Greece Campaign Questions.

[Tonguez]

http://www.geocities.com/zozergames/delphi-adventure.html Heroes of Delphi RPG

 

[gamerprinter]

I've been working on my own Bronze Age Pre-Hellenistic setting that involves the entirety of a European analog, and not just an Aegian analog. I am far more interested in the time of Homer, when the old legends were born and the legendary monsters were thought to exist in various corners of the known world. My PCs will begin as Celts from someplace like Britannia, take an irish long boat traveling along the coast and entering the Mediterranean Sea analog as traders and adventurers. I want to combine the legends and cultures of the Celts, Thracians, Phoenicians, Minoans, Mycenaens, Carthaginians for a more complete Bronze Age world. I want to emulate the voyages of Odyseus, Jason (and the Argonauts), Beowulf, even the adventuring concepts from Conan and the world of Hyborea (but not magic weak like Sword & Sorcery). I'm not so interested in a battlesystem styled Thermopylae minatures play, rather a small group fighting harpies, a minotaur in a labrynth, a medusa in an old ruin, visiting the Oracle of Delphi, etc.

I also want to incorporate the active participation of the deities who offer advice, direction, point out flaws of thinking, and offer boons that the PC can activate for emergencies, but not actually grant spells or take a direct hand in helping the mortals. PCs would most likely encounter the deities in dreams, while completely alone, at prayer, or in disguise, not as open conversations between the PC party and a given immortal. And just because the gods are active doesn't necessarily mean this is a high magic setting.

Didn't realize this was an ancient necro'd thread...