Steve Jackson Games official fantasy setting from 2e on has been a myth-parallel of Earth called Yrth.
GURPS: Fantasy for 2e and 3e; GURPS: Banestorm for 4e.
One possibility for the players has been to play themselves captured by the Banestorm and transported to Yrth.
Humans were sucked up by the Banestorm from 1050 through 1300, in large enough numbers to found nation-states and displace the native Elves and Dwarves.
The players always assume that because the predominate language in the Christian nations is Anglish that they have a decent chance of speaking intelligibly with the natives.
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Anglish isn't English from today. Heck, with the same sort of drift over a similar timeframe Latin became French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
I did succeed in speaking in a biblical enough fashion as an NPC to utterly baffle the players and get them to really understand that they weren't going to be blending in, even if they brought their SCA garb!
GURPS: Fantasy for 2e and 3e; GURPS: Banestorm for 4e.
One possibility for the players has been to play themselves captured by the Banestorm and transported to Yrth.
Humans were sucked up by the Banestorm from 1050 through 1300, in large enough numbers to found nation-states and displace the native Elves and Dwarves.
The players always assume that because the predominate language in the Christian nations is Anglish that they have a decent chance of speaking intelligibly with the natives.
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The Christian nations of Yrth speak Anglish, a language evolved from medieval English with heavy outside influences, mostly Norman-French.Now, watch this:
Anglish isn't English from today. Heck, with the same sort of drift over a similar timeframe Latin became French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
I did succeed in speaking in a biblical enough fashion as an NPC to utterly baffle the players and get them to really understand that they weren't going to be blending in, even if they brought their SCA garb!