GURPS Canadian Adventures

[Kromm]

Well, really the Gulf of St-Lawrence. Interesting battle, all the same.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Kromm

Especially 'round these parts.

Y'all are making me want to dig out my copy of Quebec 1759 and coerce someone into playing it with me.

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Not another shrubbery

Y'all are making me want to dig out my copy of Quebec 1759 and coerce someone into playing it with me.

Wait . . . is that the old 1970s boardgame with wooden blocks for pieces? I ask because my dad was one of the teachers whom the publishers of one such game had test for suitability as an educational tool. I'm not sure that was the same game, but I am sure that he brought home a Seven Years War game in the mid-1970s.

[Anders]

Apparently the Tories have been making calls in non-Tory districts to misdirect voters so they'll give up rather than vote. But the Tories are just tools. Who is the man in the shadows? The one who pulls the strings? Is it even a man...?

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Kromm

Wait . . . is that the old 1970s boardgame with wooden blocks for pieces? I ask because my dad was one of the teachers whom the publishers of one such game had test for suitability as an educational tool. I'm not sure that was the same game, but I am sure that he brought home a Seven Years War game in the mid-1970s.

Yes. Checking BGG and Wiki, I see that the OP was Gamma Two Games, back in '72. I got my copy much later, after G2G had become Columbia Games. I used to think the block system was quirky, but the ease and speed of play made those games favorites of mine. I'd have to go through my stored stuff to see all the titles I had... the only ones I remember for sure now are Q1759 and The War of 1812.

[Voren]

SARS, Toronto, 2003

You laugh. SARS. Really?

The usual media hysteria aside, off hand I can't think of a better example of 'scary outbreak in a major Western city,' ripe for a bit of creative exaggeration and cinematization. Unknown disease. Forced quarantines. Travel bans. Dead nurses. No vaccine. No treatment. Imminent pandemic. Oh yes, and don't forget the media hysteria.

The whole episode seemed to come across as a bit of a joke to most of the people from other parts of the country I spoke with. However, from my spot at the time on the distant periphery of the health care system, the medical world was very scared -- in a way totally unlike the H1N1 swine flu non-event a couple of years ago.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Bruno

The Oka Crisis: town tries to build golf course on ancient Mohawk burial ground. Mohawks fortify the reserve border and institute their own customs stations, with armed warriors. Excellent place for PCs in an active-spirits setting, whether a traditional Horror setting or a Werewolf The Apocalypse style gung-ho-action-spirits setting.

I got a lot of mileage about a similar incident where one of the Northeastern nations got permission to go whaling again and conservation groups protested. Obvious Wendigo vs. Children of Gaia conflict.

[Phil Masters]

Hmm. Nobody has yet mentioned Rob MacDougall's tributes to Ken Hite:
Born on the First of July
Dominion Day (Canada could really be evil!)
Things Americans Don't Know (which appears to be simple historical truth)
And the unnerving The Northern Magus (which really needs to be run as a game some time).

[Figleaf23]

If you like Canadian cheese:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_of_the_Yukon

[Davies]

Originally Posted by Bruno

The Halifax Harbour Explosion (largest non-nuclear explosion ever). Go nuts with conspiracy/spy-espionage adventures around it.

Pedantic quibble -- largest non-nuclear man-made explosion ever. I strongly suspect that Krakatau left it in the dust. (And checking my facts, yeah. Four times the Tsar Bomba.)