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<blockquote data-quote="Mystaros" data-source="post: 1360985" data-attributes="member: 3921"><p><strong>Several indispensible sources...</strong></p><p></p><p>"The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History" by Colin McEvedy. Very useful. Goes through 1483. You might also want to get a copy of the Ancient atlas, as it would give you a good idea of which ruins you would find where.</p><p></p><p>"The Epic of Aerth" by Gary Gygax. Designed for use with Dangerous Jrouneys: Mythus, this is the definitive high fantasy alternate Earth setting (okay, except maybe for the world of Ars Magica). If nothing else it will provide you a ton of ideas and comprehensive lists of resources by region.</p><p></p><p>"The Writers-Digest Character Naming Sourcebook" will help you name all those NPCs from across Europe and further...</p><p></p><p>The new Conan RPG provides an excellent sample of dividing human cultures into D&D cultural backgrounds. Heck, if you want to expand out the Hyborian Age to a "Renaissance" level, you even have a complete setting and system...</p><p></p><p>Your local Barnes & Noble or what have you should ahve several excellent atlases, including one of the Crusades, one that covers the Middle Ages and Renaissance in even more detail than the McEvedy atlases, plus several on the Templars (no campaign in alternate Europe would be complete without the Templars), and there is also an excellent encyclopedia on fortification out there, the name of which escapes me. Just go to the history section.</p><p></p><p>Also, if you don't want to go through all that work, the Lejendary Earth (or "Learth") setting for Gary Gygax's Lejendary Adventures is another alternate Earth setting, this time with more fantasy elements than Aerth or even Oerth. The two books released so far, the "Lejendary Earth Gazetteer" and "Noble Kings & Dark Lands" are enough to get a solid campaign going, with the Gaz covering the world in general and NKDL covering the continents that correspond to Europe (Varan) and Africa (Apphir) in great depth. As neither book has any game statistics, they are both chock full of setting information. Of course, I'm partial to the setting, as I'm working on the next volume ("Jewels of the East"), but it is one of the top game settings available, and next to the world of Ars MAgica, the top alternate Earth setting on the market today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mystaros, post: 1360985, member: 3921"] [b]Several indispensible sources...[/b] "The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History" by Colin McEvedy. Very useful. Goes through 1483. You might also want to get a copy of the Ancient atlas, as it would give you a good idea of which ruins you would find where. "The Epic of Aerth" by Gary Gygax. Designed for use with Dangerous Jrouneys: Mythus, this is the definitive high fantasy alternate Earth setting (okay, except maybe for the world of Ars Magica). If nothing else it will provide you a ton of ideas and comprehensive lists of resources by region. "The Writers-Digest Character Naming Sourcebook" will help you name all those NPCs from across Europe and further... The new Conan RPG provides an excellent sample of dividing human cultures into D&D cultural backgrounds. Heck, if you want to expand out the Hyborian Age to a "Renaissance" level, you even have a complete setting and system... Your local Barnes & Noble or what have you should ahve several excellent atlases, including one of the Crusades, one that covers the Middle Ages and Renaissance in even more detail than the McEvedy atlases, plus several on the Templars (no campaign in alternate Europe would be complete without the Templars), and there is also an excellent encyclopedia on fortification out there, the name of which escapes me. Just go to the history section. Also, if you don't want to go through all that work, the Lejendary Earth (or "Learth") setting for Gary Gygax's Lejendary Adventures is another alternate Earth setting, this time with more fantasy elements than Aerth or even Oerth. The two books released so far, the "Lejendary Earth Gazetteer" and "Noble Kings & Dark Lands" are enough to get a solid campaign going, with the Gaz covering the world in general and NKDL covering the continents that correspond to Europe (Varan) and Africa (Apphir) in great depth. As neither book has any game statistics, they are both chock full of setting information. Of course, I'm partial to the setting, as I'm working on the next volume ("Jewels of the East"), but it is one of the top game settings available, and next to the world of Ars MAgica, the top alternate Earth setting on the market today. [/QUOTE]
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