Looking for an old Dragon magazine Campaign Setting...

[Chakarum]

I vaguely remember reading a rather lengthy article in Dragon several years back about a campaign setting with a North American vibe to it. I was thinking this would be great source material to use for the area north of Maztica (which my players are exploring, at the moment). Anyone know which issue this was in, so I don't have to go through all my boxes?

[farewell2kings]

"The People" from #205...details North American Indian cultures...is that it?

[Snorter]

The 'Dungeoncraft' articles from 2000 also described how to create a homebrew campaign world. The example was spread out over several issues, and was a low-tech 'New World' tribal society.

Otherwise, the article I remember (and have just found on my super-duper new Dragon archive) is "The People", from issue 205, pages 12-24.

[CallawayR]

I remember being vaguely unsatisfied with it too. Seemed to cater to the stereotype. There was a lot going on in North America right before contact. Just because the area was ravaged by epidemics into a post-apocalyptic hell, I bet it would be more fun to meet the Coosa or the Caddo (societies rivaling the Empire of the Triple Alliance aka the Aztec)than to just lump everything into a sort of plains tribe amalgam (after the introduction of the horse).

[Chakarum]

Yep, this was the one I was thinking of. Thank you.

I am drawing on a lot of other material, especially the Dragonlance "barbarians" and some of the old gazateer/hollow world publications to flesh out the area. And I'm using the geography from the FR Atlas, just cuz its there. Ok, I'm off to make maps. =)

[Dave Howery]

CallawayR wrote:

I remember being vaguely unsatisfied with it too. Seemed to cater to the stereotype. There was a lot going on in North America right before contact. Just because the area was ravaged by epidemics into a post-apocalyptic hell, I bet it would be more fun to meet the Coosa or the Caddo (societies rivaling the Empire of the Triple Alliance aka the Aztec)than to just lump everything into a sort of plains tribe amalgam (after the introduction of the horse).

well, you have to remember that there was a word limit to consider. It would have been nice to include several more cultures and create kits for them and special rules and magic items for them... but then, I could have filled every page in Dragon for 10 issues in a row and still not covered everything. As it was, I had to go for some generic culture kits... and the editors still had to cut out some chunks of my original manuscript to fit it into the issue....