Some of your campaign settings are incompatible with each other. The pharaohs of Egypt ceased to exist long before the Islamic caliphates and at one time, France was part of the Holy Roman Empire. The Muslim faith is partly based upon the Jewish faith and partly based upon the Christian faith.
We weren't going for historical accuracy. It was about using everything we could and throwing it in a melting pot and seeing what we came up with.
Throwing a variety of historic periods into the same stew pot works only if it is impossible for people to travel from one area to another. In the case of the Holy Roman Empire and Renaissance France, the two campaign settings were separated by the Rhine River. While the current of the Rhine is swift and the water is cold, crossing it is not impossible. The pharaohs with their polytheism would have been very incompatible with the monotheism of Islam: just look at the history of the Crusades and the savage bloodshed resulting from one monotheistic faith(Christianity) bumping into another monotheistic faith(Islam). At least, Tolkien made it clear that during (and after) the Third Age of Middle Earth, that passage to the Undying Lands was a one-way voyage.
The first incarnation of "Battlestar Galactica" (the one with Lorne Greene), in its final season, had the fleeing human survivors finally finding the lost human colony on Earth (modern day Earth) with the Cylons hot on their trail, forcing the Colonial survivors to consider whether it was right to include the people of Earth in the ongoing war with the Cylons.
Thus, if you REALLY want your Spell jammer ship and crew to drop down into Earth's atmosphere, be prepared for a whole boatload of questions like how the various nations of Earth respond to such a visitation.
That depends on when in Earth's history it arrives.
Indeed, when does that Spell jamming ship arrive?
Does it swoop into the air space over London during the Battle of Britain in 1940? Does it swoop into the air space over Berlin during one of daytime bombing raids in 1944? Does it swoop over Roswell during the 1950's and be listed as a Very Unfriendly Flying Object? Does it swoop over ancient Baghdad of the year 200 A.D. and be hailed as an arrival of one of the gods of the Mideast? Does it swoop over Washington D.C. in the year 2040 A.D. and be blasted by a series of surface to air missiles?
For my BECMI/1E/2E hybrid game Earth is both its own alternate Prime and its own Crystal Sphere (we went with each sphere is its own alternate, so adapting 5E philosgen/astral was rather easy we dint change a thing. )
now Earth is as follows
Holy Roman Empire / Arthurian England /Renaissance France / Norse Vikings / Egyptian Pharaohs / Islamic Caliphates / Zhou & Ming Dynasties
As you can see it can quite a mix, it’s very low magic world, and burning at the stake happens to pcs……… oops
Some of your campaign settings are incompatible with each other. The pharaohs of Egypt ceased to exist long before the Islamic caliphates and at one time, France was part of the Holy Roman Empire. The Muslim faith is partly based upon the Jewish faith and partly based upon the Christian faith.
Actually I don’t see any real ncompatabilities. Yes in our world they were from different time periods and some of them overlapped but all could easily be placed in a mostly European setting: Holy Roman Empire -Germany-Austro-Hungary, the non Spanish Hapsburg empire Arthurian England - Romano-British - including Cornwall, Wales, Southern Scotland and possibly Normandy and Brittany Rennaisance France - roughly 1400s not 1600s, France and parts of Italy. City states and competing duchies with a mostly powerless central authority ( the king is in name only but is one of the duchies. Norse Vikings - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the Vikings Rus. Egypt - Palestine, Egypt, Libya and northern Sudan. Instead of being conquered they returned to a Ptolemaic dynasty with the break up of the Roman Empire and defeated the Arab attempts at conquest. islamic Caliphates - 2 seperate Caliphates in competition with each other. First the Eurasian caliphate of Iraq, Iran and turkey. Second the Spanish Caliphate of Spain and western North Africa. Zhou and Ming Dynasties - basically a late warring states situation in the far east.
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Throwing a variety of historic periods into the same stew pot works only if it is impossible for people to travel from one area to another. In the case of the Holy Roman Empire and Renaissance France, the two campaign settings were separated by the Rhine River. While the current of the Rhine is swift and the water is cold, crossing it is not impossible. The pharaohs with their polytheism would have been very incompatible with the monotheism of Islam: just look at the history of the Crusades and the savage bloodshed resulting from one monotheistic faith(Christianity) bumping into another monotheistic faith(Islam). At least, Tolkien made it clear that during (and after) the Third Age of Middle Earth, that passage to the Undying Lands was a one-way voyage.
The first incarnation of "Battlestar Galactica" (the one with Lorne Greene), in its final season, had the fleeing human survivors finally finding the lost human colony on Earth (modern day Earth) with the Cylons hot on their trail, forcing the Colonial survivors to consider whether it was right to include the people of Earth in the ongoing war with the Cylons.
Thus, if you REALLY want your Spell jammer ship and crew to drop down into Earth's atmosphere, be prepared for a whole boatload of questions like how the various nations of Earth respond to such a visitation.
That depends on when in Earth's history it arrives.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Indeed, when does that Spell jamming ship arrive?
Does it swoop into the air space over London during the Battle of Britain in 1940? Does it swoop into the air space over Berlin during one of daytime bombing raids in 1944? Does it swoop over Roswell during the 1950's and be listed as a Very Unfriendly Flying Object? Does it swoop over ancient Baghdad of the year 200 A.D. and be hailed as an arrival of one of the gods of the Mideast? Does it swoop over Washington D.C. in the year 2040 A.D. and be blasted by a series of surface to air missiles?
Actually I don’t see any real ncompatabilities. Yes in our world they were from different time periods and some of them overlapped but all could easily be placed in a mostly European setting:
Holy Roman Empire -Germany-Austro-Hungary, the non Spanish Hapsburg empire
Arthurian England - Romano-British - including Cornwall, Wales, Southern Scotland and possibly Normandy and Brittany
Rennaisance France - roughly 1400s not 1600s, France and parts of Italy. City states and competing duchies with a mostly powerless central authority ( the king is in name only but is one of the duchies.
Norse Vikings - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the Vikings Rus.
Egypt - Palestine, Egypt, Libya and northern Sudan. Instead of being conquered they returned to a Ptolemaic dynasty with the break up of the Roman Empire and defeated the Arab attempts at conquest.
islamic Caliphates - 2 seperate Caliphates in competition with each other. First the Eurasian caliphate of Iraq, Iran and turkey. Second the Spanish Caliphate of Spain and western North Africa.
Zhou and Ming Dynasties - basically a late warring states situation in the far east.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.