Classical Mythology RPG?

[DMKastmaria]

There's Mazes and Minotaurs, an OGL OSR clone that imagines a "what-if" Greek Mythology and epic films of the 1960s were the background for D&D rather than LOTR. link

There's also XCrawl, a D&D 3rd edition setting set in pseudo-modern America that uses the Roman pantheon. link

Mazes & Minotaurs isn't a clone, but it's Old School inspired. AFAIK, it's not OGL either. Totally free, with tons and tons of free support. Great fluff, if you prefer to use a different system.

 

[Thotas]

Green Ronin also put out a Greco-OGL product. Can't remember the name of it, and my own copy is misfiled in one of the many unopened boxes from the last time I moved, it appears. It was pretty good, if memory serves.

 

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[Bedrockgames]

Reported.

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[Mercutio01]

Why was he reported?

It's spam, not a person with a legitimate post. That's a bot scraper that copy-pasted someone's earlier suggestion and has other posts that do the same thing. Look at the second post, and you'll see that it's exactly the same as what trancejeremy posted.

 

[Vicente]

There is a very old Spanish RPG about Greek mythology called "Oraculo" (Oracle).

Oráculo | RPG Item | RPGGeek

I remember some nice memories of playing it when I was very young, but probably it has not aged very well.

 

[Evenglare]

Which? Greek, or Roman? There was actually quite a lot of differences between them, despite the fact that the Romans applied the names of their gods to the Greek myths (for what it's worth, the did the same to the Celtic gods, the germanic gods, the Persian gods, etc. too--although no doubt they saw the Greeks as much more kindred-type spirits than any of those groups.)

I don't quite know what you mean. From the very beginning, Greek mythological sources were pretty heavily represented in D&D; certainly as much so as Nordic sources. You could very easily run a Greek mythology based campaign using just stuff in the basic monster manuals. And for that matter, the war between the gods and primordials in the 4e implied setting is pretty much straight out of Greek mythology with the serial numbers filed off.

I don't know of any entire RPG that's dedicated to Greek mythology, although it wouldn't surprise me to find out that there is one. For that matter, I don't know of one that does that for nordic mythology, although I seem to recall hearing of a Swedish language RPG that was heavily Nordic mythology focused (which shouldn't exactly be surprising.)

Well, I have taken several mythology courses, and while yes, the Romans have adopted other gods, Greek gods are obviously at the forefront of their pantheon. Most people are aware of the duality of Greek and roman gods. When you see Jupiter, you know it's Zeus, then you hear of Venus, it's Aphrodite. Honestly, it just seems as if you are attempting to troll me, which is fine, I just figured you would understand the duality of roman and Greek gods. Many classic myths have been written with both roman gods in place of Greek gods. The Aeneid comes to mind being a direct sequel to the odyssey and the Iliad.

The reason I say most rpgs come from a Nordic myth is because most fundamental races such as elves and dwarves get their origin from there. You don't really see satyr and centaurs as races. I do understand there are MONSTERS which heavily draw on classical myth, the fact that the basis of fantasy comes from Tolkien fantasy which itself is derived from Nordic myth. Also , the titans vs the gods, are not exclusive to Greek myth. Nordic myth has the gods vs the Jotun which are the giants, which can be analogous to the titans.

And just a general comment, it's extremely annoying to have a post deconstructed sentence by sentence to tell a person why they are wrong, or at least implying it.

 

[edemaitre]

Greco-Roman deities

In addition to the books I posted earlier (including the Green Ronin ones [MENTION=18974]Thotas[/MENTION] asked about) is the D20 Lore of the Gods, which is pretty good and at least the equal of many of the more recent official pantheon books from Wizards of the Coast.

 

[Alaxk Knight of Galt]

Is there any such RPG that deals with greek/roman gods? I mean, all the fantasy stuff generally comes from nordic myths, due to lord of the rings and roleplaying games stemming off of that, which is fine. But now I am looking for some sort of greek rpg, considering the HUGE ammount of fantasy is in those myths im surprized I havnt come across one.

Wikipedia is always your friend
I'd start with the Twelve Olympians and go from there

In planning for a 4E, Classical Mythology game (inspired by the Clash of the Titans trailer), I setup four Greek City-States (Sparta, Athens, Thebes, and Corinth) and reskinned all the fantasy races to humans from one on those cities.

Athens
Known for Knowledge, Culture, and Learning
Patron: Athena
Races: Human, Genasi, Deva, and Eladrin

Corinth
Known for trade, wealth and culture
Patron: Aphrodite
Races: Human, Half-Elves, Halflings, Kalashtar

Sparta
Known for rigid dicipline, military life, and fierce warriors
Patron: Ares
Races: Human, Goliath, Half-Orcs, and Dragonborn

Thebes
Known for stubbornness, crafts, and military prowess (second only to sparta)
Patron: Hephaestus (though this might have been a reach)
Races: Human, Warforged, Gnoll, Dwarf

After I did that, ideas flowed pretty quickly

 

[Desdichado]

Well, I have taken several mythology courses, and while yes, the Romans have adopted other gods, Greek gods are obviously at the forefront of their pantheon. Most people are aware of the duality of Greek and roman gods. When you see Jupiter, you know it's Zeus, then you hear of Venus, it's Aphrodite. Honestly, it just seems as if you are attempting to troll me, which is fine, I just figured you would understand the duality of roman and Greek gods. Many classic myths have been written with both roman gods in place of Greek gods. The Aeneid comes to mind being a direct sequel to the odyssey and the Iliad.

No, the Romans own gods were at the forefront of their pantheon, and there were some significant differences between the religion/mythology of the Greeks and the Romans--in spite of the fact that there were also similarities.

In general, I'd say that Greek mythology is fairly well represented in RPGs, particularly D&D. The same is not true of Roman mythology. There's no Mithraic mystery cults. Janus and Vesta--if you can find them at all--are so deeply in the background that it's difficult to say what, exactly, they are all about. The Greek gods were all about being flawed, with foibles and human weaknesses. The Roman gods were inscrutible and distant and idealized. The Greeks saw Ares as vain and foolish, the Romans saw Mars as heroic, and the patron of their nation--no similarity to Ares really at all (except general portfolio.)

To name just a handful of significant differences. I guess it really depends on what you mean by a game based on a certain mythology.

The reason I say most rpgs come from a Nordic myth is because most fundamental races such as elves and dwarves get their origin from there. You don't really see satyr and centaurs as races. I do understand there are MONSTERS which heavily draw on classical myth, the fact that the basis of fantasy comes from Tolkien fantasy which itself is derived from Nordic myth.

See, if you mean based on a certain mythology in that general of a sense, well, then I guess it doesn't really matter too much about the details. Use D&D. There are already rules for using satyrs, fawns, dryads, minotaurs, etc. as PC races if you want. I don't know of any settings that really focus on that, but then again, just because D&D tends to have elves and dwarves as PC races doesn't really make those games very Viking-like either.

Also , the titans vs the gods, are not exclusive to Greek myth. Nordic myth has the gods vs the Jotun which are the giants, which can be analogous to the titans.

Sure, and if you believe Georges Dumezil, then all Indo-European mythologies have the remnants of some primal story where the gods defeated some race of autochthonous monster or giant in order to establish themselves. And if you believe Joseph Campbell, then all myths essentially tell the same story.

Personally, I think reducing the myths to the point where that can be done makes them so vague as to be nonsensical. But the gods vs. primordials war in 4e has too many specific points of similarity to the Greek story to be likely to have been based on anything else.

And just a general comment, it's extremely annoying to have a post deconstructed sentence by sentence to tell a person why they are wrong, or at least implying it.

You know what else is annoying? Asking really vague questions, and then getting all snippy when someone who wants to help asks for clarification to better home in on what exactly you are asking for.