At 06:51 PM 4/6/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>etc. As I said recently with regard to animals, players and GMs are
>inevitably going to tend to go with stuff they are familiar with when
>thinking of analogies (if not, why bother with analogies at all?) and
>its unlikely to be a major problem if you envisage it 'wrong'. As long
>as the whole gaming group is on the same page, anyway.
This is actually my perspective as well. There was a time when I would have
liked to classify and visualize every hill and pass on the wisdom. Now, I
try not to get in the way of the Narrator. Certainly some places and
special and specific, and I'll do my best to portray my vision of them. But
the Narrator can't be "wrong" doing whatever he wants to enhance his story.
That said:
>> I have always modeled Quiviniland on the Pennines of north-central
>> England,
>Me too,
I have been to the Pennines, and I will assure you that the Quivini Peaks at least are real mountains: high and steep. So they are an exception, but I'd say the surrounding hills do bear a similarity to the Pennines.
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