...then what would your country look like if it was made into a Fantasy RPG Setting?
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Golarian already made an idealized fantasy America: it's called Andora. It's got elections, free mercantilism (I assume it's the D&D capitalist stand-in), and is staunchly abolitionist.
I don't know if it's got freedom of religion or some equivalent; that's a very important American ideal. Trying to implement that in standard D&D would be pretty difficult, what with evil Clerics summoning Demons and all that jazz.
Is FR fantasy Canada?
Mine would look like Bioshock Infinite. Skymerica, with psychic powers. Not merely the best country on Earth, ever, but literally too good to actually be physically located on Earth.
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Andoran could be taken to be fantasy France and I think that it was meant to be. Galt in Golarion is certainly fantasy France though. One is where the Terror never happened, and the other is where it never ended.
They already did Las Vegas in AD&D. It was called Dark Sun.
JG
A dry desert continent, with a few city states surrounded by farmland huddled along the coast and trading routes that go on endlessly through desert and scrub.
Their are rumours in the cities that somewhere in the desert there is an inland sea, and a glittering civilizations lies upon its shore, but those who live further in know that that was long ago, and the sea is now a salt plain, except for once or twice a century when the rains fall and the sea is filled.
Also it's filled with strange and exotic creatures.
I believe the Mad Max movies would be my favourite way to represent Australia for an rpg.
At the moment, Downton Abbey. :rolleyes:
Well, Florida was Dinosaur Swamp in Rifts(tm).
Well, there used to be a Portuguese language fantasy role-playing game set in a fantasy version of C17 colonial Brazil, with magic and monsters cribbed out of Brazilian folklore (itself a mishmash of native, African and European folklore). The setting also played up myths and folklore to make room for things like legendary tribes of giants and lost cities. Players were supposed to be bandeirantes, historical adventurer types who explored the wilds of colonial Brazil seeking their fortune; some were looking for emeralds or gold or other natural resources, others traded with the natives, and a few were slavers and bandits.
Brazil is freaking huge. You have jungles and savannahs and wetlands and mountains and big cities and small cities and just about everything. If you're only using the physical terrain as a foundation for a setting, you can end up with a pretty extensive and diverse milieu.
Quote from: Wolf, Richard;585621Is FR fantasy Canada?
That's what they say.
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Quote from: RPGPundit;585584...then what would your country look like if it was made into a Fantasy RPG Setting?
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The Froglands.
I dunno, but you'd definitely have a Social Status stat in fantasy fuckin' England.
My current campaign (in sig) is already a fantasy United States.
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The Mediaeval Eurth. (http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=17292)
Quote from: Benoist;586029The Froglands.
Indeed!
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I'd play that.
JG
Quote from: Wolf, Richard;585621Is FR fantasy Canada?
I was talking with Ed Greenwood last week. It's certainly fantasy Canada. Unintentionally, perhaps, but that's what happens. I kind of see Waterdeep as Toronto.
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I live in Oregon, which is about 90% of fantasy maps out there anyway.
"Well, our landmass is about 300 miles by 300 miles, but we want a little of everything, so temperate forests over here, snow-capped mountains up there, an ocean coast here, a giant lake there, badlands over in that area, a desert over there, rainforest would fit nicely here, a swamp looks good there, etc"
Quote from: Benoist;586029The Froglands.
The Slaadi outpost for conquering the world? :)
Paizo's Northern Crown (http://paizo.com/store/downloads/atlasGames/northernCrown) is fantasy colonial America.
I prefer using the real-world setting with fantasy elements. So, for example, I set a game in 1392 Vinland with fantasy elements.
Quote from: Sacrosanct;586783I live in Oregon, which is about 90% of fantasy maps out there anyway.
"Well, our landmass is about 300 miles by 300 miles, but we want a little of everything, so temperate forests over here, snow-capped mountains up there, an ocean coast here, a giant lake there, badlands over in that area, a desert over there, rainforest would fit nicely here, a swamp looks good there, etc"
Now I'm intrigued. OK, who wants to do a hex map of Oregon?
Quote from: The Butcher;586906Now I'm intrigued. OK, who wants to do a hex map of Oregon?
I'm in! I need a good excuse to order the pro version of Hexographer (http://www.hexographer.com/) anyway.
I'll give you a head start. I hope I didn't miss anything
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I like where you are going with this, but I would propose that the "Big Ass River" be submitted for consideration of different nomenclature. ;)
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I'm not sure about Fantasy RPG, but if it was Science Fiction RPG it would look like the
Spinward Marches from
Traveller.
I am still trying to puzzle this out. Does this mean the three most powerful bards in all the planes, known collectively as "Rushe", are from the Forgotten Realms?
Don't leave out the Oregon Vortex.
Quote from: StormBringer;586793The Slaadi outpost for conquering the world? :)
He was referring to my Albion setting.
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Quote from: RPGPundit;587312He was referring to my Albion setting.
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I like mixing and matching.
Hi, I was just researching some information on my Fantasy Canadian section of my game world and came upon this post. :)
I'm from Ontario, California and the founders of this town (The Chaffey Brothers) originally came from Ontario Canada. I had made a halfling town based on Ontario California, and had said the halfling Chaffy Brothers came from Ontaroshire in a place called Cana-Nador. :)
I finally got around to running a game set in Cana-nador. I have it posted on my website, based on the Toronto area. I use a lot of weather reports to figure what the weather would be like in the game, based on the date.
Please feel free to make any suggestions, I would really like to flesh it out. Ive really don't know much about Canada, just what I wiki and have seen jokes on TV.
https://sites.google.com/site/worldofganna/the-continent-of-conford/cananador
I hear the jokes are all true.
Regardless, welcome to the theRPGsite!
Thanks! :)
Speaking strictly for myself, my general image of the Forgotten Realms is a sparsely populated expanse with enclaves of good, hard-working people intermittently threatened by moustache-twirling villains, a la Snidely Whiplash vs. Dudley Do-Right; a stark contrast to typical S&S fare, featuring relatively selfish protagonists, decadent civilizations, etc.
But mainly, the assumption that civilized places tend to be safe (outside of the odd, typically undercover and low-profile agent of evil, acting on orders of distant masterminds with grandious plans) even though the wilderness is very, very dangerous -- that's what makes it look and feel like Fantasy Canada to me.
Of course, if Ed Greenwood wasn't Canadian, most likely no one would make the connection. But I first read it on Grognardia and I suppose the boot fits.
Quote from: The Butcher;593237Speaking strictly for myself, my general image of the Forgotten Realms is a sparsely populated expanse with enclaves of good, hard-working people intermittently threatened by moustache-twirling villains, a la Snidely Whiplash vs. Dudley Do-Right; a stark contrast to typical S&S fare, featuring relatively selfish protagonists, decadent civilizations, etc.
But mainly, the assumption that civilized places tend to be safe (outside of the odd, typically undercover and low-profile agent of evil, acting on orders of distant masterminds with grandious plans) even though the wilderness is very, very dangerous -- that's what makes it look and feel like Fantasy Canada to me.
As opposed to Fantasy Australia, which WOULD be Swords & Sorcery. ;)
JG
Quote from: James Gillen;593256As opposed to Fantasy Australia, which WOULD be Swords & Sorcery. ;)
JG
More like Swords & Holyshiteverythingisfuckingpoisonous-ry. :D
And yet just below the surface the FR contains a lot of S&S elements, too.
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Hmm, a lot of this interpretation must come from lengthy FR supplement and novel experience. I'm just going through FR grey box and, outside of the rather banal dales and pseudo-Hanseatic Leagues, most of the other kingdoms look rather dense with their prevalence of cities and tight city footprints. And then there's the lands beyond Faerûn, like Zakhara, Kara Tur, and Maztica which seem mostly urban (and assumed homesteads surrounding to supply food) with large stretches of wastes between.
I kinda don't want to read the novels now, just like the Dragonlance novels. :(
Quote from: RPGPundit;593698And yet just below the surface the FR contains a lot of S&S elements, too.
Yeah,
now I know that (having read the 1e gray box and the Jaquays gazetteers), but in my mind FR never really recovered from the ill-advised AD&D 2e "let's make D&D a romantic high fantasy RPG!" editorial line. Dragonlance was crap since always :D and Greyhawk was mostly ignored, so FR bore the brunt of the 2e-era bowdlerizing madness.
Quote from: The Butcher;593749Yeah, now I know that (having read the 1e gray box and the Jaquays gazetteers), but in my mind FR never really recovered from the ill-advised AD&D 2e "let's make D&D a romantic high fantasy RPG!" editorial line. Dragonlance was crap since always :D and Greyhawk was mostly ignored, so FR bore the brunt of the 2e-era bowdlerizing madness.
Yeah, that was really the problem; the novels never matched what the setting really offered in terms of S&S, and gradually the "vision" of the novels totally eclipsed the vision of the original boxed set, to the point that most gamers today would never associate FR with S&S.
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I currently live in Norway, so just take any vikings supplement and you'll find its fantastic version.
No idea what we could do with the oil, though.
Fantasy Uruguay would certainly be a weird place to adventure in.
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Quote from: RPGPundit;594404Fantasy Uruguay would certainly be a weird place to adventure in.
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On the other hand it's pretty close to Fantasy Rio. :D
JG
Quote from: James Gillen;594497On the other hand it's pretty close to Fantasy Rio. :D
JG
3 hour flight, actually. :D
Fantasy Rio would be
weird. Maybe I'll give it a try.
I've had a setting now for a while based on late 1800's Oklahoma (Indian Territory), but in the World of Darkness.
I call the place Smokefall, and it's filled with Native shamans, war parties, crazy German inventors, Boomers trying to settle the place and other strange critters such as a nasty version of the Tailypo.
I used the Book of Spirits, based on the main rulebook rather than Vampire, Mage or Werewolf. This opened the way for interactions with the spirits of the land, such as Coyote, Bear, Rattlesnake and Buzzard. Good times!