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<blockquote data-quote="Asmodeus" data-source="post: 391694" data-attributes="member: 1084">I'm wondering if any of you good people on this boards have ever used Byzantium and the city Constaninople in their games or replicas thereof?I'm planning a campaign set aronud the city and the politics within. It could be either doing their zenith or maybe at the point of decline and eventual fall to the Ottomans. Do you have any ideas? Wha about links?My initials thoughts for such a setting would be to drastically cut down on magic to give it a more gritty feel. So I axed the druid and sorcerer, reworked the bard and ranger and made paladins and clerics prestige classes.Now the basics of Constantinople is the fact that it is the capital and holy city of the empire with an ancient history and so on. I'm thinking of having the emperor rule by divine might (represented by being a proxy from D&amp;Dg) God is distant and those who cast spells are looked upon as saints. Of course there are the pagan gods still in existence like the Greek/Roman pantheon and the Germanics gods but they are only believed by pagans and savages beyond the empire.Also maybe ahve an opposing vibrant religion with their own one god rising from South. I know some say to use the real world as my history but I would prefer to avoid seeing some of my players scramble for history books for metagaming reasons.Any ideas?Enjoy</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Asmodeus, post: 391694, member: 1084"] I'm wondering if any of you good people on this boards have ever used Byzantium and the city Constaninople in their games or replicas thereof? I'm planning a campaign set aronud the city and the politics within. It could be either doing their zenith or maybe at the point of decline and eventual fall to the Ottomans. Do you have any ideas? Wha about links? My initials thoughts for such a setting would be to drastically cut down on magic to give it a more gritty feel. So I axed the druid and sorcerer, reworked the bard and ranger and made paladins and clerics prestige classes. Now the basics of Constantinople is the fact that it is the capital and holy city of the empire with an ancient history and so on. I'm thinking of having the emperor rule by divine might (represented by being a proxy from D&Dg) God is distant and those who cast spells are looked upon as saints. Of course there are the pagan gods still in existence like the Greek/Roman pantheon and the Germanics gods but they are only believed by pagans and savages beyond the empire. Also maybe ahve an opposing vibrant religion with their own one god rising from South. I know some say to use the real world as my history but I would prefer to avoid seeing some of my players scramble for history books for metagaming reasons. Any ideas? Enjoy [/QUOTE]

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