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<blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 8790431" data-attributes="member: 54364"><p>The campaign idea, getting the PCs to work as cartographers, reminds me of a tale I read. (I can't remember the title of the history book but it was something like <em>The Making of France</em>.) </p><p></p><p>During the reign of, I think it was Louis XV so sometime in the early 1700's, it was decided that the government needed better maps of the country. They sent out a pair of surveyors. I think I have this right, 1 pair of guys to map all of France. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what? o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" /> Fast forward a few months and the surveyors are working somewhere out in the countryside when the local yokels, seeing these 2 men standing on a hill side surveying. Looking at the "weird, unnatural" surveyor's tools, they decide that the surveyors must be witches and set on them with torches and pitchforks, killing one of them.</p><p></p><p>Another danger inherent to cartographers: maps are vital to invading armies. Countries jealously guarded their own maps and considered people making maps of their country to be spies and dealt with them very harshly. </p><p></p><p>People who travelled regularly, especially merchants and sea captains, would have their own maps too of course. Maps they would have literally drawn themselves, or inherited. These were prize possessions. Things well worth stealing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrunkonDuty, post: 8790431, member: 54364"] The campaign idea, getting the PCs to work as cartographers, reminds me of a tale I read. (I can't remember the title of the history book but it was something like [I]The Making of France[/I].) During the reign of, I think it was Louis XV so sometime in the early 1700's, it was decided that the government needed better maps of the country. They sent out a pair of surveyors. I think I have this right, 1 pair of guys to map all of France. o_O Fast forward a few months and the surveyors are working somewhere out in the countryside when the local yokels, seeing these 2 men standing on a hill side surveying. Looking at the "weird, unnatural" surveyor's tools, they decide that the surveyors must be witches and set on them with torches and pitchforks, killing one of them. Another danger inherent to cartographers: maps are vital to invading armies. Countries jealously guarded their own maps and considered people making maps of their country to be spies and dealt with them very harshly. People who travelled regularly, especially merchants and sea captains, would have their own maps too of course. Maps they would have literally drawn themselves, or inherited. These were prize possessions. Things well worth stealing. [/QUOTE]
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