Vargaard

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Multnomah Falls, Oregon, USA

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"Jame Rowe: The Areth Version of the Toronto to Boston area is all a post-apocolyptic ruin where the Gamma World rules are in efffect. By the way, that's just the east-west range. The north-south extent is Newark New Jersy to just north of Montreal."

OK, I have just opened up a gate to Gamma World, somewhere in that general area.

The local nations in that area would be:

* Iroukia
* 7 Nation Confederacy (theory)
* Ojibwe

Note that 1 of the 7 Nations is ruled by an actual medusa!

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jamerowe1: thanks for the cool idea!

I've decided to start small, with one gate, and, then progress it from there.

The current year on Aerth is 1016, so we can backdate the opening of the gate to Gamma World to any time in history, (or, even the future!) that works out best.
There is a timeline for Gamma World that is published in Dragon magazine: "Before the Dark Years", Ward & Moore, 88(71). Thanks to: DragonDex.

Note that the timeline of Aerth && the real-world is parallel.
Right now, it is 2016 in the real-world, so it is 1016 on Aerth. (Aerth is always 1000 years behind).

This may seem to be a problem, but it isn't: the Gamma World that is being reached to by the Vargaard Gate exists in an alternate Prime Material Plane. (There are an infinite number of alternate Prime Material Planes, so, no worries. With regards to these, I'd suggest taking a look at the excellent Appendix I to Manual of the Planes, by Jeff Grubb).



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I would conjecture that a lot of the nations, if not all of them, are unaware of the gate. The gate itself (and, Yes, there may be a circle of linked gates, with a prime gate at the center) should be located underground, in an archetypical AD&D dungeon. Many of the lejends of the local people are, in fact, physically real, and, based on encounters with those who have come from beyond the Vargaard Gate, entering the wilderness of Vargaard through one of many access points.

More than happy to do such a thing.

In addition, there should be some gates to the BOOT HILL setting, in the southwest of Vargaard.

It would be nice to see a full conversion of GW/BH, to (A)D&D, one day.

For some reason, a network of gates appeals to me.
That is, a series of linked dungeons, with gates connecting the various dungeons, and, gates to elsewhere found in those dungeons.

I don't have a complete copy of GW here with me, but, if I did, I would start by listing out all of the monsters, and, convert them to AD&D.

With regards to other strangeness in on the Vargaardian continent, rumor has it that the Grey have been seen in the far southwest.
Basically, all of the weird things in the X-Files and Coast to Coast are true on Aerth. So, Yes, everything from the occasional UFO (some crash, resulting in S3 type adventures), to simple things like the sasquatch and the Loch Ness monster. From Nostradumus to Stonehenge, if it's weird and paranormal, you name it, and, it's there.

Getting back to Gamma World in Vargaard, let's say that after that first gate was opened, colonies were founded. Some kind of an apocalypse (biological warfare, chemical warfare, nuclear warfare, etc.) happened, and now there are ruins of colonies spread throughout the area that you mentioned. This all began with a single gate, and, around this center, other gates were opened, and, colonies formed around these outer gates. I'd be tempted to place ley lines, and have those gates occur at nexus points. Today, all that is left is the ruins of the Ancients. These places are considered forbidden by the local nations, but... that won't stop a brave and expeditious party of adventurers!

On a game level, one wants to be careful with the type and amount of technology that one includes in the game. There was a great article called "Hi-Tech Hijinks" in Dragon 114 that could be used as a guide. Again, I'd like to emphasize the monsters. It's also possible that there are locations to be found in the Subterranean Aerth, the Underdark.

This kind of genre-mixing happened a lot in the books that inspired AD&D. As well, there is a book called "Hiero's Journey" that I would love to read, one day.
Also of interest would be some of the books by Fred Saberhagen, listed in the DMG: "Changeling Earth" is a classic, and highly recommended.

The continent of Vargaard holds many interesting possibilities!

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Lejend has it that one of the Southwest Nations, Navajo(??) had had contact with the grey.
There is a lejend/rumor that they are extra-dimensional beings, but no one can prove anything, yet. (So far).

However, all evidence seems to indicate that they have physical bodies.

Lost time && paralysation.
Anal probes && implants.

What is the truth?
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