What kind of Earth society/culture would you like written up?

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

mmm, Fertile Crescent...

I would like to see some write up of the fertile crescent with Babylonia et al.

I mean on the right you have the Indus valley and the invasions that would create hinduism, and on the left you have...

the Minoans, Myceneans, and Atlantis.

Not to mention capturing that Conan feel with odd gods, sorcerors, and exotic city states not so much covering the land in their empires as breaking up the monotony of the wilderness with their weirdness.

I'd also like to put forward a vote for historical non-historical settings like Hy-Brasil, Prester John's lands, wherever St. Brendan went, and wherever St. Christopher, the dog headed saint, came from.

 

[BOZ]

india was the first thing that came to mind, for me.

 

[Darklance]

I second GURPS stile write ups. For those who wish to add fantasy elements...a section in the back maybe? I find it's much easier to add than to take away.

 

[Drakmar]

a lot of the Aborigine history/stories are really interesting.. in a campaign setting you would be able to include a lot of the Dreamtime stuff.. there has been a Shadowrun sourcebook based in Australia.. but the main gist of that was - you can talk to Aussies about the normal taboo subjects as much as you like (you know.. sex, drugs, religion, politics).. but if try to get funky with talk about sports well then.. watch yer step.

I personally would like to see more of the Mongolian stuff.

 

[mmadsen]

It'd be possible to do a 'bad' India supplement too - you have to avoid making it read like a dry history textbook.

I have trouble imagining anything based on Mythic India being dry. The Ramayana is full of wild "fantasy" material.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

I have trouble imagining anything based on Mythic India being dry. The Ramayana is full of wild "fantasy" material.

I think the problem is that there's so MUCH. Unless you focus on one time period and only one or two faiths, you would need a vast book to avoid becoming a history text.

That, and I'm not certain how much explanation the religions would require. I don't think they readily map to a D&D style "religion."

 

[AngelTears]

I'd like to see a write up of:

East African culture
West African culture
China during the late 1800's
Siberian & Inuit cultures
Arabic culture before the Crusades
The Soviet Satellite countries during the Cold War.
WWI

Now that I have said that, what's actually stopping me from going to the library and finding authorotative texts on the matter. Time I guess...

-Angel Tears

 

[William Ronald]

Here are a few of my choices:

The Celts
The Slavs and peoples of Eastern Europe, including the Magyars.
The Finns and related cultures. (You can get a lot of good ideas from the Kalevala alone.)
North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa are good. (Take a look at Nyambe.)
The Incas.
Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, the Hittites, and other ancient Near Eastern cultures.
India, especially the Vedic period or the Indus River Valley civilization (which traded with Sumer, and is known as Meluhha in Sumerian records.)

Humanity is a wonderfully diverse species, with many cultures. So, I would take a look at anything that is well written and adaptable for different campaigns.

 

[Dragongirl]

Just a note to all you writers and publishers out there. I recently read an article about how many people in India have more and more disposable income and are buying air conditioners. Just think if someone wrote an amazing campaign book set in historical India, could spark off a pokeman craze in India.

Ok, so that was a lame attempt to get someone to write a good book on Indian culture and the princely states.

 

[jgbrowning]

Well I and my wife are working on our first D20 product.. we're also working on a second somewhat concurrently..

the third is going to be about india. but it would probably be a year away..

joe b.

ps.. so far i have managed to keep my wife from posing on our covers ala Avalance Press, but she's pretty persistant..