. Its reputation was so evil that
when an earthquake destroyed it at the end of the Century, colonials
and Europeans alike considered it an act of divine justice.

Puerto Cabello:

16 degree N, 68 degrees W. This secondary port along the Spanish Main
is a city of note through the 1620s. Ultimately, however, Caracas
takes most of its business, while the new Dutch free port at Curacao
destroys the rest.

Puerto Principe:

24 degrees N, 78 degrees W. This was one of the first cities on Cuba.
It represents the strengths of Spanish America: a wealthy city
surrounded by ranches and a cattle economy.

Providence:

18 degrees N, 82 degrees W. Also known as "Old Providence", it is
first settled by an English colonial venture in 1620. The tiny island
quickly becomes a base for privateers and pirates operating deep in
the Spanish Main. The island is such a danger to Spain that a major
expedition is mounted in 1640 to recapture it. This is successful, and
to this day the island remains known by what the Spanish renamed it:
Santa Catalina.

Puerto Bello:

15 degrees N, 80 degrees W. By 1600 this city replaces abandoned
Nombre de Dios as the Caribbean port for Panama and the Viceroyalty of
Peru. Each year, when the Treasure Fleet arrives to pick up the
Peruvian silver, Puerto Bello becomes a rich boom town. Weeks later,
when the fleet departs for Cartagena, it lapses into malarial
somnolence once more.

Rio de la Hacha:

17 degrees N, 73 degrees W. This is one of the two major ports for the
Colombian highlands (Santa Marta is the other). It does a thriving
trade in export goods: first hides, then tobacco.

San Juan:

22 degrees N, 66 degrees W. This is the great port city of Puerto
Rico, and one of the most powerfully fortified of all cities in
Spanish America. San Juan was settled early and remains a bastion of
old Spanish aristocracy. Prices for all goods except food are high,
and most times Spanish law is vigorously enforced. Ultimately it
becomes a base for Costa Guarda raids on the Caribees.

Santa Catalina:

18 degree N, 82 degrees W. When Spaniards take Providence Island from
the English in the 1640s, they rename it Santa Catalina. Although the
island is valueless to Spain, a garrison is maintained to prevent it
from falling into English hands once more.

Santo Domingo:

22 degrees N, 70 degrees W. This is the great capital city of
Hispaniola, one of the largest and oldest in the entire American
Empire of Spain. In the 17th Century its power and importance are
fading, but the Spanish aristocrats and ranchers remain vigorous
enough to defeat an English invasion in 1655 (disappointed, the
English invade and conquer Jamaica instead).

Santa Marta:

17 degrees N, 74 degrees W. Along with Rio de la Hacha, this is the
other principal port serving the Colombian highlands. Large farmsteads
nearby mean this city has low food prices, as well as reasonably
priced hides and tobacco.

Santiago:

23 degrees N, 76 degrees W. This is the original capital city of Cuba,
and remains a large, strong city until very late in the era. Like all
the great Spanish  cities, prices are high while Spanish trade law is
vigorously enforced.

Santiago de la Vega:

21 degrees N, 77 degrees W. This is the main Spanish town on Jamaica
before the English conquest. Spanish Jamaica was a tiny backwater, of
little economic or military importance.

St. Augustine:

30 degrees N, 81 degrees W. Originally a French colony in 1560, Spain
attacks and captures it, massacring the Frenchmen and establishing
their own fortress and garrison to discourage other Europeans. St.
Augustine is of such small importance that nobody bothers to dispute
Spain's ownership.

St. Christophe:

21 degrees N, 63 degrees W. First colonized in the 1620s by a
combination of Frenchmen and Englishmen, the Frenchmen are ascendant
on the island in the early days. Later the English predominate and
their spelling of the name is commonly used: St. Kitts.

St. Eustatius:

21 degrees N, 63 degrees W. Settled in the 1640s by the Dutch, this
island becomes one of the great free trade ports in the heyday of
Dutch mercantilism.  Unfortunately, its poor defenses and powerful
English and French neighbors make it one of the most fought-over
islands. The political and military turmoil badly damage the economy.

St. Kitts:

21 degrees N, 63 degrees W. By the 1640s the English gain the upper
hand on St. Christophe. When the English are predominant, this English
name for the island is commonly used. The island develops a
significant port that does a thriving trade with all nationalities.

St. Lucia:

19 degrees N, 61 degrees W. English colonists settled here in
preference to South America in the 1600s, but were quickly wiped out
by their own ineptitude and the ferocious Carib Indians.

St. Martin:

22 degrees N, 63 degrees W. This island is colonized by the Dutch in
the 1640s. It remains a quiet, peaceful plantation isle for the
remainder of the 17th Century.

St. Thome:

15 degrees N, 61 degrees W. This tiny town, deep inland along the
Orinoco River, acquires a small Spanish garrison about 1600. This is
in response to Sir Walter Raleigh's abortive expeditions up-river.

Tortuga:

23 degrees N, 73 degrees W. First settled by French buccaneers and
Huguenots in the 1620s, it is built up and fortified into a great
pirate base of the 1640s and '60s. Despite Spanish attacks, it
survives as long as the buccaneers and pirates remained strong, but
disappears as their power wanes.

Trinidad:

16 degrees N, 61 degrees W. Theoretically a Spanish colony, this
island never has a large population, nor much of a Spanish government
and garrison.  Its heyday as a smuggler's paradise is in the first
years of the 1600s.

Vera Cruz and San Juan de Ulua Harbor:

23 degrees N, 96 degrees W. This city with its island anchorage is the
main port for the great inland Viceroyalty of New Spain (also known as
Mexico). Once a year, when the treasure fleet arrives, this otherwise
unhealthy city becomes a rich boom town.

Villa Hermosa:

22 degrees N, 93 degrees W. This inland city is the capital of Tobasco
province, a southerly but nonetheless rich region of New Spain.

Yaguana:

22 degrees N, 72 degrees W. In the 16th Century this town is a small
port serving the Spanish west coast of Hispaniola. It is officially
abandoned and its population deported at the end of the century as a
punishment for excessive smuggling.


My Campaign is set in south Oceania, (even the Arch Wizards house can see the Pacific) but I'll use these cities as examples for the List.
St Augustine is northernmost, and Barbados is southernmost and easternmost, with Vera Cruz westernmost.
All that map information is approximate.
Land parties exactly on these spots and they'll have to do some hoofing to get to some of the towns.
I can fit 14.5 to 30.5 degrees north by 59 to 80 degrees west on one page graph. 

Okay, this next is just a throw away probably, but it's a silly little thing that's gotten me some lauds so I'll type out the page from notes.

Aries - Leo, Sagittarius, Taurus, Pisces, Cancer, Virgo
Mars
March/April
Idealistic, frank
Enjoys luxury, anal

Taurus - Aries, Gemini, Scorpio, Pisces
Venus
April/May
Loyal, efficient
Stubborn, touchy

Gemini - Libra, Aquarius, Taurus, Cancer, Sagittarius
Mercury
May/June
Flexible, tolerant
Moody, flaky

Cancer - Scorpio, Pisces, Capricorn, Aquarius, Gemini
Moon
June/July
Intuitive, patient
Sensitive, tenacious

Leo - Aries, Sagittarius, Cancer, Virgo
Sun
July/August
Courageous, gallant
Aims high, discriminating

Virgo - Leo, Libra, Aries
Mercury
August/September
Charming, perceptive
Perfectionists, over-blunt

Libra - Aquarius, Gemini, Virgo, Scorpio
Venus
September/October
Balanced, unselfish
High-maintenance, Uncompromising

Scorpio - Libra, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Taurus
Pluto
October/November
Resourceful, dynamic
Hot headed, intolerant

Sagittarius - Leo, Aries, Gemini, Capricorn, Scorpio
Jupiter
November/December
Honest, Energetic
Freedom loving, self-reliant

Capricorn - Taurus, Virgo, Sagittarius, Aquarius
Saturn
December/January
Magnetic, dedicated
Un-swayed, myopic

Aquarius - Libra, Gemini, Capricorn, Pisces, Aquarius
Uranus
January/February
Inventive, industrious
Independent, bleeding-heart

Pisces - Aries, Capricorn, Taurus
Neptune
February/March
Religious, curious
Religious, cynical


This isn't trying to introduce astrology into the game.
I DO have a book I use, but it's for inspiration for the personalities.

I find that often times players will end up interacting with a NPC that I didn't figure to be playing such a prominent role.     

I roll a birthday, then base the NPC's personality from the above.
Oops!
My Fair Lady trumps my evening it seems.
King Rex!

"I'd prefer a new edition
Of the Spanish Inquisition
Than to ever let a woman in my life!

Ha!

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!



With a little bit
O luck
With a little bit
O luck
You won't have to work
Just write a game!

With a lil' bit o' bloomin' luck!

Mr. Alfred P. Doolittle!
The most original moral philosopher in England.

Okay they're at the races...
A great example of a failed Courtly Graces check.

Okay the whole, let's kill things for fun, even imaginary, is pretty rotten.
I'm fine with it in a room full of consenting adults.
With healthy minds...
I ain't gonna inspire a Dhamer if'n "I" can help it.
I'm putting out full blow Athletics, as partial compensation for taking a more civilized attitude to "hack and slash" gaming.
Also, killing gains a lot of dramatic "punch" when they take it a little more seriously.

In butchering any bilaterally symmetrical, carbon based, macroscopic, indoskelatal animal, these are the seven basic cuts of meat, or hit locations.
Blade cuts are off the shoulder around the blade bone.
Rib cuts are off the back and sides of the rib cage around the rib bones.
Loin cuts come off the back between the rib cage and the hips around the backbone.
Sirloin cuts are off the hips around the hipbone.
Round cuts, and hams, come off the legs around the femurs.
Breast cuts come from the front of the ribs, or short plate, and the belly.
Arm cuts from the upper arms. (My Man-marries are briskets for example)

This is a handy reference for hurting things because much of the point of "slash" style blade fighting is about severing major mussel groups thus rendering the limb useless.
Bleeding is the "first" aid part.

Maces and Mauls, etc. do the same thing, only more focused on bones than mussel groups.
Heavier and longer means more force to get to the bones, but slower to wield with the same ST.
Of course there's a limit to such things, ...
That's right..... if I recall there's something about this in Mr. Smiths stuff....
Giant ST...

"There's just a few more hours,
a few more precious hours..."

"London is waking...
Morning is breaking.
Good luck old friend,
Good health.
Goodbye."

I'm sure most of the list is singing "I can do without you" at this point.
LOVELY, Singing in the Rain" afterwards...

Ted Turner is trying to distract me and it's working...

Make 'em Laugh.

O'Connor wasn't quite Danny Kaye, but MAN could that guy hoof!




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