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There is no comparison between the Vietnam War and World War II, nor is there one between the Iraq War and World War II. World War II is in a league all of its own.

The truth is, Europeans were Europeans whether they were Christian or Pagan, they fought and built empires regardless of what they believed in. Peasants at the time found Christianity more personally satisfying than the pagan religions, and the warlords had to give a nod to that, so they became...

Yes it was, people were murdering each other in the name of Christ! That seems to indicate that they weren't good Christians. the Christian philosophy was to turn the other cheek and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Christianity is supposed to be a religion of peace, and...

Because that is the labels that are most recognizable to readers here, also they are referred to as Norse gods in Deities and Demigods. Too bad they never published a Deities and Demigods book for 4th and 5th edition D&D, they prefer to use Forgotten Realms or Grayhawk or Krynn deities, but I...

But at the time of Christopher Columbus, the printing press existed while in the time of Leif Ericson, it did not, and thus it was easier to keep secrets in the year 1000 AD than it was in 1492. So we're talking about a pagan world with active gods and monsters that has a printing press. The...

Well there is no Christianity or Islam, so that gives you a fairly good idea, about the time Jesus Christ would have died but didn't seems like a good split off point, somewhere around 30 AD I'd hazard to guess. The Roman Gods also make their presence known, and I suppose if there are Roman...

Well of course, that goes without saying. Here is a map of a Europe gone wild! In place of cities, there are ruins, and of course the Roman Gods walk the Earth among the monsters and various other races that inhabit it...

Well look at those Roman provinces on the map then, they could be the names of the post Roman countries. Ireland becomes Hibernia, England becomes Britannia, they had those names before Christianity existed. France is known as Gaul in this setting. Basically the new kingdoms keep their own Roman...

It is pure fantasy because of the magic in the setting, that alone would throw history off. The Romans didn't really have magic, they had beliefs and superstition instead. The Emperor could make himself out to be a god with impunity, and no one dared challenge him in this because of his position...

Imagine a standard Dungeons and Dragons setting Post Roman Empire, yet the Roman Gods stuck around, and the various successor nations that broke off of the Empire still worshipped those gods. As for Christianity, Jesus never was crucified, and that ended that. No religion called Christianity...

Because you can be original and make up your own stuff without some historian saying this is wrong. Also the Roman gods weren't real, the Emperor could declare himself a god without inciting Jupiter's wrath, but what happens if we change this assumption? Maybe an Emperor declaring himself a god...

Does the Emperor of Rome usually get along with the Gods of Rome, particularly Jupiter? Are there gods of Rome, and do they have much to say? How is this handled if we are assuming a fantasy setting?

Only the labeled orbits actually exist. the outer orbits past orbit 5 are impossible in this system because of the gravitational influence of the second star which is in that elliptical orbit that you see, it has its own set of orbits that I mark with an apostrophe ' to distinguish them from the...

In case your wondering, I started out with the 1st Edition Deities and Demigods, I tried to get the 3rd edition download PDF, but all I got was the first 5 pages and a whole lot of blank pages after that, so I began the work of converting the 1st edition god entries into 3rd edition. I doubled...

Here is the first Greek/Roman god that enters the Realms that I stated out in 3rd edition. She is very popular with the Roman soldiers. This goddess is in direct competition with Sune.

The Forgotten Realms have their own version of "Native Americans" in Maztica. Also the Romans don't evoke a lot of sympathy, no one's going to say the Romans were misunderstood or mistreated. Romans were conquerors not the conquered.

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

Here is a map of sectors 1, 2, and 3. Each square is 1 light year across.

Here is the nearest destination outside the Solar System

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.