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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 874369" data-attributes="member: 6533">Greece, with the exception of the Persians, tended to get invaded from the North and West.  Crete itself was invaded by the Myceneans at a very early period and then by the various tribes who entered Greece during the post-Mycenean dark ages.  I suppose that Egpyt or Phonecia had both the power and cultural contacts to make an invasion of Crete possible, but this never actually happened.  Egpyt thought of itself as a land power and Phonecia was never that militant.Crete has a very interesting history of its own, having been, apparently, the seat of Minoan civilization and always having been a fairly unified and independent player in Hellenestic politics.  They also had a reputation for art, weird religion, magic, and functioning as a refuge for embattled political thought.Sparta is located in the center of Pellopenesia, the southern peninsula of mainland Greece.  If you're thinking about Greece I would also highly recommend you read at least the first portion of Thucydides History of the Pellopenesian War.In terms of DnDing Greece there are probably a lot of different, interesting, and valid strategies for doing so.If you really want to incorporate the Mythology, the MM has loads of stuff that is perfectly appropriate and the transition from DnD shouldn't be that difficult.   Everything else is going to require a lot of low magic/low tech adjustments.Something I would think it important to emphasize is that the power of clerics is going to be kept in real check by the incredibly bizarre ritual life that the deities are going to demand of them.  We are talking everything from very specific taboos to spending a lot of time and energy on organizing and holding 'mystery' celebrations in honor of the god.  Wizards and Sorcerors are a little bit more difficult except as things that require multi-classing or that are learned from other cultures.  Some Greek traditions of arcane magic would probably develop in a religious context such as that of the Pythagoreans, and I could also picture some Greek city states, Rhodes and Crete maybe, and institutions developing specific arcane traditions of their own, but overall I think the most common, influential, and free magic using class is probably going to be the bard.Not only would traditional bards be everywhere but you could fit DnD versions of the Philosophers into that class with very little effort.  Druids would be around and very powerful, but only in the most rural areas.</blockquote>

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