Re: [DL] (Off topic) an idea for a new RPG alter Earth world

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

Hi,
    Interesting ideas.  But just what is your timeframe?  It isn't entirely
clear from your posting.  This is relevant as Napoleon was born in 1769
which makes him a little young to be involved in the American Revolution.
Obviously, you could alter the date of Napoleon's birth if necessary.  Also,
I am under the impression the term "New France" referred mostly to what is
now Eastern Canada plus bits of the Northern U.S.  New Orleans was part of a
separate colony, Louisiana.
    As another idea, you might want to check out Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's
Devil which chronologically ends his Sharpe's series with an adventure
involving a scheme to free Napoleon from St Helena and bring him to South
America in order that he help the people of South America throw off the
Spanish yoke.  While the aventure occurs at the end of Napoleon's life, it
does shed some light on what type of man Napoleon was.
    As a side note, the Sharpe series are very good in explaining land
warfare around 1800.  For naval affairs, you could do worse than looking up
Dewey Lambdin's Alan Lewrie books which are much more amusing than
Hornblower.
          Daniel
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all."
     Hamlet, Act III, scene i.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Vault Keeper <vaultkeeper@dupuis.shawbiz.ca>
À : deadlands@gamerz.net <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Date : September 13, 2002 9:02 PM
Objet : Re: [DL] (Off topic) an idea for a new RPG alter Earth world




> Hi,
>     A couple of suggestions.  First off, as a historian, I would strongly
> suggest you do your research on the real history of the time and pay very
> close attention to the fact that in essence the outcome of the war was due
> to the intervention of European powers.  Try to understand how the forces
at
> work in Europe play out in the New World and just how "British" Washington
> and company actually were.  Furthermore, you might want to expand your
focus
> to look at the other European colonies in the New World, i.e. the colonies
> that later united to become Canada, Latin America and the Carribbean.  Try
> not to focus just on what is now the U.S.  If you really want to have fun,
> why move up the date of the South America revolutions?
>     The reason I am saying this is that one of my private peeves about the
> background of Deadlands is that it downplays the power of the British
Empire
> to an absurd extent without giving sufficient information as to why.
> Admittedly, the focus of the game is concentrated in the American West and
> therefore far removed from the Limeys, but then the game also has the
French
> Foreign Legion and Chinese martial artists.  Therefore, I would like to
> suggest that you try and get a feel for the true historical background
> before you invent a new one.
>     My second suggestion is you start deviating from real history at the
> Battle of Chesapeake Bay.  The British lost the battle to the French owing
> to some terrible stupidity.  They could easily have won.  Had they done
so,
> Cornwallis would not have lost at Yorktown.
>     My third suggestion is that you remember war is very costly.  The
Ancien
> Régime in French went broke paying for the American Independence and the
> French Revolution was the result.
>     My two cents worth.
>           Daniel
> "Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all."
>      Hamlet, Act III, scene i.


That's good sugestions, I could call the RPG Revolution since this was the
age of it.

Also if you remember your history before Napoleon stomped threw Europe, he
wanted to create a Western Empire in North America so in Revolution he is in
New Orleans which is part of New France. Officialy he here to help the
American rebels, unofficial he here to create his Western Empire.

Also in the world Bendictt Arnold turncoat move succeed,



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