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Word Association: African Setting

Started by RPGPundit, November 14, 2006, 04:30:35 PM

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RPGPundit

Well, what would you connect to a setting that was African Themed?

For me:

lost cities and/or valleys.
vast jungles
vicious, almost intelligent predators
rich variety of shamanistic folk-traditions

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Shaka and the changes he brought to Zulu culture and Warfare might be of interest. :)

jrients

awesome civilizations in hidden places
elephant burial grounds
ruins with Lovecraftian style degenerate submen
gold and ivory
King Solomon's diamond mines
Prester John
badass Zulu warriors
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Sosthenes

Cannibals
Big pots
People wearing leopard fur
Lions
Explorers & Adventurers
Huge gems and/or gold nuggets
Hidden valleys that time forgot
Veiled desert nomads
Jungles
Sandstorms
Degenerated savages
Noble savages
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Gorilla City
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dar

There is your struggle against the elements. Didn't Guns, Germs, and Steel talk about the difficulties the european colonizers had the further north into the tropical zones they went from south africa?

Trying to eak out a living when your tools, cattle, crops and the very immune system that served you so well before, being disasterously inaddequite.

fonkaygarry

Royally-sponsored martial arts tournaments.  (African MAs are pretty interesting, from what I've heard of them.)
teamchimp: I'm doing problem sets concerning inbreeding and effective population size.....I absolutely know this will get me the hot bitches.

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mythusmage

Barges on the Nile.

Lions coughing at the walls of the karral.

Elephants stealing the oranges from the bowl in your second story room.

Witch hunters

The Nandi Bear and the Bili Ape.

Wereleopards.

Crocodiles larger than your boat.

Hippos that bite through that same boat.

Meerkats and pygmy mongooses.

Watching Cape Hunting Dogs run down an eland.

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jrients

Vampires with no skin
Pygmy brontosauruses
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Hastur T. Fannon

 

Sosthenes

as long as they're not the national geographic type...
 

JohnB

Tribal wars
Drought
Strange debilitating diseases
Lions
Lions eating people
People eating people
Remote unspoiled locations
Bugs
Animism
Diamonds
Crocodiles eating people
Baboons...lots of baboons.
 

Casey777

Pith helmets
lost rivers and mountains
desert schools
discovered dead civilizations
Carthage; salted earth
lions, elephants, hippos, etc.
remote monestaries (desert, plateau, mountain, etc.)
gold, ivory, spices
flies, disease, drought, torrential storms

part of the problem is Africa is so big and diverse, it's really 4-5+ distinct regions

fonkaygarry

Jo'burg Urban:
Slasher Gangs
Paramilitary Police
Secret Knifefighting Cabals
teamchimp: I'm doing problem sets concerning inbreeding and effective population size.....I absolutely know this will get me the hot bitches.

My jiujitsu is no match for sharks, ninjas with uzis, and hot lava. Somehow I persist. -Fat Cat

"I do believe; help my unbelief!" -Mark 9:24

Aos

hidden lands full of otherwise extinct animals.
aids inspired virgin rape
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