How would you do a medieval high fantasy version of the United States?

I like that that was probably its intended use, but without other Arches in the world, that falls a little-...wait, are there other large arches?

I'll give it a go
A.) Divide it into regions. At least 3
B.) They are all wary at each other
e.g.
1. The Queens Land (New England/Northeast)- a most organized and lawfull set of city states that used to be ruled by the Rainstone Empire(or whatever you want to call your Not!England) until a dramatic revolution gave them their freedom. Mostly a clone of most medieval Europe but with more clam chowdah
2. The Southern Holds- A barbaric semi society that values strength, hard work, and loyalty to one's god and household. While they have an alliance with the rest of the region, they despise "civilized" folk and their weak ways.

Why do you think they call it the Arc de Triomphe?

They use the ones left by Rome... and those made in pale imitation.

Don't make it based on modern America, just use the geography. (As opposed to the standard fantasy quasi-europe).

Or focus on 'advancing' the pre-Columbian cultures to be more standard high-fantasy territory.

ok after looking up more famous arches it could definately work.

If you have a moment look up the piasa. There's a cool history of it that I won't detail here but it's basically a native American river monster.

Liberty Bell is rung daily for a ward or protection for the city. Over the years, it has cracked and its power has slowly been waning.

The Oregon trail is now a holy pilgrimage

The arch is built on an old native American village I shit you not. Everytime there's construction in the area it's slow as fuck to allow archaeologists to do salvage digs.

powered on the souls of the ancestors, and only used when approved by their living decendants? sounds good to me.

Cont.
3. The Godly Dominion (Midwest)- A sparsely populated smattering of rural towns usually ruled by a local mayor or high priest. They're actually not really associated with each other but are grouped together by others due to their regional proximity and cultural similarity.
4.) The Shining Coast (West Coast)- A relatively newly civilized area. The powerful here are both patrons of the arts and masters of the arcane. In fact, the local lords are usually rich bards or powerful wizards. The area is an almost constant state of upheaval, due to lords warring with each other over power, money, land, gambling debts, the last fry, or various other petty grievances. They generally do not care for anything they consider "rural" and share a strong rivalry with Queens Land

The south consists entirely of vampires vs. werewolves all the time forever.

San Francisco would probably be one of the few places without compulsory military service.

Arizona's native architecture would be cranked up to eleven, with "cliffside" dwellings covering entire mountain ranges and a significant chunk of the Mogollon Rim, and a sprawling complex of hives and tunnels under the Valley of the Sun, with low-slung above ground buildings and irrigation canals.

The Grand Canyon would be a planetary major ley line exposed to open air, the bottom rendered entirely uninhabitable to PC races due to sheer magical intensity. Drawing energy from the ley line and selling the stored magical potential turns the state's economy into the equivalent of a major oil exporter.

>This is why everybody is packing some kind of weaponry
It all fits! The demand for silver weapons and fire-based magecraft/magical staves would be insane.

Ask /k/ for skinwalker stories and you can get at least a full campaign's worth of encounters.

That village was a mississipian suburb of cahokia. I think you'd have fun with some of the imagery of cahokia. It's a weird place to visit. Youre allowed to climb the largest mound. Its pretty creepy at night. Lewis and Clark even mentioned seeing it in their diaries. At one point the city was home to 40 thousand people(?don't feel like googling it going off memory). Human sacrifice was pretty common but they don't mention it in the local museum. I only found out about it after befriending a local archaeologist.

You mean european medieval i assume?

neat! certainly adds to the atmosphere :P

What about that one county in New York really well known for UFO sightings?

New Jersey is run by The Jersey Devil, who basically has a mythical equivalent of the Italian Mob, which consists of many other legends specifically from that time period.

>Southern Old-Money Aristocrat Vampires
>Lower Class Werewolves just trying to get by

Medieval high fantasy US would just be England with a little HRE mixed in tho.

The earliest forms of D&D were far more like how the America's developed than anything like medieval Europe.

I would actually run it more like the Gunslinger series - sixguns instad of swords, with sherrifs and lawmen being the monarchs and aristocracy as well as the men with the best guns, single shot longarms being more of a soldier's weapon, and crossbows and bows and spears being peasant's weapons.

Holy smites. You actually got me to take interest in my hometown's weird as heck monument. Oh, the possibilities...

Most large cities' sports teams turn into some form of gladiatorial pit where the "players" fight for sport and entertainment of the masses. They arrange for various "sporting" events throughout the seasons, with a focus on one particular style of combat/fighting.

The Kennedy Space Center is a temple to the gods and goddesses of the sun, moon, and stars, named after High Priest Kennedy, who was killed during a public tour of the countryside, spreading the teachings of the gods of the sky.

Mt. Rushmore is a holy land, the faces carved into the mountainside said to be four great leaders, warriors, and thinkers who led the country in times of great strife.

Chicago acts as one of the last densely populated gateways to the Endless Plains, a microchasm of the "civilized" eastern towns and cities and the untamed wilds of the west. Goods pour in from all around the continent and are traded and shipped to other corners of the lands, thanks to its proximity to several major rivers/waterways and being next to the chain of the Lakes of the Titans, carved out of the earth by the titans when the plane was first made.

Dwarves from the mountains in the east are always trying to get expeditions together to dig into the Dragon Spine Mountains in the western half of the continent for more resources, but various weather-related calamities seem to befall them, leading many to think the lands are blessed (or cursed) by some powerful nature deity.

Texas is just the old west but with wands instead of six shooters. Everything else is the same.

What would the Smoky mountains national park have? A meeting place for various monsters?

Take Lost and put it on a mountain instead of an island. Look I don't know that many smoke monsters, ok?

its a weird thing in the middle of the city! how can you not notice it??

then again, I live in San Francisco and have never been to Alcatraz.

which in a high fantasy setting would probably be patrolled by anti-magic golems.

>Florida
Filled with tribal lizardfolk and the remains of a merfolk kingdom (from when it used to be underwater) and its shores are surrounded by endless ghost pirates from many hurricanes and reef sunk ships all throughout the ages.

Its main draw is the Necromantic Magic Kingdom, built by a mysterious being known as Mr. Disney, also known as Disney's World. It impulsively draws the young and elderly from all over the world to give up themselves to its power, it forever growing in strength for unknown reasons. A smaller version exists in California, known as Disney's Land and astrally linked together by something called "The Monorail' by those that have been taken.

To make matters worse, it's believed the whole state has some sort of cursed leyline running under it that causes general insanity over long periods of time.

I had the idea of running a Pendragon game set in a post-post-apocalyptic United States, where civilization has managed to recover enough to technologically and socially resemble the Middle Ages. The old United States would be split into a bunch of different petty kingdoms, and the campaign itself would center around a King Arthur-esque figure rising up and uniting the country under one banner.

>This thread yet again.
Jesus fucking Christ, how many times it's going to be reposted? It's fucking boring at this point to have this fucking thread at least once per week for past fucking 4 years

Holy Roman Empire it.

Michigan is a peninsula of pirates who plague the surrounding states' shorelines for loot. The heartland is plains and more plains and even more plains so plenty of nomads in the interior and South West. The South itself can support cities and the harsh summer heat means reptiles grow to extreme proportions there. In the Bayou, massive gators prey on cattle herded by nomads.

Florida is a wasteland, never go there. Dwarves inhabit the Rocky's and the surrounding foothills. They keep the coastal and forest goblins of the West at bay while wild-men and orcs inhabit the deserts further south.

Northern and Eastern states have populations of people from all backgrounds, but each region carries distinct cultures and languages.

The smoky mountains carry a mystic magic in them which attract many Elves to it. They are peaceful enough... just don't fuck with their woods. Alaska is completely overran with were-bears who, without a winter to force them into hibernation, would overrun other areas as well.

Hawaii is a blissful place filled with halflings and gnomes content to farm fungus and tropical plants in the hot, humid air of the islands. The volcano is their god, and their god demands sacrifice.

Break down almost all the states, so you have everything from city state to one or two decent kingdoms.
Give the now far numerous parts variable states of autonomy and obligations.
The coasts have either feuding and raiding tribes or trade republics.
The inlands are were the food and thus the power is.
Have a head figure with a fancy title, but not necessary much power.
Have a shitload of languages that somewhat grow together in some regions.
Same for cultures.
For extra fun add a couple of religion or slightly different brands of the same religion.
Call it Holy Roman Empire.

Spend the next decades arguing if your king OF his realm or king IN his realm.

Fake or not why is it that the creator made Illinois' so strange?

Not sure how to go about handling the entire country but the areas immediately around the great lakes would likely have some sort of alliance or at least nonaggression pact type thing in my version.

Make them have wizards who excel in wind based magic?

>Rhode Island
>become an X-Man

What about Florida?

California is ruled over by a council of wizards with no formal requirement to join the council other than the ability to cast 7th level spells. They make insane and arbitrary decrees, often contradicting each other, but they've attracted so many other powerful wizards that they can't help but prosper anyways.

Civil war style anglo/irish americana, stars and stripes, similar music, basically Teddy Roosevelt but with dnd wrapped around.