Board Thread:Map Game Discussions/@comment-440838-20131112015632

I was thinking of a game...

A game about the Age of Discovery. Originally the players start with the map of Europe and the Mediterranean, with the surrounding world unknown to them, and then they begin to explore and conquer other continents. But the point is originally the players are as clueless about the rest of the world as the real 15th century's Europeans have been — because the world map, other than its European part, is not what we all accustomed to. The players send expeditions to explore whether it's possible to reach India circumventing Africa, whether the North-West Passage exists, etc., and the "dungeon master", the only person who owns the full world map, shows what kind of territories they have discovered, or haven't discovered — because all the sailors have died of scurvy, or where eaten by Papuans.

Well, I suppose it wouldn't be accepted here, since it a game like that would eventually turn out into an alternative geography rather than an alternative history game, but still, I think it would be interesting. 