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<blockquote data-quote="ptolemy18" data-source="post: 2538496" data-attributes="member: 24970"><p>Whatever you think about ETERNAL ROME and TROJAN WAR.... if you have any interest in Bronze-Age or ancient-historical campaigns, TESTAMENT (by a different author, BTW) is one of the best D&D3.0 supplements ever. When some game designer (Scott Bennie) is willing to read through the Bible, the Apocrypha, Egyptian & Babylonian & Sumerian myths and compile them into a campaign setting, that is some seriously good stuff.</p><p></p><p>And it's *good* that he does it fairly 'straight' instead of warping it into some more D&D-ized version, like the typical vaguely-based-on-real-places settings in FORGOTTEN REALMS or MINDSHADOWS. If he had then turned TESTAMENT around and turned it into "LAND OF GOSHEN, THE PSEUDO-BIBLICAL CAMPAIGN SETTING WITH ALL THE NAMES CHANGED"... or turned ETERNAL ROME into "ARC*N*S, THE PSEUDO-ANCIENT-WORLD CAMPAIGN SETTING WITH THE NAMES CHANGED", *then* I would have been pissed off. Settings based on real places with the names changed are a dime a dozen. Anyone can do that stuff. (Although I admit I do kind of like Arcanis.)</p><p></p><p>I've read books on Roman history, I have a bunch of D20 books, and I thought Eternal Rome was good. It's hardly just a rules splatbook. I guess I can sympathize if you felt it just wasn't *enough* new material (like maybe a blow-by-blow description/map of Roman cities), or enough adventure hooks/campaign ideas, but I was very satisfied with what *is* there. Given the choice, I'd always prefer for supplements to be longer... that was my only minor complaint about EGYPTIAN ADVENTURES. I guess I've already read enough Roman history & seen enough Roman maps that I didn't feel the need for a more detailed description of that stuff. (Although I do think the ETERNAL ROME description is adequate.)</p><p></p><p>Jason</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ptolemy18, post: 2538496, member: 24970"] Whatever you think about ETERNAL ROME and TROJAN WAR.... if you have any interest in Bronze-Age or ancient-historical campaigns, TESTAMENT (by a different author, BTW) is one of the best D&D3.0 supplements ever. When some game designer (Scott Bennie) is willing to read through the Bible, the Apocrypha, Egyptian & Babylonian & Sumerian myths and compile them into a campaign setting, that is some seriously good stuff. And it's *good* that he does it fairly 'straight' instead of warping it into some more D&D-ized version, like the typical vaguely-based-on-real-places settings in FORGOTTEN REALMS or MINDSHADOWS. If he had then turned TESTAMENT around and turned it into "LAND OF GOSHEN, THE PSEUDO-BIBLICAL CAMPAIGN SETTING WITH ALL THE NAMES CHANGED"... or turned ETERNAL ROME into "ARC*N*S, THE PSEUDO-ANCIENT-WORLD CAMPAIGN SETTING WITH THE NAMES CHANGED", *then* I would have been pissed off. Settings based on real places with the names changed are a dime a dozen. Anyone can do that stuff. (Although I admit I do kind of like Arcanis.) I've read books on Roman history, I have a bunch of D20 books, and I thought Eternal Rome was good. It's hardly just a rules splatbook. I guess I can sympathize if you felt it just wasn't *enough* new material (like maybe a blow-by-blow description/map of Roman cities), or enough adventure hooks/campaign ideas, but I was very satisfied with what *is* there. Given the choice, I'd always prefer for supplements to be longer... that was my only minor complaint about EGYPTIAN ADVENTURES. I guess I've already read enough Roman history & seen enough Roman maps that I didn't feel the need for a more detailed description of that stuff. (Although I do think the ETERNAL ROME description is adequate.) Jason [/QUOTE]
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