Can I vote earth, with all of earth's history, for any variety of historical/realistic RPGs?
I'll agree on Forgotten Realms: it has great maps and a lot of fiction, but very little political detail, and political detail there is, is piecemeal.Definitely historical, but sometimes I'm not always so sure on the realistic part!
I'd agree with the aforementioned Forgotten Realms and Tekumel. I don't know if it would deserve first place, but I'd also put Kingdoms of Kalamar in the running.
Thay invades Rashemon, inflicts some damage, and is repulsed by the berserkers and witches. Thay has some plans to do so again in the future.I'll agree on Forgotten Realms: it has great maps and a lot of fiction, but very little political detail, and political detail there is, is piecemeal.
I'll agree on Forgotten Realms: it has great maps and a lot of fiction, but very little political detail, and political detail there is, is piecemeal.
Novels might put the Realms over the top, but you should look at Paizo's catalog when it comes to Golarion. Something like 3 books a month for 12 years, not counting shorter adventures for organized play? There's an incredibly detailed wiki about the setting too. It's honestly fascinating.I would find it hard to believe that the Forgotten Realms does not have the most written about it. It does not have every noble bloodline, but the volume of setting material would be hard to match.
My vote is Middle Earth (for The One Ring) or Star Wars. Both are RPG settings and both have decades of detail and history.
That is a good contender. My gut would say FR, but they have dropped off significantly in production since 3e and Paizo has been cranking out regular setting material for over a decade.Novels might put the Realms over the top, but you should look at Paizo's catalog when it comes to Golarion. Something like 3 books a month for 12 years, not counting shorter adventures for organized play? There's an incredibly detailed wiki about the setting too. It's honestly fascinating.
I"m not sure what 'fairness' has to do with anything. It's just a factual question. I don't think Harn's feelings are going to get hurt.I remember a friend of mine voicing his preference for the West End Games version of the gate in the late 1980s. "I like Star Wars because, unlike Star Trek, the universe is wide open and you can do whatever you want." My, my. How times have changed.
Sometimes I think the line is a bit blurred when it comes to multi-media intellectual properties. Battletech has a rich and highly detailed setting, but when it comes to the Mechwarrior RPG, most of the setting material is actually found in the 200+ novels and various splat books for the table top war game rather than the role playing game. I don't know if it's fair to compare Star Wars, Battletech or Dune (it's an RPG now) to Harn.