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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 3682161" data-attributes="member: 10913">The Forgotten Realms seems to fit the bill nicely - very detailed, very close to core, and at least in most cases they have reasonable names. Another option I'd recommend is Birthright - it's a setting very well designed for this as it is all about the feuds over the toppled kingdom's throne, and has a lot of political information. It's for 2nd Edition, but that just means the material is available for cheap as pdfs (I'd recommend going to birthright.net first, though - some great free and new material). The problem with Birthright is that it also has a system of "divine blood" that sets who gets to rule and grants supernatural powers - this can work well for you, but if you don't want to adapt it will be a problem. It also boasts a "board-game" level of play where the players, well, try to take over the world on the political scale - but this is easier to ignore, if you want straight-up D&D world conquest. The setting is also for AD&D not 3e, but I don't consider that a major problem.As a personal lesson from many nights playing Civilization, though - there is nothing like conquering the real world. Consider simply playing in a high-fantasy version of Earth. If I wanted to set something like that up, I think I'll pick up Northern Crown (describing a mythic America) and play in America just before contact with the Europeans. Once the conquest of America is almost done, I'll introduce the Europeans as a new threat, reversing the course of history - this time the Americas will conquer Europe, not the other way around...</blockquote>

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