The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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[CleverNickName]

I mean, threadcrapping is technically an answer, so...

 

[eyeheartawk]

Guys, if I defend the indefensible enough times the fortune 500 will love me back.

 

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[deganawida]

No longer sure if that’s an actual idea in play, or a way to make a point.

 

[Thomas Shey]

It’s a lot of fun to go down the research rabbit hole during world-building. Even if I don’t use all the things I find as inspiration for my world, it’s still cool to learn about them.

I've done this on multiple occasions. When I was running my Mythic Briton based Mythras campaign, I found myself wandering into more information about the late Roman Empire than I really needed (since it was set in the time period after they'd withdrawn from Britain), but there I was. I suspect if I ever end up running my pseudo-North-American fantasy campaign I'll fall down the rabbit hole about various tribal groupings when setting up my own replacements for them, too...

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I've done this on multiple occasions. When I was running my Mythic Briton based Mythras campaign, I found myself wandering into more information about the late Roman Empire than I really needed (since it was set in the time period after they'd withdrawn from Britain), but there I was. I suspect if I ever end up running my pseudo-North-American fantasy campaign I'll fall down the rabbit hole about various tribal groupings when setting up my own replacements for them, too...

Same. I tend to enjoy blending various cultures and religions together more than just ripping off a single culture, which makes it even harder to worldbuild.

And just a nitpick, I wouldn’t classify the time period of the Romans leaving Britannia as part of the “late Roman Empire.” The Roman Empire was able to survive for over 1000 years after that.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"You didn't explain it because I decided to skip 99% of your post" is beneath you as a rhetorical strategy.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Same. I tend to enjoy blending various cultures and religions together more than just ripping off a single culture, which makes it even harder to worldbuild.

I'll pretty much have to do that with the North America based campaign, since besides the changes in history and geography I'm doing, I couldn't do justice to more than a fraction of the cultures there, so I'm going to make life easy on myself and do some broad strokes things in five groups.

And just a nitpick, I wouldn’t classify the time period of the Romans leaving Britannia as part of the “late Roman Empire.” The Roman Empire was able to survive for over 1000 years after that.

I guess it depends on whether you consider the Byzantines the same thing or not. Its a defensible position, but I tend to view the Eastern Empire as an offshoot; they certainly had even less to do with the cultural remainders in Briton I was actually concerned with.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I guess it depends on whether you consider the Byzantines the same thing or not. It’s a defensible position, but I tend to view the Eastern Empire as an offshoot; they certainly had even less to do with the cultural remainders in Briton I was actually concerned with.

Yeah, I wasn’t suggesting that researching the Eastern Roman Empire would be relevant to building a Brythonic-Roman setting, just that I definitely wouldn’t consider that era to be the late Roma Empire. Late Western Roman Empire maybe, but Western Rome still survived for a bit after leaving Brittania.

Spoiler: Byzantium was Roman

I’m pretty sure nearly every historical scholar of Rome considers the “Byzantine” era to still be Roman. They called themselves Roman, continued the line of emperors and other systems of governance (of course with reforms over the centuries, like the Thematas and the Code of Justinian), and they were literally just the Eastern half that survived the invasions of the Vandals and Goths. It’s a different era of Rome, like how the Roman Republic and Roman Empire were different eras, but still definitely Roman. And the stuff that went down in Justinian’s reign is just as dramatic as the Punic Wars or the War of Actium. Sure, the Eastern Romans spoke Greek, but that half of the empire always spoke Greek.