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OSR Ancients

Started by RPGPundit, August 29, 2018, 09:03:38 PM

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RPGPundit

August 29, 2018, 09:03:38 PM
What pseudo-historical setting from the Classical or Ancient world would you want to see as an OSR game or setting book?
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August 29, 2018, 11:23:37 PM
I'd love to see one that delved into the Finnish mythology, as in the collected works of it done in the 19th century as the Kalevala. It's as ripe for source material as the Norse, Greek, and Celtic lore. The legends of ancient India are also well under-used, IMO.

JeremyR

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August 30, 2018, 12:14:38 AM
Sumerian-Babylonian-Akkadian. In a lot of ways, that was the original sword & sorcery setting.

And it would be nice if Arrows of Indra got any sort of support.

Azraele

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August 30, 2018, 12:37:40 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1054444What pseudo-historical setting from the Classical or Ancient world would you want to see as an OSR game or setting book?

There's really not enough South-American/ancient Mexican settings (granted some of the gods got in with deities&demigods). I'd love to have a party of jaguar-warriors stalking through demon-infested jungles, offering blood sacrifices to the gods...
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August 30, 2018, 12:54:30 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1054444What pseudo-historical setting from the Classical or Ancient world would you want to see as an OSR game or setting book?

West Africa -- the Mali-Songhay era, in particular. Beninian coast would be a good aside too, the equiv of barbarian kingdoms of Forgotten Realms with Gao as Neverwinter and Timbuktu as Cormyr et al.
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#5
August 30, 2018, 03:06:49 AM
Stone Age would be my choice. Sticks, stones, bones and magic.

And I agree with Azraele, an OSR Ancient Mexico setting would be interesting.


Quote from: JeremyR;1054469And it would be nice if Arrows of Indra got any sort of support.

Agreed. I know they opened it to 3PP, but RPGPundit is the ideal author to expand the setting.

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#6
August 30, 2018, 03:55:03 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1054488Stone Age would be my choice. Sticks, stones, bones and magic.

You should check out Wolf Packs and Winter Snow.  Does what you're after, and with flair.

TJS

#7
August 30, 2018, 04:31:11 AM
I'd only be interested in ancient world themed OSR setting that doesn't necessarily feel like it's explicitly based on a single specific ancient world civilisation.

Weru

#8
August 30, 2018, 06:13:54 AM
Quote from: JeremyR;1054469Sumerian-Babylonian-Akkadian. In a lot of ways, that was the original sword & sorcery setting.


I've just stated working on one . . .

https://wulfwaldrpg.blogspot.com/2018/07/and-so-it-begins.html

https://wulfwaldrpg.blogspot.com/2018/08/seven-cities-classes-asipu.html

https://wulfwaldrpg.blogspot.com/2018/08/gods-of-seven-cities-design-notes-gods.html

Steven Mitchell

#9
August 30, 2018, 07:58:48 AM
A fantastical version of Rome right before it falls.  

Per the question, care more about the setting material than it be OSR in particular, but OSR rules are as good as anything else for my purposes.  Also, I'm not going to use it as it, but rather set a campaign after the fall, early dark ages.  The book then becomes a source book for what is left in the pockets of civilization as a starting point.  I'd handle how those change during the collapse.  Specifically, if the players want to try to rebuild what was, they can try in their neck of the woods.

I don't follow settings very closely.  This one may already be out there.

Barbatruc

#10
August 30, 2018, 12:15:14 PM
Late Bronze Age collapse. A handful of civilizations clustered around the eastern Mediterranean, with extensive diplomatic and trade relations, and a threat of Sea Peoples building up. Basically Cline's "1177 BC" but rpgfied.

Séadna

#11
August 30, 2018, 02:13:08 PM
Same as others, either Mesopotamia or Mesoamerica.

S'mon

#12
August 30, 2018, 04:15:23 PM
Quote from: TJS;1054496I'd only be interested in ancient world themed OSR setting that doesn't necessarily feel like it's explicitly based on a single specific ancient world civilisation.

I think that's my answer - I'd like a game where I could run every culture that appears in Hercules/Xena, from ancient Greece to Rome, Huns, Norse, China & Japan etc - but with say BC 300 to AD 300 tech, not medieval tech. It needs the full potential breadth of D&D, just classical not medieval.

Xena is definitely a good model (but use a fantasy world) - it needs to have classical Greece alongside late-Republic or early-Imperial Rome, plus proto-Vikings! :D

Zalman

#13
August 30, 2018, 04:34:22 PM
Egypt!
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