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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JPL" data-source="post: 1106537" data-attributes="member: 1964">Here's what I figured out on the drive to work:Two setting ideas I've been kicking around a Conan-type sword-and-sorcerysetting and a Greek mythology/epic setting where everyone plays a demigod.And I've been trying to figure out if the two are actually compatible.And here's the biggest difference:  the sword-and-sorcery hero, like Conan,is always free, always in control of his own destiny.  The Greek hero, eventhe son of a god, felt the hand of fate a lot more strongly [often expressedas the gods medddling with things, but that's the same thing as fate ---powers beyond your control controling what happens].  So although I have noparticular need for deep thoughts in an RPG, the big question presented hereis, can a man ever truly be the master of his own destiny?Anyway...sort of a classical Bronze age thing, pre-cataclysm Atlantis,warring city states along the Mediterranian, Celtic/Viking pagans to theNorth, great corrupt exotic empires to the South and East, cults devoted todark alien deities, multiple meddling pantheons with a tendency to knock uppretty mortals, and heroes with the power of the gods and the hearts ofmortals...perhaps with a destiny, or perhaps with whatever destiny they makefor themselves.</blockquote>