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<blockquote data-quote="Blackwind" data-source="post: 3004739" data-attributes="member: 1205">I like historical fantasy.&nbsp; We did a few mini-campaigns based on the green books; our Viking campaign was my favorite.&nbsp; The PCs were all aged 12-18, a band of boys, really, and had their own ship.&nbsp; Much havoc ensued.We even did a one-shot set during the English Civil War.&nbsp; But it was kind of... meh.Mostly, though, I used those books as inspirations for my homebrews - alongside other historical texts from the library.&nbsp; One kingdom, for example, was similar to the Byzantine Empire but had a religion that was sort of an analogue of Mithraism.&nbsp; One thing that really bugs me about so many published settings is the way that certain cultures are obviously Arabian, or Japanese, or whatever...&nbsp; can't we create new, original fantasy cultures by blending together certain elements and sprinkling in new ones?&nbsp; It really shakes my suspension of disbelief when you get things like Faerun surrounded by Maztica, the Hordelands, Kara-Tur, et al.&nbsp; I hear that Monte Cook's Praemal setting even has a country called Uraq.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blackwind, post: 3004739, member: 1205"] I like historical fantasy. We did a few mini-campaigns based on the green books; our Viking campaign was my favorite. The PCs were all aged 12-18, a band of boys, really, and had their own ship. Much havoc ensued. We even did a one-shot set during the English Civil War. But it was kind of... meh. Mostly, though, I used those books as inspirations for my homebrews - alongside other historical texts from the library. One kingdom, for example, was similar to the Byzantine Empire but had a religion that was sort of an analogue of Mithraism. One thing that really bugs me about so many published settings is the way that certain cultures are obviously Arabian, or Japanese, or whatever... can't we create new, original fantasy cultures by blending together certain elements and sprinkling in new ones? It really shakes my suspension of disbelief when you get things like Faerun surrounded by Maztica, the Hordelands, Kara-Tur, et al. I hear that Monte Cook's Praemal setting even has a country called Uraq. [/QUOTE]

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