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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 9201175" data-attributes="member: 9254">While I know it's a facetious/sarcastic question, it is worth thinking about the impact of Rome on the broad stroke of history and gaming assumptions.So the short answer is they created Europe, particularly western Europe, as you know it.  Therefore Rome is baked into everything D&D is based on. Whether it is influencing migration along the Danube, creating the foundation of the feudal system & serfdom, bringing chivalric knights (equestrian-class cataphracts) to the Atlantic coast or building a road network that underpins a huge swath of the European transportation system, pretty much all pre-modern socio-economic aspects of Europe are due to Rome.  And let us not forget being pivotal in the creation & promulgation of christianity, the genesis of the rabbinical form of judaism or providing much of the conditions required for Islam to flourish.I can't say how a world without Rome would look but it's clear that absolutely nothing today would look as it is if Rome had fallen to Carthage.   Imagine if the Europeans who had arrived in China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia or the Americas were woad-wearing Celts rather than the Europeans who inherited the ideals of empire.Which of course means it's all fertile ground for a game setting.</blockquote>