Re: Digest Number 1704

From: kmnellist_at_...
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 05:26:52 EDT


In a message dated 21/05/04 20:31:44 GMT Daylight Time, HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com writes:

One final note on the political map thing: Obviously having shown the borders in that set didn't scar the whole community too badly, if nobody arguing against showing borders seemed to even recall that they had in fact been shown once--or maybe you were just trying to hide this heretical knowledge? ;-)

For more heretical knowledge: most of the maps from the Fortunate Succession are political maps, with borders changing with apparent rapidity. If the whole thing were animated and in colour we would see throbbing blobs of colour expanding, contracting and disappearing. FWIW, I ran a game based around claims to ownership of land, various means were used to claim ownership, written legal documents, oral traditions, voices from the spirit world, "my sword is bigger than your sword", etc. It made me think of the various methods that define who owns land. Keith

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