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You represent the arms, armour & equipment appropriate for the time, I don't think it's that difficult, it goes without saying you don't include weapons from later periods beyond the setting. I'm not sure about "there is a significant risk of snapping if they are used as swinging weapon" really...

I would be quite amused if a player wasn't interested in a setting because they didn't like the weather! ;) What's important from my point of view is those things that directly influence the players and their characters, during a game. it's your point 4 that's the most tricky and to some extent...

Indeed, I was being provocative, since you seem quite dismissive without much or any experience of (for example) Mythic Britain or the not yet released Mythic Babylon. Imagining fictional Bronze Age settings is very much my hangup as I thought I'd made clear. I quite liked Glorantha in the 80s...

er, yeah, I understood what was written. Personally I find it difficult to separate the historical Bronze Age I'm mostly familiar with (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Near East) from the idea of a Bronze Age setting independent of the specific historical context, with the exception of Glorantha, and that...

I don't know, perhaps you could suggest some?

Anything? You don't like entirely fictional bronze age settings, and you don't like mythological historically-based bronze age settings. Okay.

Yup, I barely know any dice pool systems as they've always seemed a bit silly and pointless to me, but Mutant Year Zero changed my mind with its pushing mechanics. GURPS doesn't seem to fit, neither would a system like Traveller but I could see people were putting them into the mix, including...

You have been clear, but it might be worth checking something a bit more up to date, after all, you are comparing D&D4E (2008?) with editions of RuneQuest that came out over 25 years before that. RQ6 and now Mythras dates from 2012.

It's not. I thought the definition of a dice pool system was counting the number of "hits" and not adding up the numbers and comparing that to a target number - which is what GURPS does. From what I can see posters are mixing things up.

A windlass crossbow can go over 1000lbs draw weight quite easily. It does not need anywhere near the strength of a 200lb longbow. Your mistake is comparing the power of the bows by using draw weight only, there are many other factors, draw length being one of the most important. Longbows have...

There's a lot of detail about Mythic Babylon, discussed by the authors here: (begins 4 minutes in) https://www.buzzsprout.com/266482/1479823-1-4-by-the-mythras-of-babylon One of the things they have done is write new magic systems appropriate for the setting which aren't the same as the core...

This is a bit crazy, a novice can't pick up and fire a 200lb longbow so I am not sure why you are mixing the two, novices can't manage the draw weight of a bow like that, more likely they could just about draw a 20lb bow which is not going to be used as a warbow. 200lb by itself is the top end...

I've no idea why this "simulates actions and results realistically". If you think, for example, getting a result between 01-50 is just as likely as getting a "00" result then I have to tell you that's not how probability works or percentile dice work. You don't roll to hit a number, you roll to...

RuneQuest 6 uses 5-second rounds during which most human characters can make 3 actions. The addition of Special Effects have dramatically improved the verisimilitude and interest of RQ combat, although they add complexity, combats now don't end when opponents have been chopped to bits, but...

What makes you say this? Why are dice pools better?

Try Forbidden Lands or Mutant Year Zero, both have large quickstarts which detail the mechanics. Give either one a go it might help you understand the appeal.

Mythras and Mythic Britain does this. You get a Bernard Cornwell-style depiction of Arthurian Britain, much closer to historical reality than you see in Excalibur for instance, but the spirits of Annwn Britain and the Saxon supernatural world are real, as well as a look-in from the early...

It takes the D&D structure and tropes - races, classes, monsters, magic and translates them into Mythras mechanics. So Half-Orcs, Humans, Half-Elfs, Elfs, Dwarfs, Halfings & Gnomes are supported as PCs. Each race has their own characteristic differences and each gets special ablities - the...

5 out of 5 rating for Waterlands: Adventures in the Great Mire Waterlands is best used with the Mythic Britain campaign book, the big adventure does stand on its own outside of the Mythic Britain campaign. You will need the character generation guidance to make appropriate PCs as it's slightly...

5 out of 5 rating for Mythic Britain Has the flavour of Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles and adds some fantastical and mythic elements from British Druidism and early British Christianity. The campaign represents British druidism as animists in touch with the spirit world of Britain...