What if the Roman Empire conquered the Forgotten Realms?

[MNblockhead]

This does have me thinking...I'm kinda more interested in what would happen if some force from the FR, e.g. the Wizards of Thay, invaded our world.

In the nuclear age, are we more than a match for the magical powers of high-fantasy FR evils?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I suppport the idea of homebrew retcon, reboot or mash-up in the RPGs. A planar invasion by Olimpian pantheon's followers isn't totally impossible in D&D at all, but my suggestion is PCs time spheres, something like a mixture of the hollow earth from Mystara, uchronies and parallel worlds with some little changes in the timeline.

And why not adding new characters? For example Kratos o Xena.

 

[Thomas Bowman]

This does have me thinking...I'm kinda more interested in what would happen if some force from the FR, e.g. the Wizards of Thay, invaded our world.

In the nuclear age, are we more than a match for the magical powers of high-fantasy FR evils?

Well I was trying to make a real world setting in the Middle Ages a while back and I got in trouble for that on this site. Now Forgotten Realms is not a real world setting, and the Olympian gods aren't real world either, though actual people did believe in them at some time in the past, but these gods have depth and story, they have fables and there are many different sources going back to antiquity, and also there's the fact that our planets are named after them, that helps a great deal!

 

[Derren]

This does have me thinking...I'm kinda more interested in what would happen if some force from the FR, e.g. the Wizards of Thay, invaded our world.

In the nuclear age, are we more than a match for the magical powers of high-fantasy FR evils?

Depends on the edition as magic power varied widely. In 5E probably not. Wizards still make very capable terrorists but they have nothing to oppose a modern military force. In 3E, probably also 2E there were ways to make you immune to non magical damage.

 

[Thomas Bowman]

I suppport the idea of homebrew retcon, reboot or mash-up in the RPGs. A planar invasion by Olimpian pantheon's followers isn't totally impossible in D&D at all, but my suggestion is PCs time spheres, something like a mixture of the hollow earth from Mystara, uchronies and parallel worlds with some little changes in the timeline.

And why not adding new characters? For example Kratos o Xena.

Diana/Artemis is kind of Xena on steroids. You see this is the Time of Troubles, so the Gods walk Toril. Diana is the huntress. A Roman Xena would look a bit different from what the show depicts.

 

[Shasarak]

This does have me thinking...I'm kinda more interested in what would happen if some force from the FR, e.g. the Wizards of Thay, invaded our world.

In the nuclear age, are we more than a match for the magical powers of high-fantasy FR evils?

I would guess that as the Red Wizards struggle to deal with Rashemen they would have no chance in invading Earth Prime.

 

[Thomas Bowman]

Depends on if there is magic on Earth for them to work their spells, if not then its just mumbo jumbo and they wave their hands around and nothing happens.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Now I remember the Roman "Xena" was the goddess Bellona.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellona_(goddess)

Do you know? I miss the pre-islamic pantheon (Sumerians and company) to create stories about war among deities, something lie Percy Jackson's saga.

 

[Thomas Bowman]

The Babylonians and Sumerians will be even more poorly armed than the Romans, at least the Romans had some steel weapons.

 

[MNblockhead]

Well I was trying to make a real-world setting in the Middle Ages a while back and I got in trouble for that on this site. Now Forgotten Realms is not a real-world setting, and the Olympian gods aren't real world either, though actual people did believe in them at some time in the past, but these gods have depth and story, they have fables and there are many different sources going back to antiquity, and also there's the fact that our planets are named after them, that helps a great deal!

You didn't "get in trouble," there was no thread ban, you just had some people warn about the pitfalls of using historical native American groups in a D&D campaign. If you had native Americans invading forgotten realms, I suppose some of those who raised concerns in the other thread would raise them here as well. That this thread didn't invite a similar conversation was mostly due to your using the Romans and less to due which groups went to which place.