Vikings or Celts

[Herobizkit]

Vikings would be the more popular choice, given that their mythology is more familiar than that of the Celts... but you get kilts with Celts.

I'd say go Celts.

Heck, you already have Druids and Barbarians (and Rangers if you want) lumped in with the whole Celtic theme, so why not?

 

[MonsterMash]

Celts, but I'd go with an earlier dark ages setting - more sort of age of Arthur type thing when the Welsh and Irish could still be seen as pretty barbaric rather than a more feudal or medieval period.

 

[Prism]

We are playing an alternate celtic campaign at the moment - fantastic. Druids, barbabarians, hero's, woad, burial mounds, stone circles, giants!

I say alternate as our celtic world has the standard elves, orcs, gnolls, etc just with a celt slant on it

Oh, and the bad guys (from our point of view) are the norse, so why not try both

 

[GrumpyOldMan]

... but you get kilts with Celts.

Er, no you don't

 

[GrumpyOldMan]

To be fair, I'd have chosen Picts if given the option. They were fierce enough that their presence was used as a reason (if not the reason) to construct Hadrian's Wall.

Who do you thing the picts were, and how do they differ from the celts?

 

[GrumpyOldMan]

What about the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, or simply the anglo-saxons?

 

[Rolf]

Vikings

As I am Norwegian, I went for Vikings. Being from the coast, i have a love of boats and storms at sea. The vikings surely had boats that were among the better of their generation. This is reflected in the fact that they managed to get across to Newfoundland via Iceland and Greenland, at a time when the rest of Europe (excepts maybe som monks in Ireland) had no clue as to the existence of America. However, their failure to establish a permanent settlement there is also a sign that they were a barbarian culture who relied heavily on raiding and trade, and by no means could support anything so far away.

The great pro for vikings is that they could be encountered on any sea and any large river of Europe. They set forth in great expeditions, many reaching Constaninople (now Istanbul, but they called it Miklagard).

Of course, as a norwegian I have been thought much about vikings and their mythology at school, so both me and my plasyers can relate to them more easily.

 

[Darkness]

Historical-Europe-inspired? Ninja catgirls.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Celts, dude. I'm not saying that vikings aren't intimidating, but I've yet to find something more threatening than a bunch of rabid, berserking, woad-covered naked warriors charging into combat. Plus there's a lot more rules material to choose from with Celts (Slaine, Celtic Age, my own Bardic Lore line, plus older sources like AD&D Celts, or GURPS Celts).

Hm. Mind you, there's the old AD&D 2E Vikings sourcebook (as per Celts 2E), GURPS Vikings (as per GURPS Celts), Viking Age (as per Celtic Age), and a bunch of other things that I unfortunately can't remember right now. .

I'd say there's quite a bit for both.

Unlike (ahem) say, mythic/historical India, China, Mesopotamia. . . actually, my list is getting ridiculous.

I voted 'other', incidentally, as I like both those cultures equally in a RPG context.

 

[Enthusiastic Student]

Hmm. I'm from Denmark....

VIKINGS!