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<blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 1287265" data-attributes="member: 2174"><p>>>></p><p>Posted by Erik Mona:</p><p>if I'm going to be doing "cultural" fantasy mini-games (which I've a mind to do) I'd rather focus on something that hasn't really been done before, like India, Egypt, Assyria, Nubia, etc.</p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>"Hasn't really been done before?" You have Mystara and Hollow World articles in the very issue being discussed here. </p><p>>>></p><p></p><p>Mmm hmmm. Real popular, that Hollow World. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>>>></p><p>Have you never heard of Sind (based on India, though at last glance more like India in the Mughal period, as they are under foreign domination)?</p><p>>>></p><p></p><p>I've only barely heard of this. I'd hazard to guess more than 98% of the active D&D player base has never heard of this. Hollow World was about as low-impact a "setting" anyone could have ever hoped for. The D&D Gaz stuff was only marginally better known. I confess that "fantasy India" has been done before, but I'd like to try to take a more modern approach. Oh, and tie it into Greyhawk, of course. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p> >>></p><p>Nithia (based on Egypt)? </p><p>>>></p><p></p><p>Not popular. Sorry.</p><p></p><p>>>></p><p>The Yavldom Divinarchy and Ulimwengu (based very loosely on sub-Saharan cultures, with a strong prophetic component for Yavldom)? You could set your mini-games there, for a change of flavor, and reel in some of the old Mystara fans as well... </p><p>>>></p><p></p><p>These ones I've actually never heard of, but I trust you. Hasn't Mystara been liscenced by Kenzer, or something? I probably won't be doing much with it in the magazine, although I do confess a certain fondness for some of the original basic D&D adventures and Dave Arneson's Blackmoor stuff.</p><p></p><p>Was there an ancient Nubia analogue in the Known World?</p><p></p><p>--Erik</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Erik Mona, post: 1287265, member: 2174"] >>> Posted by Erik Mona: if I'm going to be doing "cultural" fantasy mini-games (which I've a mind to do) I'd rather focus on something that hasn't really been done before, like India, Egypt, Assyria, Nubia, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hasn't really been done before?" You have Mystara and Hollow World articles in the very issue being discussed here. >>> Mmm hmmm. Real popular, that Hollow World. ;) >>> Have you never heard of Sind (based on India, though at last glance more like India in the Mughal period, as they are under foreign domination)? >>> I've only barely heard of this. I'd hazard to guess more than 98% of the active D&D player base has never heard of this. Hollow World was about as low-impact a "setting" anyone could have ever hoped for. The D&D Gaz stuff was only marginally better known. I confess that "fantasy India" has been done before, but I'd like to try to take a more modern approach. Oh, and tie it into Greyhawk, of course. ;) >>> Nithia (based on Egypt)? >>> Not popular. Sorry. >>> The Yavldom Divinarchy and Ulimwengu (based very loosely on sub-Saharan cultures, with a strong prophetic component for Yavldom)? You could set your mini-games there, for a change of flavor, and reel in some of the old Mystara fans as well... >>> These ones I've actually never heard of, but I trust you. Hasn't Mystara been liscenced by Kenzer, or something? I probably won't be doing much with it in the magazine, although I do confess a certain fondness for some of the original basic D&D adventures and Dave Arneson's Blackmoor stuff. Was there an ancient Nubia analogue in the Known World? --Erik [/QUOTE]
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