D&D General Favorite Fantasy Africa stuff

[Marc Radle]

So RPGs now have a number of fantasy versions of Africa or Afro-Fantasy to draw on. Which ones do you like and why?

Midgard has its big Southlands sourcebook for Pathfinder with some 5e separate support. A lot of Egypt flavored stuff, I have not dived into the other parts.

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[R_J_K75]

The Forgotten Realms has the Jungles of Chult from 2e D&D.

For the life of me I cant remember where I saw it, polyhedron, but I'm pretty sure there was a continent on Toril possibly by Kara-Tur that was modeled on Africa, Malatra. It wasn't ever detailed much as far as I know, but I remember coming across it somewhere.

 

[Voadam]

For the life of me I cant remember where I saw it, polyhedron, but I'm pretty sure there was a continent on Toril possibly by Kara-Tur that was modeled on Africa, Malatra. It wasn't ever detailed much as far as I know, but I remember coming across it somewhere.

Malatra was part of the RPGA system, their Living Jungle campaign. I had forgotten about that. I was never part of the RPGA but I came across their Malatra site at one point years ago. The link includes the Player's Info PDF, it is a jungle area in southern Kara Tur, so close, not a full continent. The people are a mix of dark brown skinned ancient spelljammers and the native human ethnicities of the region.

 

[Zardnaar]

Anyone got a good name for a fantasy not Mali?

 

[Voadam]

Anyone got a good name for a fantasy not Mali?

Bamako. The current capital.
Songhai, an empire in the region from the 15th to 16th centuries.
Wagadou was the name of the earlier Ghana Empire of the area, but the name is already associated with a 5e fantasy Africa setting.

 

[Zardnaar]

Bamako. The current capital.
Songhai, an empire in the region from the 15th to 16th centuries.
Wagadou was the name of the earlier Ghana Empire of the area, but the name is already associated with a 5e fantasy Africa setting.

That's alright they won't recognize the name.

 

[Marc Radle]

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[Voadam]

The Minotaur #10 for OSR Basic based Mazes & Minotaurs, details their Greek Fantasy Africa Charybdis.

 

[Voadam]

Searching for this thread again I found this other one I had completely forgotten about with some different resources like specific dragon and dungeon articles.

 

[Faolyn]

Yet we never see 'fantasy Africa' an advanced society with knights, guilds and so forth. They're invariably always 'noble savages' containing a pastiche of real world African stereotypes.

I recall conversations after Tomb of Annihilation came out, where people who wanted to see a more technologically equal African- or South American-style setting were accused of just wanting D&D Wakanda. Like the only possible choices are "noble savages" and "noble savages with magitech."