Right, so for the past month there's been a general agreement that the old 'Medieval America Co-Op Project' had gotten too unwieldy and incohesive, and that a new thread and general reboot of the Project was necessary. Well, this thread is that., a discussion of the Medieval America FH setting conceived by Matt White
First some background: In 2003 Matt White created the Atlas of Medieval America, a look at a post-apocalyptic North America that had regressed to medieval tech levels. Like all of his AH work this was very tongue-in-cheek, with entries like California being ruled by Scientologist Pharaohs and the Deep South being nudist. In spite of this, this was clearly the project he spent the most amount of research and effort on, and it is a shame it was never finished.
Fast foward four years to 2007, and we get this discussion thread on AH.com. Two years later, this blog showed up. All this led to Jord839 creating the Medieval America Co-op Project. The goal was to for AHers to try to create a vibrant world based off of White's framework, the iron-clad rule being "The collapse of civilization should never be discussed."
It was somewhat bumpy in the beginning (at least one now-banned poster constantly tried to wank his entries, another now-banned poster tried to constantly bring his personal views into it, and several posters simply complained that Medieval America wasn't a carbon copy of Medieval Europe), but it was, overall, a success. However, as mentioned above, it was very disorganized, and after roughly a year it was increasingly difficult to keep track of information. Jord839 leaving the board didn't help matters.
In the end, a total reboot was agreed upon, and thus this thread. This is a discussion thread, and so is intended to focus on discussing aspects of the Medieval America world, with a submissions thread for country information to follow if interest is high enough. I hope we can make this as succesful as the previous thread.
First some background: In 2003 Matt White created the Atlas of Medieval America, a look at a post-apocalyptic North America that had regressed to medieval tech levels. Like all of his AH work this was very tongue-in-cheek, with entries like California being ruled by Scientologist Pharaohs and the Deep South being nudist. In spite of this, this was clearly the project he spent the most amount of research and effort on, and it is a shame it was never finished.
Fast foward four years to 2007, and we get this discussion thread on AH.com. Two years later, this blog showed up. All this led to Jord839 creating the Medieval America Co-op Project. The goal was to for AHers to try to create a vibrant world based off of White's framework, the iron-clad rule being "The collapse of civilization should never be discussed."
It was somewhat bumpy in the beginning (at least one now-banned poster constantly tried to wank his entries, another now-banned poster tried to constantly bring his personal views into it, and several posters simply complained that Medieval America wasn't a carbon copy of Medieval Europe), but it was, overall, a success. However, as mentioned above, it was very disorganized, and after roughly a year it was increasingly difficult to keep track of information. Jord839 leaving the board didn't help matters.
In the end, a total reboot was agreed upon, and thus this thread. This is a discussion thread, and so is intended to focus on discussing aspects of the Medieval America world, with a submissions thread for country information to follow if interest is high enough. I hope we can make this as succesful as the previous thread.