Banestormed Academics

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Polydamas

If they are that isolated though they are likely to starve, not having seeds or livestock or anywhere to trade them from. .

There'll be the problem of convincing the English Department they all have to find a new line of work too.

However many useful professors of Engneering, Science and History there are plus useful ROTC cadets (maybe) any small to medoium college is going to have lots of people radically unsuited to their new existence. With no locals to negotiate and quite importantly learn _from_ it's all going to be worse.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by Polydamas

If they are that isolated though they are likely to starve, not having seeds or livestock or anywhere to trade them from. Then there will be no materials to build a new technology base with, because the people in the Orclands in the NW are poor. You need a base of hundreds of thousands of people communicating with a whole continent to gear down from TL 8 to TL5-6 (what Eric Flint's books are good for in this scenario is that some very smart people debated the specifics of how building a modern industrial base in 1632 Thuringia would work).

Many mid-Western colleges are Landgrant institutions. They are requiered by law to have agricultural and technical schools. Transfer the schools with it buildings and fields of crops. Yes there will be a hungry time and loss of life, but the school (transfer a small college town with it) will make it.

[swampthing]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

Many mid-Western colleges are Landgrant institutions. They are requiered by law to have agricultural and technical schools. Transfer the schools with it building and fields of crops.

In fact, transfer an ag school to an appropriate climate and you probably have to deal with an invasive species problem (in both directions).

[Turhan's Bey Company]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

There'll be the problem of convincing the English Department they all have to find a new line of work too.

...except for that one lonely Chaucer scholar who has a head start on communicating with the locals and finally gets the chance to say "HA! And you said my degree would never be useful!"

[woodchuck]

Good spots the triangle where the Orclands, Zarak, and Sahud meet or The Nomad Lands next to the Whitehoods would be somewhat safe from the technophobes. The Dwarves would love to meet modern metallurgists or mining engineers. The urge to contaminate Sahud with anime would be a matter of taste and your players tolerance for silliness..

[martinl]

This concept could be an Epic silly campaign. I suspect that any other game style short of highly cinematic will end in tears, however.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

...except for that one lonely Chaucer scholar who has a head start on communicating with the locals and finally gets the chance to say "HA! And you said my degree would never be useful!"

More likely the Latin/Medieval Religious Studies guy. Chaucer came a century or more after the peak of the Banestorm and there's been 800 years of finguistic drift since then. Written/Church Latin has probably been much more stable.

Or in other parts of Yrth, Classical Arabic though that probably has little to0 do with day to day dialects.

[Apache]

And, of course, if you make it a Jesuit university.....heheheheheh.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

More likely the Latin/Medieval Religious Studies guy. Chaucer came a century or more after the peak of the Banestorm and there's been 800 years of finguistic drift since then. .

But knowing Old English would still give someone a head start at learning Anglish.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

But knowing Old English would still give someone a head start at learning Anglish.

Chaucer spoke Middle English. However, Chaucer scholars would have an easier time with the Anglo-French amalgam that is the standard language of Yttarria.