Romanesque world setting?

[ptolemy18]

"Imperial Rome", part of Green Ronin's Mythic Vistas line, is coming out in a few months.

I've heard that too, although I haven't seen anything on Green Ronin's site about it yet. Maybe the cover artist is slow (he said groundlessly).

I'm running a campaign set on a pseudo-Earth during the Roman Republic (not quite what you're asking about), and it's going pretty well. I will say the obvious, though: unless you're drastically cutting down the magic & demihumans & monsters from "standard" D&D, any Roman setting (like any historical setting) will rapidly mutate into its own weird fantasy setting. Once I accepted this, my world-building got a lot more fun, and now I've been going back through my campaign's timeline, injecting historical events with D&Disms ("Hannibal crossing the alps to invade Rome with elephants... naah... why not Hannibal crossing the alps with DRAGONS?!?!")

Jason

 

[ptolemy18]

Thanks everybody for the information. For now I bought three piecesm Morningstar, Roma Imperious, and the AD&D supplement. I would love to get the original FVLMINATA, but can't find it anywhere. And, I will get the Green Ronin one and the FVLMINATA D20 if that ever comes out.

Hey KnowTheToe -- if you tell me more about your Roman campaign, I'll tell you more about mine.

Jason

 

[KnowTheToe]

What I was thinking of doing was turning all of the Roman fears/superstitions into real things. For instance, if you look at the fall of Pompeii, from my campaign's point of view. The story starts out the disappearance of the Aquarius shortly followed by the failure of the aquaduct. The PC's investigate the murder and will find political intrigue and back stabbing. The slaves sent to work on the aquaduct feared that giants roamed the land and did not like to travel there.

In my campaign giants would live there and destroyed a section of the aquaduct. The PCs either fight or negotiate with the giants, and repair the aquduct. While the Aquduct was down it was the holiday to Volcanis, the god of fire and the roamn people were to throw fish into fires as a sacrafice to volcanis. Since the aquaduct went down during a drought, and the people were already angry over the loss of water, the city officials thought it would be bad news to have a large fire at night. So the officials ban the fire. Well, this angers Volcanis and he sends some greater fire elementals to the volcano (Mt. Vesuvius) to make these unworthy humans pay. The PCs are again sent to discover what the trouble is and have to negotiate and save the city of Pompeii or run for their lives and try to escape the fury of a god. Throw a few thug fights in and I think you get a good balance of RPing and combat.

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

That sounds awfully neat!