Goodman Games

Many third sons of British uppity aristocracy, sons and daughters of the nouveau rich of the industrialist tycoons, and the emerging bourgeoisie seek adventures, fortune, and make a name for themselves.

where in the world is it still unexplored and unmapped?
Okay so inside China, and deep in side the rainforest of South America and mountain jungles of Africa but where else also?

Not enough for you? Try:

Pacific Islands: Post-Pacific War cargo cults, islands governed by mutineers, whalers, sea monsters, noble savages.

The Outback: Aborigines who go walkabout into the Scope, bunyips, drop bears, Lemurian artifacts, Uluru.

North Africa and Arabia: Nomads, T.E. Lawrence wannabes, deadly deserts and lost civilizations.

The Northwest Passage: Chart the freezing waters of the Arctic, Inuits, Aleuts, Laps, polar bears, whales, the Northern Lights, passage to the hollow earth.

Just off the top of my head.

I was planning to do an adventure based on the exploration of the North West passage actually. I just wanted more details than what is on page 187 in Etherscope.

We pretty much left that section open for the individual GM to fill in, based on what works for his or her campaign. (Sure, we could've populated it with lots of plot hooks, but that would've diminished the "exploration" angle, and we wanted to keep the focus in the core book on the campaign's home of the United Kingdom.)

As the Third Man said, though, there are plenty of possibilities if you do some research on Native American or Eskimo culture (manitous? wendigos?) or if you want to have your explorers find a dark passage deep in the Canadian wilderness...

--Ken

Goblin wrote:I was planning to do an adventure based on the exploration of the North West passage actually. I just wanted more details than what is on page 187 in Etherscope.

Alaska is still controlled by Russia. And, although it isn't very productive (just a bunch of useless petrol and moose), it has some tactical advantages. If the British were to try to create a transarctic route over Canada in order connect with the untapped wealth of Japan and China (or perhaps to their own Oceanic colonies) they'll certainly find some opposition from the Soviets. With Canada and Alaska both hot spots for weapons research, this could prove interesting.

I see Alaska, along with the other side of the pacific rim, being largely untamed desolate widernesses. However, the Soviet economy is built on high-tech scope industries, with a number of significant costal cities being pretty heavily populated and full of techie-nerd types. (think socialism meets computer geeks). As such I think the settled areas will stay relatively south (mainly outside the artic circle) and coastal, leaving masses of untamed wilderness.

Cheerio,

Ben