I actively encourage folks to mess with anything they like when it comes to the version of the game they run for their players. I also have a fondness for nitpicking, so my thanks for your comments. Can’t beat local knowledge, so I’m very happy to welcome you to our little community. 🙂

And in your timeline, I would have taken a few liberties with Promethea’s south-east border as well – down in Dobrudja, which changed hands between Romania and Bulgaria anyway in Our Time Line. I would give Promethea the rocky, dramatic coastline and grain-rich interior of pretty nearly all Dobrudja in some treaty or other, and I’d increase the number and variety of German settlers from OTL – maybe a research station or three?

Declaration of interest here – I used to live in Slovenia for a while, nowadays I live in Romania, and I’m taking my summer holiday in Dobrudja this year!

Wow, an actual comment and not spam!! That threw me completely…

Right, to answer your question.

The game is set in 1910, though the map does mention the post-cold war countries, etc. Part of it is my bad. I was using modern maps for reference as those were the most accurate I could find to work from and those were the ones I passed on to Robert. Being so caught up with organising the history and internal details of the country, I hadn’t remembered to sort the bordering countries as they existed at the time. My thanks for pointing out the omission. 🙂 I will have a chat to Robert and see what we can sort out. We’ll see how time goes. If you know of an online resource that I can point folks at, otherwise here’s one that I tracked down – http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/2100/2149/2149.pdf . My only scant comfort is that using more modern countries might help the less geographically able to locate Romania on a map of the world… 😉

While the borders of Romania are the modern ones (by and large) this is covered in the book – thanks to the intervention of Frankenstein’s Augmented troops in the grab for territory during the various Balkan conflicts, Romania carved out its borders as they appear on the map before the country became Promethea. Once that happened, Victor and his advisors set about modernising and reworking the internal borders to make governing the country a lot easier and more efficient. This was something that didn’t happen in Romania to this extent until the Communist era.

As to whether the slight error in the maps will hamper the game in any way – Prometha has the advantage of being very inward-looking, save for the occasional influx of scientists, engineers and suchlike for the various conferences. Agents attempting infiltration come from various foreign powers, but those tend to be Germany, Russia, Britain and occasionally France. The US has tried to open discussions with the Resistance, but to no great effect. Anyway, the general result is that the countries on their borders are pretty much ignored anyway. Frankenstein hopes that the peoples there will benefit from the scientific discoveries and other advances he helps to foster, but he has no time for the ridiculous governments. Some of this historical reworking is covered in more detail in one of the extracts from the core book elsewhere on this site, filed in the Dark Texts section.

Now, side note! As we have close ties to Victoriana, you’ll notice that we still use the Victorian economic values. This basically allows folks to use Victoriana supplements to buy their characters additional equipment. We’re currently working on a supplement due in April of next year that will, amongst many other things, provide a very full Edwardian equipment listing, with revised money rules.

So, yes, hope that answers your question! Again, my thanks for the post, particularly as you didn’t try to sell me dodgy shoes, a Russian bride or a gnocchi recipe… 😉

That’s the maps updated now. 🙂

Leave that with me. Top idea! I’ll see what Robert might be able to do about that. Oh, and well done – 1st post to the new site! 🙂