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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7978119" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>People like to talk about fairy tales with Midgard, but it's not a fairy-tale world, and I'm not really sure why people say that. You see flashes of it from time to time, but it's just an element, not a key thing.</p><p></p><p>It's much more in line with certain kind of older fantasy setting, like that of Gygax's Dangerous Journeys, where you have a bunch of of cultures/kingdoms based very loosely on human cultures from various time periods, together with some entirely fictional cultures, and none of it really makes sense, but it has a distinct sense of style. As Parmandur says, these match up with locations pretty well. People say "Eastern Europe", but that's literally one kingdom in many, and even it's not <em>very</em> Eastern Europe. And that it seems like it's an older setting is probably because it is - it's a homebrew from the early '90s (and I suspect even older than that in some ways), and was even in the Civ II (!!!!!!!) fantasy setting expansion "Fantastic Worlds".</p><p></p><p>It's also dark and scary without being full of ridiculous nonsense. It's not like some games we've seen over the last few years where there are demons rampaging everywhere, and everything "METAL AS HELL!!!". Nor is it over the topic gothic like Ravenloft. It's a quieter, creepier, more encompassing kind of scary-ness, that's less personal in some ways. I mean, they do have a terrifying vampire kingdom but somehow it seems to fit in pretty well, rather than seeming OTT.</p><p></p><p>It also has some fairly silly stuff going on, like clockwork Warforged which you can bring people back as instead of res'ing them.</p><p></p><p>It's got a lot of style, but my group voted between playing an AP there and Odyssey of the Dragonlords (an the ancient Greek-influenced setting/AP), and we picked Odyssey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7978119, member: 18"] People like to talk about fairy tales with Midgard, but it's not a fairy-tale world, and I'm not really sure why people say that. You see flashes of it from time to time, but it's just an element, not a key thing. It's much more in line with certain kind of older fantasy setting, like that of Gygax's Dangerous Journeys, where you have a bunch of of cultures/kingdoms based very loosely on human cultures from various time periods, together with some entirely fictional cultures, and none of it really makes sense, but it has a distinct sense of style. As Parmandur says, these match up with locations pretty well. People say "Eastern Europe", but that's literally one kingdom in many, and even it's not [I]very[/I] Eastern Europe. And that it seems like it's an older setting is probably because it is - it's a homebrew from the early '90s (and I suspect even older than that in some ways), and was even in the Civ II (!!!!!!!) fantasy setting expansion "Fantastic Worlds". It's also dark and scary without being full of ridiculous nonsense. It's not like some games we've seen over the last few years where there are demons rampaging everywhere, and everything "METAL AS HELL!!!". Nor is it over the topic gothic like Ravenloft. It's a quieter, creepier, more encompassing kind of scary-ness, that's less personal in some ways. I mean, they do have a terrifying vampire kingdom but somehow it seems to fit in pretty well, rather than seeming OTT. It also has some fairly silly stuff going on, like clockwork Warforged which you can bring people back as instead of res'ing them. It's got a lot of style, but my group voted between playing an AP there and Odyssey of the Dragonlords (an the ancient Greek-influenced setting/AP), and we picked Odyssey. [/QUOTE]
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