The Tall Ships

The Tall Ships are ships that sailed from the magical world of Shem to the moons in the late 1500s, leading to the first colonies there. These ships brought people who sought to exploit and control the moons, leading to conflict with the local species living there. Many have come since, fleeing persecution, plague, and turmoil.

The game would begin in the year 1767, about 200 years after the first colonials arrived on the moons.

Players would be a mixture of characters - those local to the moons, those from the nearby cosmos or other planets, those who came there in the second or third wave of immigration, those who were taken there as slaves, or those who came there as colonizers and rejected that role. They would all be part of a community called Zelentravn, a part of the Grey Moon that was once a colonial outpost. It was abandoned and left for the natives after a short conflict, and now it’s become a neutral zone for those outside of colonial life but with ties to it or locals who are part of the group that reclaimed it as well as colonials and others passing through.

Recent events include news of miners discovering a valuable ore (called menab'e) found in mines near Zelentravn, word of political conflict between the colonies and the empires on Shem, the theft of a relic of great importance on the Green Moon, and a distress signal from a nearby colonial town, Testagloban.

PCs would be people with a connection to people in that town or a reason to be part of the group sent to investigate the distress signal.

This game is intended to explore colonialism and anti-colonialism, slavery and liberation, and ancient fairy tales.

Introduction

Characters
Setting