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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2522482" data-attributes="member: 14159">Oh, I certainly know that.  One thing I find very amusing is, that the typical fantasy setting is very much locked into a medieval western europe model, ala LotR, King Arthur ect.However, a Roman themed setting would in many ways accomodate the standard fantasy cliches and typical D&D play style much better:Slaves & Gladiators.Encountering strange beasts from far & wide, and quite possibly killing them.World-Spanning Empires united by a single common language.Polytheistic religion with at least some tolerance of foriegn faiths.Mysterious cults that promise deep knowledge, and keep their beliefs secret from outsiders.Characters of many different races/ethnicities meeting together in relative peace.Huge cities where anything can happen.Some "Modern" technology like indoor plumbing, and relatiely advanced medicine (some elements of Roman medicine we're just discovering were as good as things we have today, like their method of "stapling" wounds closed with silver wire promotes faster healing than conventional modern sutures).Colorful characters (some Roman Emperors read like D&D NPC's in their biographies).Huge standing armies with outposts around the known world.Well mapped, maintained and guarded for PC's to travel far & wide.Savage and menacing barbaric peoples on the fringes of society that threaten civlization itself.A Roman themed setting really could be a way to get a semi-historically grounded setting with lots of room for gaming while not even being too implausible culturally or technologically.Although this is getting a little far afield of the topic, maybe somebody should start a separate topic on the plausibility of setting demographics and technologies?</blockquote>

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