Re: (TFT) Goblin port

["Jay Carlisle" <Jay_Carlisle@charter.net>]

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From: "Chris Nicole"
Subject: Re: (TFT) Goblin port


> Jay,
> There was a lot of iron working in North Yorkshire (not much gold afaik).
>
> We visited Saltburn just south of Redcar.
> There is a stream there flowing bright orange with ochre from abandoned 
> iron ore mines.
>
> The following may be of use for mineral workings:
> http://www.mine-explorer.co.uk/

Hi Chris,
THANKS HEAPS for all the links.
This kind of thing helps cut days away from my odd google attempts at data.


> I'm not clear if you are setting your game in Roman Britain or 
> Pseudo-medieval Britain? Either way, things were very different then.

Aside points.
It's not so much a game as a method for producing adventures... in this case 
adventures involving highly militant situations in the gameworld.
I'm useing a pseudo-Roman history where I mirror most of the historical 
events for previous background to explain why things are so militant in the 
pseudo-medieval Britain I'm useing to answer even more fundamental questions 
about geography or geology.
Just the choice of location helps answer questions about what soil-types are 
available or what the weather trends might be.

> Your use of modern maps may be confusing things.
> For example, most of England's large forested areas were planted during 
> WW1 by the Forrestry commission. (We couldn't get pit props from the 
> Baltic so had to grow our own.) These are maturing nicely now the coal 
> mines are all closed.
>
> Many of our large modern cities were practically insignificant before the 
> industrial revolution. Many towns and settlements which were of great 
> importance in the medieval world are barely notable now. This is 
> particularly true for religious settlements. Abbeys and monastic 
> settlements were of immense importance as land owners and economic 
> developments before Henry VIII fell out with the Pope.

I have a VAGUE idea of this.
I know a little bit about "lost villages" across areas hit hard by the 
plague for example.
The idea here is to identify the areas that would tend to be population 
centers via the technology and population available to the culture/s trying 
to use it.
I know I'm not too far off when I put "pins" in Google Earth of small 
settelments in the area and they matchup well with land classifacations for 
the area given by government.
In general, good farmland is good farmland reguardless of weather or not the 
culture has the population to exploit it or not...

> Also, WE DON'T HAVE COUNTS. They're furriners.
> English counties were the province of an Earl or Duke.
> Except Durham which is a Bishopric. (province of the Prince Bishops)
> York and Lancaster are Duchies.
> Her Majesty the Queen is the Duke (not Duchess) of Lancaster.
> Prince Andrew is the Duke of York, Sarah Fergusson (Fergie) is the Duchess 
> of York.
> Gawd bless'em.

DOAH!
Jay's poor knowledge of legalieties shows through.
uhhhh...
http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/reference/estate.htm#freehold
I'm studing up on this but any help is surely appreciated.

Thanks Sir! 
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