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Author Topic: Historic Places/Periods You'd Like to see a Game Setting Based On?  (Read 6307 times)

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« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2017, 04:32:06 PM »
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I have never seen Ancient Greece (or the Hellenistic period) handled well. So that would be something.

Paul Elliot's Warlords of Alexander is pretty good for the Hellenistic era. I used it as a sourcebook for my own Hellenistic hack of ACKS. There's also Philos Basilikos for GURPS, which is useful as a player guide.
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« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2017, 04:40:21 PM »
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Paul Elliot's Warlords of Alexander is pretty good for the Hellenistic era. I used it as a sourcebook for my own Hellenistic hack of ACKS. There's also Philos Basilikos for GURPS, which is useful as a player guide.

There is also the Rolemaster Classic, Mythic Greece. Which really was the only memorable sourcebook of that line. But it was really well done.

But the problem with referencing sourcebooks of the past is: Accessibility and current availability. What is currently available of those historical periods now?
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« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2017, 04:45:55 PM »
What would the pike and shot era be?  That seems kinda cool.  Pikes.... shot...  adventure!

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« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2017, 05:25:42 PM »
EDIT: Stupid post.
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« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2017, 05:28:48 PM »
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« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2017, 07:32:10 PM »
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What would the pike and shot era be?  That seems kinda cool.  Pikes.... shot...  adventure!

Eighty Years War? Thirty Years War? English Civil War(s)?
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« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2017, 09:16:40 PM »
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Ancient Egypt. Particularly of a mythical bent.

I have the Rolemaster Classic, Mythic Egypt. And that book was bad. The writer tried to squeeze Egyptian Mythology through the lense of Tolkien.

OGL Ancients tried to cram Greek and Egyptian Mythology under the same cover. And honestly? It didn't do either of the subjects any favors.

So yeah. i definitely see it as an under-served topic.


Take a look at Valley of the Pharoahs from Palladium Books. IIRC is is available in PDF and it is actually a nice little game. Moswtly historical.

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« Reply #22 on: March 29, 2017, 09:19:51 PM »
A Pike & Shotte RPG could be fun. It does overlap with the Three Musketeers and swashbuckling which have frequently been done, as have pirates. Add to Pike&Shot the War of Austrian Succession, the War of Spanish Succession, and the Great Northern War. Although the WSS didn't have much pike being more early horse and musket.

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« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2017, 09:27:14 PM »
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...I have never seen Ancient Greece (or the Hellenistic period) handled well. So that would be something.
- Bronze age Greece (Minoans or Mycenaeans) could also be cool.


A "Mythic Greece" setting book is forthcoming for Mythras (formerly RuneQuest 6).

Design Mechanism already has "Mythic Britain" (5th-6th C Britain) and "Mythic Rome" (Republican Rome) settings out. I've played in the Mythic Britain campaign, and it's excellent.
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« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2017, 09:49:15 PM »
"Age of Arthur" provides a nice itteration of FATE for post-Roman Britain. Mostly historical, but it does have magic and a few fantastic creatures.

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« Reply #25 on: March 30, 2017, 12:59:41 AM »
Hudson's Bay Company vs. North West Fur Company... and stuff around the war of 1812. Lots of factions, wilderness, ties to Napoleonic wars.

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« Reply #26 on: March 30, 2017, 01:14:01 AM »
Gold rush era Australia, roughly 1850-1900: miners and prospectors, bushrangers (outlaws), State Police ('Texas Rangers'), aborigines, sheep and cattle stations.
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« Reply #27 on: March 30, 2017, 01:16:48 AM »
The Inca Empire. I'm not even sure why, except that I feel like they're an overlooked civilisation even as far as pre-Columbian American cultures go - those damn Aztecs hog all the attention! :p
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« Reply #28 on: March 30, 2017, 01:58:25 AM »
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Never. I really never heard of that game until your post.
Then you should be glad to find out that it's even free, along with the core Zenobia and the Ionia supplement:).
And in this case you definitely get more than you bargained for!

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The Inca Empire. I'm not even sure why, except that I feel like they're an overlooked civilisation even as far as pre-Columbian American cultures go - those damn Aztecs hog all the attention! :p
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« Reply #29 on: March 30, 2017, 07:28:35 AM »
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I have. Cover art for my Patriot game, an RPG set in the Age of Reason;

http://imgur.com/a/mC15V

Lately though I have been doing D&D games  set in Europe and the Middle East especially at conventions, featuring The Crusades and the Crusaders.


Please keep us posted here about that.