D&D 5E Arkadia vs Theros: Sell me on or off

[Greg K]

I think so, as a fellow classicist, as Theros also rubs me the wrong way, despite liking a lot of individual bits of it. It's just sort of too-similar and too-distant at the same time. Discordant.

Odyssey of the Dragonlords is the one that works best for me - it's Greek "enough" but not extreme. It also has some really interestingly designed subclass options which push the mythic Greece vibe pretty well (unlike Theros), one for each class too.

Ruin Explorer, what do you mean by, "but not extreme"?

 

[jgsugden]

If you know enough Greek lore to care about what is accurate/authentic, then you don't need a setting. All the mythic monsters are in the core rules. As for weapons and armor, reskinning those is easy.

Dragonlords is a hybrid of Game of Thrones and Greek myth. While elements have a very Greek myth feel to me, others are absolutely not Greek. It feels to me like someone put their Krynn Dragonlance Chocolate in my Greek Mythos Peanut Butter. It works, but you would not make a PB&J with it.