Anyone else excited over OGL Ancients?
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Neo
Explorer
Very much looking forward to this book, partyl because I was one of the playtesters but also because it really is awesome!
As an aside even for those who don't fancy the idea of roleplaying in Ancient Egypt/Greece and that time period there are some REALLY good additions, ruleswise in this book that would contribute greatly to any D20 fantasy campaign.
As an aside even for those who don't fancy the idea of roleplaying in Ancient Egypt/Greece and that time period there are some REALLY good additions, ruleswise in this book that would contribute greatly to any D20 fantasy campaign.
Zarrock God of Evil
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Neo said:
Care to elaborate? Surely something of value can be found for use with Mulhorand, Unther and Chessenta in the FR
-Zarrock
Voadam
Legend
talien said:Damn...
I have a 108 page document I'm nearly finished completing tentatively called "Ancient Adventures" that is precisely this topic.
Would there be room for two products on the same topic? No? I thought not.
I KNEW it was a good idea...
Egypt
Testament (green Ronin)
War in Heliopolis (Avalanche)
Necropolis (SSS)
Egyptian Gods (Bastion)
Deities and Demigods (WotC)
Twilight of Atlantis (Avalanche and tangential Egypt)
Settings with Egptian transplants
Forgotten Realms (plus the Red wizards are Egyptian transplant offshoots)
Ravenloft
Settings with Egyptian-like culture
Twin Crowns (living Imagination)
probably others
I have seven of the above products and I'd still like to see a good pdf on the subject (Egyptian Gods focuses mostly on the gods avatars).
talien
Community Supporter
Actually, it's 90% Ancient Greece, 10% Gauls and other peoples. Egypt gets grouped into "Libya" with a dash of Amazons, Gorgons, and Atlanteans.Voadam said:
If I can't find another route for it I may just go the self-publishing route, but the advent of this new game is disheartening -- but good for Mongoose for seeing a need that I thought hadn't been filled yet either.
trancejeremy
Adventurer
Well, there should be room. While the Mongoose book seems to be more definitive, being much larger, it's also probably much pricier.
talien
Community Supporter
Well, here's what I have so far:d4 said:
* 11 races, including the Amazon, Autochthon, Centaur, Cyclops, Gorgon, Harpy, Minotaur, Myrmidon, Nymph, Satyr, and Spartus. Each race has its own racial progression as well (which are not taken from Savage Species, incidentally).
* 36 city-state backgrounds, similar to occupations for d20 Modern.
* 7 new primary classes to replace the d20 fantasy classes, including the Aoidos, Hoplite, Panmahaist, Hippeus, Oracle, Peltast, and Pharmakis. There's also tweaks to the Aristocrat, Barbarian, Druid, Expert, and Rogue classes.
* Rules on Allegiances and Areti (honor) and how it affects gameplay.
* 54 new feats, including fatal flaws. Still being expanded upon.
* 7 new prestige classes, including the Asclepiada, Amazon Archer, Cretan Archer, Homoioi, Lycaeon Zeus, Mastigophora, Rhodian Slinger, and Telchine. There's still a lot more I'd like to flesh out, at least one prestige class for each major deity.
* Lots of new equipment, monsters, and magic items. Haven't fully fleshed this out yet.
Any publishers interested? You can contact me at http://michael.tresca.net.
I suspect the 800 lb. Mongoose will make publishing the product less likely.
P.S. There is some inevitable overlap with Testament, but not much because Testament paints the setting with much broader strokes. It would be fully compatible with Testament, however.
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