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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SWBaxter" data-source="post: 2049446" data-attributes="member: 27926">Kinda depends on your approach. OGL Ancients goes the route of having everybody be human, but giving racial-style bonuses based on city-state or nationality. So Spartans are better fighters, Athenians have higher intellectual skills, etc. Another approach could be to recast D&D races in roles appropriate to a Greek-style setting. The Greeks themselves would be humans, the Persian empire could be the bad guys represented by hobgoblins, Egypt could be the ancient empire run by dwarves or elves, Crete and/or Minos could be founded the other elder race and inspire the Greeks, and so on with analogues to the Phoenicians, Nubians, barbaric Europeans, or whatever else seems desireable. On the divine front, in addition to people with divine ancestry Greek myth also features a lot of characters who get help from the gods, either on a continuing basis (Jason, for example) or receiving some one-time gift important to their destiny (like Achilles). Those can be modelled via racial or bloodline-type mechanics.</blockquote>