"Greek Myth" campaigns (kinda) -- Thoughts?

[Akrasia]

Quite a few recent d20 products concern mythic (Homeric) Greece.

Examples:

1. OGL Ancients (Mongoose).
2. Olympus -- or somthing like that (from S&S).
3. Trojan War (Green Ronin).
4. New Argonauts (SRK games -- or whatever his company is called).

And then there is the usual (excellent) GURPS sourcebook, plus the (pre-resurrection) ICE Greece book, and so forth... (But these are old.)

Which one is best? Are there views? Do any actually include, y'know, adventures?

 

[Mighty Halfling]

I'd like to hear some reviews too.

 

[DragonLancer]

I'm tempted to pick up S&S Olympus (I liked thier Excalibur book), so I can work on converting the Scarred Lands to the mythic greece feel the original blurb gave it.

 

[JoeGKushner]

R&R Greece is like Excalibur. A sourcebook for standard d20 fantasy games that provide tools to help capture some of the elements of that setting. I've got a review of that one coming up soon.

One of my friends has the OGL Ancients book and enjoys it but it sits on his bookshelf collecting dust. He's not really interested in running that type of cmapaign and picked it up to see what he could steal for his regular campaign.

 

[Crothian]

If you are looking for adventures, none of them really have adventures. But both R&R Olympus and the Argonauts books have adventure/campaign ideas. I don't have Trojan War or the Ice book, but I am using the other 4 in my own homebrew.

 

[Psion]

I have a review of Trojan War up. It has some decent material in it, but it has some real weakensses.

I should have a review of R&R Olympus up inside of a week.