(Basic) D&D - Bronze Age

jgants · August 01, 2011, 12:02:21 PM

Quote from: The Butcher;470987I understand your point; D&D wasn't created to be The Ultimate Fantasy Emulator. Nonetheless, its framework is relatively easy to houserule and twist into new shapes that better suit what you have in mind. Not only is it a great intellectual exercise, but because D&D is the lingua franca of our hobby, it's often easier on players and GM alike, than to pick up a new game. It also plays with players' expectations to increase the surprise and novelty factors, when you get an old dog to do new tricks.

Just my 2c.

Yep, that's exactly why I want to go this way - with D&D and a couple of minor changes. It's still D&D, just with a slightly different flavor.

I don't mind using other games for ideas, but I still just want more or less standard D&D rules for my D&D game. It doesn't bother me to have bronze armor and a shield be as effective as plate mail or having priests call on Zeus to banish skeletons or having sorcerers that can blow up a trireme with a fireball spell. If I wanted a more historically accurate, gritty-style bronze age game I would have gone with the Chaosium BRP system (or the Mongoose Runequest one; same difference really).

RPGPundit · August 02, 2011, 12:35:59 PM

Quote from: daniel_ream;470945It's not, if you assume all casters are clerics, can cast arcane and divine spells, don't get armor or weapon proficiency, and have no specific bonuses to being healbots. Spells/day also doesn't fit the source.

You'd have to roll some kind of custom class, at best.

Or you could just, you know, play D&D in a bronze age setting.

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RPGPundit · August 02, 2011, 12:39:14 PM

I should note that there are two different greek settings in Mystara's "Hollow World": The Traldar, and the Milennian Empire. The former are heroic-era type greeks, the latter are the classical greeks. The latter had a sourcebook of their own: "The Milennian Empire". It might give you some ideas.

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(Basic) D&D - Bronze Age

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