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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 4650463" data-attributes="member: 6533">The Bronze Age is bitchin no matter how you swing it.And I think Byzantium or the Early Medieval/Late Classical period are the best models for an awesome DnD game ever.Early histories of Livy Rome would work awesomely well and is suitably heroic.But the best thing to do is set it in the Early and Middle Republican period of Rome so you have Greek Successor states and city states, Carthaginian trade cartels, and Roman clients all roaming around a mediterranean and near east that - by the literary sources - was full of low scale wonders and strange magics.You get the best of Greek and Rome without later Roman stability or early Greek overwhelming madness.And - of course - you've got to Pulp it up to the Nth degree:Harry Hausen monstersgods speaking through maskswitchescurseslycanthropestraces of AtlantisHyperborean GiantsDruidsMagiexotic slavesEbon Carthaginian Trade Ships arriving by nightElephantsLionsWeird versions of the aboveSacred Bears hiding in the hills of ItalyCultsChild SacrificeTatooed Barbarians drugging themselves into frenzyChariotsMad Priests in obscure templesGreek MachineryHeroic RelicsBanners bearing the blessings of nationsEgyptian AstrologersAlchemy...and so forth</blockquote>