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<blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 5846334" data-attributes="member: 6688049"><p><strong><em> <strong><em>D&D Next culture books:</em></strong></em></strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Culture books modeled on <em>Oriental Adventures</em>. Split OA into different culture books.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Real World-based classes, PC races from mythology, themes, equipment, monsters, spells, deities</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Several D&D Earth campaign models in each book. (Same world as the Earth glimpsed in various D&D or d20 Modern products.)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Equivalent of Department-7 in each culture book. Knighthood of the Seven in medieval culture, Sodality of the Seven in indigenous cultures.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Also "culturocentric Earth" campaign model for each, where even the world map is shaped how that culture traditionally perceived the world. Like the "Norse alternate world" called Midgard in the Mystara cosmology, which is mentioned in the <em>Northern Reaches</em> Gazetteer</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Other campaign models show how to use this material in published D&D Worlds, laying out explicitly which D&D fantasy cultures are based fully or partly on Real World cultures. Acknowledges that some settings (such as Mystara) use RW inspirations directly, while other settings (such as Greyhawk and Ravenloft) tend to mix or alter RW elements; and some settings (such as Dark Sun and Eberron) avoid RW influences, but the crunchy bits can still be useful in those settings.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossaries for key languages of each culture. For example, in <em>Cathayan Adventures</em>, includes Chinese names for all the relevant D&D classes (e.g. Fighter = Wushi), equipment, monsters, spells, etc.; <em>Zipangu Adventures</em> gives Japanese names for the relevant D&D classes, (Fighter = Bushi) etc.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>The less popular cultures done as Dragon magazine articles or web-enhancements</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Each of these are lovingly crafted, so that each might be the epitome of their genre, while benefiting from being coupled with the streamlined 5e rules system. They aim to be better than all the existing rpgs which feature those cultures.</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Emirate Adventures</em></strong> (or <em>Arabian Adventures</em> or <em>Caliphate Adventures</em>; but "Arabian" excludes the Islamic Persian and Ottoman cultures, and "Caliphate" or "Caliphal" may be touchy since its the title of the Islamic "pope")</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Sha'ir class</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Arabic (and Persian and Ottoman Turkish?)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">D&D Earth campaign models at key points in Middle-eastern history.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>"Emirate Earth": A D&D setting whose map comes from early <a href="http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/222_al-Qazwini.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">Islamic world maps</span></a>, with south at the top of the map.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Toril: Zakhara, Calimshan, and the Bedine of the Anauroch Desert</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Mystara's Emirates of Ylaruam and the Desert Nomads (quasi-Afghan)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Phazaria in the Amber Wastes of Ravenloft</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Land of Arir in the stand-alone 1e adventure <em>I9: Day of Al-Akbar</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Desert of Desolation, stand-alone 1e adventure trilogy, later placed in Faerun's Plains of Purple Dust; Also, GAZ2 suggested placement in Mystara's Ylaruam</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Khinasi of Birthright setting</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Bakluni peoples of Greyhawk</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than <a href="http://paradigmconcepts.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=14" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Tales of the Caliphate Nights</em> True20</span></a></em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Cathayan Adventures</em></strong></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Wuxia</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Chinese (Kara-Tur-style Wade Giles spellings and modern Pinyin spellings)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>2e <em>Dragon Fist</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">D&D Earth campaign models in key moments in Chinese history</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>"Cathayan Earth" campaign model, with a world that is really shaped like <a href="http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/231_Asian_Religious_Mappaemundi_1.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">traditional Chinese worldmaps</span></a>.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Shou Lung and T'u Lung in Toril</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>I'Cath in Ravenloft</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Ochalea in Mystara</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Celestial Imperium/Shaofeng/Sufang of Oerth</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Invite Chris Pramas to co-author.</em></strong></li> </ul><p><em><strong>Zipangu Adventures</strong> (or Nipponic Adventures)</em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Chanbara (swordfighting) and other genres</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Japanese</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Kozakura and Wa in Toril</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Mystara: Empire of Myoshima on Mystara's invisible moon of Patera; also Yasuko barbarians of the Jungle Coast, and the rakastas of the Yazak Steppes in the Savage Coast</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Nippon/Ryuujin of Oerth</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Rokushima Taiyoo in Ravenloft</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>3e Rokugan/Lot5R</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than <em>Legend of the Five Rings </em>and<em> Sengoku</em></em></strong></li> </ul><p><em><strong>Nubian Adventures</strong></em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em><em></em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossaries: Swahili, Zulu, Kongo, Hausa, perhaps others</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Touv in Oerth</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Katashaka continent and Jungle of Chult in Forgotten Realms</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>The Wildlands in Ravenloft (The Crocodile King is an evil version of the Lion King)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Mystara: Yavdlom (Swahilis), Ulimwengu (pygmies), N'jatwaland and Simbasta lion-folk in Davania, Tangor in Skothar, Tanagoro (Zulu) in Hollow World</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than <a href="http://www.atlas-games.com/nyambe/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">Nyambe</span></a>. Maybe collaborate with Atlas Games since Nyambe is aleady such a well-crafted Campaign Model.</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Celtic Adventures</em></strong></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>leprechaun PC</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>monsters: redcap, banshee</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossaries: Irish, Welsh, perhaps others</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em><em>HR3: Celts</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Ffolk of the Moonshae Isles in Toril</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Mystara: Principality of Klantyre (Scotland), Province of Redstone (Ireland), Kingdom of Robrenn (Gaul) (and adjacent quasi-Celtic goblinoids), and Thratian Hinterlands (tribal Conan-style Old Irish "Cimmerians")</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Forlorn Domain in Ravenloft</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A1ine:_The_Role_Playing_Game_of_Celtic_Heroes" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">Sláine</span></a></em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Koryoan Adventures</em></strong></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Korean</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Model: Koryo in Toril</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Turtle Island Adventures</em></strong></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Anchorome continent of Forgotten Realms</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Mystara: Atruaghin Clans, Red Orcs, Yazi goblinoids</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Rovers/Arapahi of Greyhawk (like Arapaho)</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Resources: 1e Amerindian pantheon, Atruaghin Gazetteer</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossaries: Mohawk, Lakota, Arapaho, Tlingit, Hopi, Navajo, perhaps others</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Suvarnabhumi Adventures</em></strong> (or <em>Golden Land Adventures</em>; Southeast Asia)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossaries: Malay, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Burmese, Thai</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On the <a href="http://pandius.com/patera.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">invisible moon of Patera</span></a> of the World of Mystara: Selimpore (Singapore), Malaycalog (Philippines), Kompor-Thap (Cambodia), Surabayang (Malay)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Malatra and other lands in the south of Kara-Tur of the Forgotten Realms</em></strong></li> </ul></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Babylonian Adventures</em></strong> (or <em>Mesopotamian Adventures</em>)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Unther of Forgotten Realms (pre-Spellplague)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Mystara: Nimmur and Enduks of Eshu</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Ishtarland in western Oerth?</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Babylonian pantheon from 1e</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Babylonian deities from 2e <em>Return to the Keep on the Borderland</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>scorpion-folk</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossaries: Akkadian, Sumerian</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Biblical Adventures</em></strong></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>D&D Earth's equivalent of Biblical Palestine</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Ancient Hebrew</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than Green Ronin's <a href="http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr1019e.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #0066cc">Testament</span></em></a></em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Tawantinsuyu Adventures</em> </strong><em>(or Incan Adventures)</em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossaries: Quechua and Aymara</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Model: Oltec of Mystara's Hollow World</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Non-WotC: Southern Cross continent mentioned in Northern Crown setting.</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Amazonian Adventures</em> </strong>(perhaps merge with <em>Tawantinsuyu Adventures?)</em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Guarani, Old Tupi, Yanomami</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models: In Mystara: Phanatons of Jibaru (on the Savage Coast) and Manacupuru (in Davania)</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Tatarian Adventures</em></strong> (or <em>Turanian Adventures</em>; Central Asian Mongols, Turkics, and Scythians)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Mongolian, Old Turkic, Scythian (or invented Scythian-style names, since the language is barely recorded)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Horse Plains of Toril; also Murghôm (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Forgotten_Realms_nations#Murgh.C3.B4m" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">said by Rich Baker</span></a> to be partly evocative of the Turanians of the Conan stories)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Mystara: the Ethengar Khanates, Yellow Orcs, and hobgoblins of Hobgobliny; also Jennites (Scythians) of Mystara's Skothar continent and in the Hollow World</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Tiger Nomads and Wolf Nomads of Greyhawk</em></strong></li> </ul></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Hellenic Adventures</em></strong></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Dryad, Centaur, Satyr, Minotaur PC races</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>monsters: lamias, titans</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Classical Greek</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em><em>HR6: Age of Heroes</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">D&D Earth at key moments in Greek history (Trojan War, etc.)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>"Hellenic Earth" where the world is really shaped like the ancient Greek worldview, like <a href="http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/105_Homers_World_View.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">these Homeric worldmaps</span></a>.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Mystara: Minaeans (Minoans) near Skothar; Milenian colonies of the Grass Coast; Cathos and Vacros; Milenians and Traldar of Hollow World</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Chessenta of Forgotten Realms</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than Green Ronin's <a href="http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr1405e.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #0066cc">Trojan War</span></em></a></em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Northern Adventures</em></strong> (Norse-Germanic)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>1e Norse pantheon</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em><em>HR1: Vikings</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>3e Asgardian pantheon</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Northmen of the Moonshae Isles of Forgotten Realms</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>The Northern Reaches of Mystara (Vestland=Sweden, Ostland=Denmark, Soderfjord=Norway) and the Heldann Freeholds (Iceland) before the invasion of the Knights. The Midgard "Norse-centric" world mentioned in GAZ7.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Rjurik of Birthright setting</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>The Ice, Snow, and Frost Barbarians of Oerth</em></strong></li> </ul></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Hyperborean Adventures</em></strong> (Finnish, Siberian, and Inuit-Aleut)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Finnish pantheon from 1e Deities & Demigods, incl. Loviatar</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Siberian pantheon(s)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Inuit pantheon</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>2e Angakok wizard kit (Inuit shaman)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In Toril: the Ulutiun people (Inuit) of the Great Glacier; the Northern Wastes (Siberia); also the realm of Vaasa seems to have originally been conceived as quasi-Finnish.</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Finnish, Inuit, perhaps others</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Eastland Adventures</em></strong> (Slavic, Hungarian, Gypsy/Romany, Albanian; Caucasus?)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Taltos (Hungarian shaman) and Gypsy classes or themes, Baba Yaga, Kostchtchie</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Ravenfolk and Goatfolk PC races</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Slavic pantheon, Magyar pantheon. (Armenian and Georgian pagan pantheons?)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rashemen of Forgotten Realms</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Rhennee gypsies of Greyhawk</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Vosgaard of Birthright setting</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Mystara: Traladarans of Karameikos, Boldavia, and the City-States; the <a href="http://pandius.com/kavaja2.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">Goatmen of Kavaja</span></a>; the Duchies of Vyostograd and Stamtral in Norwold, from <em>CM4: Earthshaker</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Barovia, Nova Vaasa, and Vorostokov in Ravenloft</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>James Wyatt's <em><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041221151130/http://www.aquela.com/roleplaying/worlds.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">Petroyeska</span></a> </em>campaign setting</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Old Slavonic, Russian, Romany, Hungarian, Serbian, Albanian, perhaps others</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Pharaonic Adventures</em></strong> (or Egyptian Adventures)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Ancient Egyptian names for all the relevant D&D classes, races, equipment, spells, monsters, etc</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mulhorand in Forgotten Realms</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Erypt of Oerth</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Hutaakans and Thothia in Mystara; Nithia in the Hollow World</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Sebua and Har'Akir in Ravenloft--featured in the video game <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenloft:_Stone_Prophet" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #0066cc">Ravenloft: Stone Prophet</span></em></a></em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than <a href="http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr1407e.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #0066cc">Hamunaptra: Egyptian Adventures</span></em></a> and Gygax's Khemit</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Roman Adventures</em></strong></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em><em>HR5: The Glory of Rome</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thyatian Empire (Byzantine, but with ancient Roman features)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>James Wyatt's <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040704123127/http://aquela.com/roleplaying/SPQR/index.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #0066cc">Imperium Romanum</span></em></a> and <em><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041221151130/http://www.aquela.com/roleplaying/worlds.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">Shield of Faith</span></a> </em>settings</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Latin (also used for Old Oeridian)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than Green Ronin's <a href="http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr1410.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #0066cc">Eternal Rome</span></em></a> and Adamant Entertainment's <em><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040103175524/http://www.adamantentertainment.com/fvlminata_d20.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">FVLMINATA: Armed With Lightning</span></a></em></em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Arthurian Adventures</em></strong></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>The "Matter of Britain"</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models: How to use Cormyr as an Arthurian Campaign Model</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than Pendragon. Maybe even collaborate with Greg Stafford.</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Carolingian Adventures </em></strong><em>(or Frankish Adventures)</em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em><em></em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>The "Matter of France"</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em><em>HR2: Charlemagne's Paladins</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Model: Kingdom of Eusdria in Mystara</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Jambudvipa Adventures </em></strong><em>(or Bharatian Adventures)</em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em><em></em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>monsters: bhut, juggernaut</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossaries: Sanskrit, Tamil</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>1e and 2e Indian pantheons, Ascetic class in 2e Legends & Lore</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>CD&D Thug class in <em>Champions of Mystara</em> boxed set</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Kolhapur in stand-alone 2e adventure <em><a href="http://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/50175/the-star-of-kolhapur" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">Star of Kolhapur</span></a></em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>"Rhino's Armor, Tiger's Claws" Dragon #189</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>"Caste of Characters", "Monsoons & the Power of Om", and "Bazaar of the Bizarre" in Dragon #226, 227, 229</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sind, Jaibul, and Glantri's principality of Krondahar in Mystara; Rajahstan on the invisible moon of Patera; Shajapur in Hollow World</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Utter East of Forgotten Realms</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Zindia/Zahind of Oerth</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Sri Raji in Ravenloft</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>3e Mahasarpa campaign</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than Green Ronin's <em>Mindshadows</em></em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Anahuac Adventures</em></strong> (or <em>Mesoamerican Adventures</em>)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Olmans in Oerth</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Maztica, formerly in Toril, now in Abeir</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Mystara: Schattenalfen, Oenkmar, Oceotl catfolk; Azcan Empire in the Hollow World</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>monsters: sahuagin, ixitxachitl</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Classical Nahuatl</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Persian Adventures</em></strong> (pre-Islamic only? or all times? maybe Islamic Persia included in <em>Emirate Adventures</em>)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Ancient Persian</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Sublime Adventures</em></strong> (or <em>Ottoman Adventures</em>; or include with <em>Emirate Adventures</em>)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Model: Mystara's <em>Great Hagiarchy of Huyule</em>, and colony of Bogdashkan on the Jungle Coast; also gnolls of Gnollistan, lead by N<strong>i</strong>z<strong>a</strong>m Pasha (N<strong>a</strong>z<strong>i</strong>m Pasha was Chief of Staff of the army of the Ottoman Empire, and “pasha” is an Ottoman title)</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Himalayan Adventures</em></strong></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Yeti, Yak-folk</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Tibetan and Nepalese</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tabot (Tibet) and Ra-Khati (Nepal) in Toril</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Mystara: Lhamsa in the Principalities of Glantri, and the Snow Pardasta catfolk</em></strong></li> </ul></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Dreamtime Adventures</em></strong></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Osse continent of Forgotten Realms</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Wallara chameleon-men in Mystara</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossary: Western Desert Language</em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>Oceanic Adventures </em></strong>(<em>or Island Adventures, or South Sea Adventures, or Pacific Adventures</em>; Micronesian, Melanesian, and Polynesian)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Gamer glossaries: Hawaiian, Maori, Tok Pisin, perhaps others</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Kara-kara (quasi-Melanesian) of Isle of Dread (located in Mystara, Oerth, and Feywild of Nerath)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Mystara: Makai of Ierendi and the Hollow World</em></strong></li> </ul></li> </ul><p><em><strong>Medieval Adventures</strong></em> (medieval western & central Europe of D&D Earth).</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Covers post-tribal, pre-renaissance Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, British cultures (though <em>Arthurian Adventures</em> is its own genre; perhaps Carolingian genre is included in <em>Medieval Adventures</em>)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Similar to <a href="http://www.xrpshop.citymax.com/catalog/item/3906392/6232094.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe</span></a> by Expeditious Retreat Press. </em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>D&D Earth equivalents of Christian clerics, etc</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Resources:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>2e HR: Crusades</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>3e Robin Hood mini-setting from Dragon Magazine</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models: (though most D&D countries are quasi-medieval, only those which are mostly inspired by Real World medieval western European countries would be featured in this book)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Robin Hood</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Crusades</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Amn (Spain) in Faerun</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Narvaez (Inquisition Spain) in Mystara</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than Green Ronin's <a href="http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr1403e.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #0066cc">Medieval Players Manual</span></em></a></em></strong></li> </ul><p><em><strong>Renaissance Adventures</strong></em> (post-medieval, pre-industrial western and central Europe of D&D Earth)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Elizabethan England, Italian Renassiance, Age of Reason, Three Musketeers, etc.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Resources:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">AD&D2e<em> HR4: A Mighty Fortress</em></em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>Age of Adventure</em> campaign model from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D20_Past" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">d20 Past</span></a></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>In Mystara: Bellayne (Elizabethan English catfolk), Renardy (Absolutist French dogfolk), several Glantrian principalities (Averoigne/France, Caurenze/Italy, Fenswick/England, etc.), Minrothad Guilds</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Chondath in Faerun (renaissance Italy)</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Tharquish Empire (British Empire) in Oerth</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>several Ravenloft domains</em></strong></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Sea_%28role-playing_game%29" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">7th Sea</span></a></em></strong></li> </ul><p><strong><em>New World Adventures </em></strong>(or<em> Colonial Adventures</em>)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Focuses on the settler/immigrant cultures of North and South America, from the 1500s through the 1700s. The indigenous cultures are covered in <em>D&D Turtle Island Adventures, Anahuac Adventures</em> (Aztec and Maya), <em>Tawantinsuyu Adventures</em> (Incan), and<em> Amazonian Adventures.</em></em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Campaign Models:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New Waterdeep (British North America) and New Amn (New Spain) in Toril</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Mystara: Texeiras (Brazil), Almarron (Mexico), Guadalante (Argentina), Torreon, <a href="http://www.pandius.com/nren.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">Nouvelle-Renardie</span></a> (Louisiana), Free City of Dunwick and Richland (British colonies) in the Savage Coast</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Capoeira "Battle-dancer" PC class; other colonial North and South American classes.</em></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>It it's too much to fit North and South America in one book, then perhaps include all South American cultures (immigrant and indigenous) into a single <em>Tawantinsuyu Adventures</em> book.</em></strong></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Better than <em><a href="http://www.atlas-games.com/crown/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">Northern Crown: New World Adventures</span></a> </em>by Atlas Games; maybe collaborate to make Northern Crown a campaign model.</em></strong></li> </ul><p></p><p><strong><em></em></strong><strong>From: </strong><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/home" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><strong>https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/home</strong></span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dungeonosophy, post: 5846334, member: 6688049"] [B][I] [B][I]D&D Next culture books:[/I][/B] [LIST] [*]Culture books modeled on [I]Oriental Adventures[/I]. Split OA into different culture books. [*]Real World-based classes, PC races from mythology, themes, equipment, monsters, spells, deities [*]Several D&D Earth campaign models in each book. (Same world as the Earth glimpsed in various D&D or d20 Modern products.) [*]Equivalent of Department-7 in each culture book. Knighthood of the Seven in medieval culture, Sodality of the Seven in indigenous cultures. [*]Also "culturocentric Earth" campaign model for each, where even the world map is shaped how that culture traditionally perceived the world. Like the "Norse alternate world" called Midgard in the Mystara cosmology, which is mentioned in the [I]Northern Reaches[/I] Gazetteer [*]Other campaign models show how to use this material in published D&D Worlds, laying out explicitly which D&D fantasy cultures are based fully or partly on Real World cultures. Acknowledges that some settings (such as Mystara) use RW inspirations directly, while other settings (such as Greyhawk and Ravenloft) tend to mix or alter RW elements; and some settings (such as Dark Sun and Eberron) avoid RW influences, but the crunchy bits can still be useful in those settings. [*]Gamer glossaries for key languages of each culture. For example, in [I]Cathayan Adventures[/I], includes Chinese names for all the relevant D&D classes (e.g. Fighter = Wushi), equipment, monsters, spells, etc.; [I]Zipangu Adventures[/I] gives Japanese names for the relevant D&D classes, (Fighter = Bushi) etc. [*]The less popular cultures done as Dragon magazine articles or web-enhancements [*]Each of these are lovingly crafted, so that each might be the epitome of their genre, while benefiting from being coupled with the streamlined 5e rules system. They aim to be better than all the existing rpgs which feature those cultures. [/LIST][B][I]Emirate Adventures[/I][/B] (or [I]Arabian Adventures[/I] or [I]Caliphate Adventures[/I]; but "Arabian" excludes the Islamic Persian and Ottoman cultures, and "Caliphate" or "Caliphal" may be touchy since its the title of the Islamic "pope") [LIST] [*]Sha'ir class [*]Gamer glossary: Arabic (and Persian and Ottoman Turkish?) [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]D&D Earth campaign models at key points in Middle-eastern history. [*]"Emirate Earth": A D&D setting whose map comes from early [URL="http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/222_al-Qazwini.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]Islamic world maps[/COLOR][/URL], with south at the top of the map. [*]In Toril: Zakhara, Calimshan, and the Bedine of the Anauroch Desert [*]Mystara's Emirates of Ylaruam and the Desert Nomads (quasi-Afghan) [*]Phazaria in the Amber Wastes of Ravenloft [*]Land of Arir in the stand-alone 1e adventure [I]I9: Day of Al-Akbar[/I] [*]Desert of Desolation, stand-alone 1e adventure trilogy, later placed in Faerun's Plains of Purple Dust; Also, GAZ2 suggested placement in Mystara's Ylaruam [*]Khinasi of Birthright setting [*]Bakluni peoples of Greyhawk [/LIST] [*]Better than [URL="http://paradigmconcepts.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=14"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Tales of the Caliphate Nights[/I] True20[/COLOR][/URL] [/LIST][B][I]Cathayan Adventures[/I][/B] [LIST] [*]Wuxia [*]Gamer glossary: Chinese (Kara-Tur-style Wade Giles spellings and modern Pinyin spellings) [*]2e [I]Dragon Fist[/I] [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]D&D Earth campaign models in key moments in Chinese history [*]"Cathayan Earth" campaign model, with a world that is really shaped like [URL="http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/231_Asian_Religious_Mappaemundi_1.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]traditional Chinese worldmaps[/COLOR][/URL]. [*]Shou Lung and T'u Lung in Toril [*]I'Cath in Ravenloft [*]Ochalea in Mystara [*]Celestial Imperium/Shaofeng/Sufang of Oerth [/LIST] [*]Invite Chris Pramas to co-author. [/LIST][I][B]Zipangu Adventures[/B] (or Nipponic Adventures)[/I] [LIST] [*]Chanbara (swordfighting) and other genres [*]Gamer glossary: Japanese [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Kozakura and Wa in Toril [*]In Mystara: Empire of Myoshima on Mystara's invisible moon of Patera; also Yasuko barbarians of the Jungle Coast, and the rakastas of the Yazak Steppes in the Savage Coast [*]Nippon/Ryuujin of Oerth [*]Rokushima Taiyoo in Ravenloft [*]3e Rokugan/Lot5R [/LIST] [*]Better than [I]Legend of the Five Rings [/I]and[I] Sengoku[/I] [/LIST][I][B]Nubian Adventures[/B] [/I] [LIST] [*]Gamer glossaries: Swahili, Zulu, Kongo, Hausa, perhaps others [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]The Touv in Oerth [*]Katashaka continent and Jungle of Chult in Forgotten Realms [*]The Wildlands in Ravenloft (The Crocodile King is an evil version of the Lion King) [*]In Mystara: Yavdlom (Swahilis), Ulimwengu (pygmies), N'jatwaland and Simbasta lion-folk in Davania, Tangor in Skothar, Tanagoro (Zulu) in Hollow World [/LIST] [*]Better than [URL="http://www.atlas-games.com/nyambe/"][COLOR=#0066cc]Nyambe[/COLOR][/URL]. Maybe collaborate with Atlas Games since Nyambe is aleady such a well-crafted Campaign Model. [/LIST][B][I]Celtic Adventures[/I][/B] [LIST] [*]leprechaun PC [*]monsters: redcap, banshee [*]Gamer glossaries: Irish, Welsh, perhaps others [*][I]HR3: Celts[/I] [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]The Ffolk of the Moonshae Isles in Toril [*]In Mystara: Principality of Klantyre (Scotland), Province of Redstone (Ireland), Kingdom of Robrenn (Gaul) (and adjacent quasi-Celtic goblinoids), and Thratian Hinterlands (tribal Conan-style Old Irish "Cimmerians") [*]Forlorn Domain in Ravenloft [/LIST] [*]Better than [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A1ine:_The_Role_Playing_Game_of_Celtic_Heroes"][COLOR=#0066cc]Sláine[/COLOR][/URL] [/LIST][B][I]Koryoan Adventures[/I][/B] [LIST] [*]Gamer glossary: Korean [*]Campaign Model: Koryo in Toril [/LIST][B][I]Turtle Island Adventures[/I][/B] [LIST] [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Anchorome continent of Forgotten Realms [*]In Mystara: Atruaghin Clans, Red Orcs, Yazi goblinoids [*]Rovers/Arapahi of Greyhawk (like Arapaho) [/LIST] [*]Resources: 1e Amerindian pantheon, Atruaghin Gazetteer [*]Gamer glossaries: Mohawk, Lakota, Arapaho, Tlingit, Hopi, Navajo, perhaps others [/LIST][B][I]Suvarnabhumi Adventures[/I][/B] (or [I]Golden Land Adventures[/I]; Southeast Asia) [LIST] [*]Gamer glossaries: Malay, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Burmese, Thai [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]On the [URL="http://pandius.com/patera.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]invisible moon of Patera[/COLOR][/URL] of the World of Mystara: Selimpore (Singapore), Malaycalog (Philippines), Kompor-Thap (Cambodia), Surabayang (Malay) [*]Malatra and other lands in the south of Kara-Tur of the Forgotten Realms [/LIST] [/LIST][B][I]Babylonian Adventures[/I][/B] (or [I]Mesopotamian Adventures[/I]) [LIST] [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Unther of Forgotten Realms (pre-Spellplague) [*]In Mystara: Nimmur and Enduks of Eshu [*]Ishtarland in western Oerth? [/LIST] [*]Babylonian pantheon from 1e [*]Babylonian deities from 2e [I]Return to the Keep on the Borderland[/I] [*]scorpion-folk [*]Gamer glossaries: Akkadian, Sumerian [/LIST][B][I]Biblical Adventures[/I][/B] [LIST] [*]D&D Earth's equivalent of Biblical Palestine [*]Gamer glossary: Ancient Hebrew [*]Better than Green Ronin's [URL="http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr1019e.html"][I][COLOR=#0066cc]Testament[/COLOR][/I][/URL] [/LIST][B][I]Tawantinsuyu Adventures[/I] [/B][I](or Incan Adventures)[/I] [LIST] [*]Gamer glossaries: Quechua and Aymara [*]Campaign Model: Oltec of Mystara's Hollow World [*]Non-WotC: Southern Cross continent mentioned in Northern Crown setting. [/LIST][B][I]Amazonian Adventures[/I] [/B](perhaps merge with [I]Tawantinsuyu Adventures?)[/I] [LIST] [*]Gamer glossary: Guarani, Old Tupi, Yanomami [*]Campaign Models: In Mystara: Phanatons of Jibaru (on the Savage Coast) and Manacupuru (in Davania) [/LIST][B][I]Tatarian Adventures[/I][/B] (or [I]Turanian Adventures[/I]; Central Asian Mongols, Turkics, and Scythians) [LIST] [*]Gamer glossary: Mongolian, Old Turkic, Scythian (or invented Scythian-style names, since the language is barely recorded) [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Horse Plains of Toril; also Murghôm ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Forgotten_Realms_nations#Murgh.C3.B4m"][COLOR=#0066cc]said by Rich Baker[/COLOR][/URL] to be partly evocative of the Turanians of the Conan stories) [*]In Mystara: the Ethengar Khanates, Yellow Orcs, and hobgoblins of Hobgobliny; also Jennites (Scythians) of Mystara's Skothar continent and in the Hollow World [*]Tiger Nomads and Wolf Nomads of Greyhawk [/LIST] [/LIST][B][I]Hellenic Adventures[/I][/B] [LIST] [*]Dryad, Centaur, Satyr, Minotaur PC races [*]monsters: lamias, titans [*]Gamer glossary: Classical Greek [*][I]HR6: Age of Heroes[/I] [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]D&D Earth at key moments in Greek history (Trojan War, etc.) [*]"Hellenic Earth" where the world is really shaped like the ancient Greek worldview, like [URL="http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/105_Homers_World_View.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]these Homeric worldmaps[/COLOR][/URL]. [*]Mystara: Minaeans (Minoans) near Skothar; Milenian colonies of the Grass Coast; Cathos and Vacros; Milenians and Traldar of Hollow World [*]Chessenta of Forgotten Realms [/LIST] [*]Better than Green Ronin's [URL="http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr1405e.html"][I][COLOR=#0066cc]Trojan War[/COLOR][/I][/URL] [/LIST][B][I]Northern Adventures[/I][/B] (Norse-Germanic) [LIST] [*]Gamer glossary: Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon [*]1e Norse pantheon [*][I]HR1: Vikings[/I] [*]3e Asgardian pantheon [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]The Northmen of the Moonshae Isles of Forgotten Realms [*]The Northern Reaches of Mystara (Vestland=Sweden, Ostland=Denmark, Soderfjord=Norway) and the Heldann Freeholds (Iceland) before the invasion of the Knights. The Midgard "Norse-centric" world mentioned in GAZ7. [*]Rjurik of Birthright setting [*]The Ice, Snow, and Frost Barbarians of Oerth [/LIST] [/LIST][B][I]Hyperborean Adventures[/I][/B] (Finnish, Siberian, and Inuit-Aleut) [LIST] [*]Finnish pantheon from 1e Deities & Demigods, incl. Loviatar [*]Siberian pantheon(s) [*]Inuit pantheon [*]2e Angakok wizard kit (Inuit shaman) [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]In Toril: the Ulutiun people (Inuit) of the Great Glacier; the Northern Wastes (Siberia); also the realm of Vaasa seems to have originally been conceived as quasi-Finnish. [/LIST] [*]Gamer glossary: Finnish, Inuit, perhaps others [/LIST][B][I]Eastland Adventures[/I][/B] (Slavic, Hungarian, Gypsy/Romany, Albanian; Caucasus?) [LIST] [*]Taltos (Hungarian shaman) and Gypsy classes or themes, Baba Yaga, Kostchtchie [*]Ravenfolk and Goatfolk PC races [*]Slavic pantheon, Magyar pantheon. (Armenian and Georgian pagan pantheons?) [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Rashemen of Forgotten Realms [*]Rhennee gypsies of Greyhawk [*]Vosgaard of Birthright setting [*]In Mystara: Traladarans of Karameikos, Boldavia, and the City-States; the [URL="http://pandius.com/kavaja2.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]Goatmen of Kavaja[/COLOR][/URL]; the Duchies of Vyostograd and Stamtral in Norwold, from [I]CM4: Earthshaker[/I] [*]Barovia, Nova Vaasa, and Vorostokov in Ravenloft [*]James Wyatt's [I][URL="http://web.archive.org/web/20041221151130/http://www.aquela.com/roleplaying/worlds.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]Petroyeska[/COLOR][/URL] [/I]campaign setting [/LIST] [*]Gamer glossary: Old Slavonic, Russian, Romany, Hungarian, Serbian, Albanian, perhaps others [/LIST][B][I]Pharaonic Adventures[/I][/B] (or Egyptian Adventures) [LIST] [*]Gamer glossary: Ancient Egyptian names for all the relevant D&D classes, races, equipment, spells, monsters, etc [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Mulhorand in Forgotten Realms [*]Erypt of Oerth [*]Hutaakans and Thothia in Mystara; Nithia in the Hollow World [*]Sebua and Har'Akir in Ravenloft--featured in the video game [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenloft:_Stone_Prophet"][I][COLOR=#0066cc]Ravenloft: Stone Prophet[/COLOR][/I][/URL] [/LIST] [*]Better than [URL="http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr1407e.html"][I][COLOR=#0066cc]Hamunaptra: Egyptian Adventures[/COLOR][/I][/URL] and Gygax's Khemit [/LIST][B][I]Roman Adventures[/I][/B] [LIST] [*][I]HR5: The Glory of Rome[/I] [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Thyatian Empire (Byzantine, but with ancient Roman features) [*]James Wyatt's [URL="http://web.archive.org/web/20040704123127/http://aquela.com/roleplaying/SPQR/index.html"][I][COLOR=#0066cc]Imperium Romanum[/COLOR][/I][/URL] and [I][URL="http://web.archive.org/web/20041221151130/http://www.aquela.com/roleplaying/worlds.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]Shield of Faith[/COLOR][/URL] [/I]settings [/LIST] [*]Gamer glossary: Latin (also used for Old Oeridian) [*]Better than Green Ronin's [URL="http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr1410.html"][I][COLOR=#0066cc]Eternal Rome[/COLOR][/I][/URL] and Adamant Entertainment's [I][URL="http://web.archive.org/web/20040103175524/http://www.adamantentertainment.com/fvlminata_d20.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]FVLMINATA: Armed With Lightning[/COLOR][/URL][/I] [/LIST][B][I]Arthurian Adventures[/I][/B] [LIST] [*]The "Matter of Britain" [*]Campaign Models: How to use Cormyr as an Arthurian Campaign Model [*]Better than Pendragon. Maybe even collaborate with Greg Stafford. [/LIST][B][I]Carolingian Adventures [/I][/B][I](or Frankish Adventures) [/I] [LIST] [*]The "Matter of France" [*][I]HR2: Charlemagne's Paladins[/I] [*]Campaign Model: Kingdom of Eusdria in Mystara [/LIST][B][I]Jambudvipa Adventures [/I][/B][I](or Bharatian Adventures) [/I] [LIST] [*]monsters: bhut, juggernaut [*]Gamer glossaries: Sanskrit, Tamil [*]1e and 2e Indian pantheons, Ascetic class in 2e Legends & Lore [*]CD&D Thug class in [I]Champions of Mystara[/I] boxed set [*]Kolhapur in stand-alone 2e adventure [I][URL="http://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/50175/the-star-of-kolhapur"][COLOR=#0066cc]Star of Kolhapur[/COLOR][/URL][/I] [*]"Rhino's Armor, Tiger's Claws" Dragon #189 [*]"Caste of Characters", "Monsoons & the Power of Om", and "Bazaar of the Bizarre" in Dragon #226, 227, 229 [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Sind, Jaibul, and Glantri's principality of Krondahar in Mystara; Rajahstan on the invisible moon of Patera; Shajapur in Hollow World [*]Utter East of Forgotten Realms [*]Zindia/Zahind of Oerth [*]Sri Raji in Ravenloft [*]3e Mahasarpa campaign [/LIST] [*]Better than Green Ronin's [I]Mindshadows[/I] [/LIST][B][I]Anahuac Adventures[/I][/B] (or [I]Mesoamerican Adventures[/I]) [LIST] [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Olmans in Oerth [*]Maztica, formerly in Toril, now in Abeir [*]In Mystara: Schattenalfen, Oenkmar, Oceotl catfolk; Azcan Empire in the Hollow World [/LIST] [*]monsters: sahuagin, ixitxachitl [*]Gamer glossary: Classical Nahuatl [/LIST][B][I]Persian Adventures[/I][/B] (pre-Islamic only? or all times? maybe Islamic Persia included in [I]Emirate Adventures[/I]) [LIST] [*]Gamer glossary: Ancient Persian [/LIST][B][I]Sublime Adventures[/I][/B] (or [I]Ottoman Adventures[/I]; or include with [I]Emirate Adventures[/I]) [LIST] [*]Campaign Model: Mystara's [I]Great Hagiarchy of Huyule[/I], and colony of Bogdashkan on the Jungle Coast; also gnolls of Gnollistan, lead by N[B]i[/B]z[B]a[/B]m Pasha (N[B]a[/B]z[B]i[/B]m Pasha was Chief of Staff of the army of the Ottoman Empire, and “pasha” is an Ottoman title) [/LIST][B][I]Himalayan Adventures[/I][/B] [LIST] [*]Yeti, Yak-folk [*]Gamer glossary: Tibetan and Nepalese [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Tabot (Tibet) and Ra-Khati (Nepal) in Toril [*]In Mystara: Lhamsa in the Principalities of Glantri, and the Snow Pardasta catfolk [/LIST] [/LIST][B][I]Dreamtime Adventures[/I][/B] [LIST] [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Osse continent of Forgotten Realms [*]Wallara chameleon-men in Mystara [/LIST] [*]Gamer glossary: Western Desert Language [/LIST][B][I]Oceanic Adventures [/I][/B]([I]or Island Adventures, or South Sea Adventures, or Pacific Adventures[/I]; Micronesian, Melanesian, and Polynesian) [LIST] [*]Gamer glossaries: Hawaiian, Maori, Tok Pisin, perhaps others [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]Kara-kara (quasi-Melanesian) of Isle of Dread (located in Mystara, Oerth, and Feywild of Nerath) [*]Mystara: Makai of Ierendi and the Hollow World [/LIST] [/LIST][I][B]Medieval Adventures[/B][/I] (medieval western & central Europe of D&D Earth). [LIST] [*]Covers post-tribal, pre-renaissance Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, British cultures (though [I]Arthurian Adventures[/I] is its own genre; perhaps Carolingian genre is included in [I]Medieval Adventures[/I]) [*]Similar to [URL="http://www.xrpshop.citymax.com/catalog/item/3906392/6232094.htm"][COLOR=#0066cc]Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe[/COLOR][/URL] by Expeditious Retreat Press. [*]D&D Earth equivalents of Christian clerics, etc [*]Resources: [LIST] [*][I]2e HR: Crusades[/I] [*]3e Robin Hood mini-setting from Dragon Magazine [/LIST] [*]Campaign Models: (though most D&D countries are quasi-medieval, only those which are mostly inspired by Real World medieval western European countries would be featured in this book) [LIST] [*]Robin Hood [*]Crusades [*]Amn (Spain) in Faerun [*]Narvaez (Inquisition Spain) in Mystara [/LIST] [*]Better than Green Ronin's [URL="http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr1403e.html"][I][COLOR=#0066cc]Medieval Players Manual[/COLOR][/I][/URL] [/LIST][I][B]Renaissance Adventures[/B][/I] (post-medieval, pre-industrial western and central Europe of D&D Earth) [LIST] [*]Elizabethan England, Italian Renassiance, Age of Reason, Three Musketeers, etc. [*]Resources: [LIST] [*]AD&D2e[I] HR4: A Mighty Fortress[/I] [/LIST] [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*][I]Age of Adventure[/I] campaign model from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D20_Past"][COLOR=#0066cc]d20 Past[/COLOR][/URL] [*]In Mystara: Bellayne (Elizabethan English catfolk), Renardy (Absolutist French dogfolk), several Glantrian principalities (Averoigne/France, Caurenze/Italy, Fenswick/England, etc.), Minrothad Guilds [*]Chondath in Faerun (renaissance Italy) [*]Tharquish Empire (British Empire) in Oerth [*]several Ravenloft domains [/LIST] [*]Better than [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Sea_%28role-playing_game%29"][COLOR=#0066cc]7th Sea[/COLOR][/URL] [/LIST][B][I]New World Adventures [/I][/B](or[I] Colonial Adventures[/I]) [LIST] [*]Focuses on the settler/immigrant cultures of North and South America, from the 1500s through the 1700s. The indigenous cultures are covered in [I]D&D Turtle Island Adventures, Anahuac Adventures[/I] (Aztec and Maya), [I]Tawantinsuyu Adventures[/I] (Incan), and[I] Amazonian Adventures.[/I] [*]Campaign Models: [LIST] [*]New Waterdeep (British North America) and New Amn (New Spain) in Toril [*]Mystara: Texeiras (Brazil), Almarron (Mexico), Guadalante (Argentina), Torreon, [URL="http://www.pandius.com/nren.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]Nouvelle-Renardie[/COLOR][/URL] (Louisiana), Free City of Dunwick and Richland (British colonies) in the Savage Coast [*]Capoeira "Battle-dancer" PC class; other colonial North and South American classes. [*]It it's too much to fit North and South America in one book, then perhaps include all South American cultures (immigrant and indigenous) into a single [I]Tawantinsuyu Adventures[/I] book. [/LIST] [/LIST] [LIST] [*]Better than [I][URL="http://www.atlas-games.com/crown/"][COLOR=#0066cc]Northern Crown: New World Adventures[/COLOR][/URL] [/I]by Atlas Games; maybe collaborate to make Northern Crown a campaign model. [/LIST] [/I][/B][B]From: [/B][URL="https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/home"][COLOR=#0066cc][B]https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/home[/B][/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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