The Campaign Builder's Guild

Personally, i like settings.  I like the idea of taking typical D&D elements and using them in a new and interesting way.  FR is my personal favorite, but i like Ebberon ect.  Now i'm also a big person in terms of Anthropology, so i like it when certain cultures get more attention within D&D  I like oriental adventures, Arabian adventures is one of my favorite (but the middle east is cool) and the native american was.......ok it sucked but it was good in theory.

But i haven't seen any game that focuses on rome.  Oh there is normally one population in the world who are roman based in theme, IE the giant empire.  But i have never seen any setting that focues entirely upon Rome, and thats a shame considering there awsome history.  I might have watched a few too many episodes of I Cladius and Rome but I've always been fascinated by there culture and there way of life (and how totally stubborn they were)  So i was wondering if anybody made a setting there on rome, or knows of one

For that matter, what about Mongolians? They are so awsome but never get there own setting
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Are you speaking purely of published D&D settings.

I'm pretty sure that was a Rome GURPs supplement. There's a GURPs supplement for everything.

And of course, there have been a number of settings here inspired by or based on the Classical period, my own included.

The current one under the works (not posted) is set at roughly 50 BCE.

I'm fairly sure someone (maybe Mongoose?) did a d20 Rome book at some point, dunno how good it was though, or how fantasy-ish they made it. You might want to check it out.

Vampire also has a Rome book, although that probably isn't what you're looking for :p

I've seen several setting books that are about Rome. GURPS Imperial Rome is the most promising among them. I have seen little based on Rome, however.

Green Ronin published a sourcebook called Eternal Rome for playing in Ancient Rome using D&D mechanics.

For a historical twist look up Roma Imeriosus.  It speculates about what would have happened if Constantine had taken up magic instead of Cristianity.

As for Mongolians the only thing I can remember coming across was the FR supplement The Horde, available for free download from here.

Ah, I think that Eternal Rome was what I was thinking of. Green Ronin, not Mongoose. My mistake.

1) I always forget Gurps, most likely because my local stores don't sell them.  Yeah, they have a game for everything
2) Ah green Ronin, i love you.  Thanks
3) Actually I liked Eternal Rome, i got it recently, and it gets a lot of coolness points in my books.  I actually like it better than Vampire the game, and i think they should have made that tehre main product line.

Thanks for the free download, thats kinda mongolian, but seems a bit more Hun to me

thank you

Quote from: EvilElitestThanks for the free download, thats kinda mongolian, but seems a bit more Hun to me

1) I didn't actually read much of it.
2) How do you tell the difference?

1) I've only started, i'm just getting a general feeling from what i've read in the beginning
2) The mongolians were a far asian people who dominated China and Russia into 4 super mega empires.  The huns were a central Europeon ethinic group that had a small empire in Eastern Europe.  They were always more tribal and clanish (not to say the Mongolians weren't, the Huns were just more so) until the rise of Attila.  Think the riders from Song of Ice and Fire in a kinda sorta not really sort of way.  The Huns in popular fiction tend to be just "horse riding barbarians from the east" who are brutal but badass, and this seems to be tapping into that (It was a common theme in Europeon literature, especially in Austria.).  But i'm just mostly sterotyping, i haven't read it all yet

The biggest difference is that the Huns are more like the Easter Europeon/russias and the Mongolians are far asian

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Interestingly though the Hun people are (I believe) thought to be descendents of a Central Asian slew of ethnic groups including Mongols that merged with Eastern European groups, especially Turkic peoples.  So while they're not Mongols per se they are related.

I based some of my cultures' politics on Roman elements. Ironically, in Wonders, there's hardly any influence from Rome on the Hariij (the Big Empire), apart from the fact that I called their armies 'legions', but quite a substantial amount of Greek/Roman influence (as well as Hebrew influence) on the smaller Tandhusi isles.

Originally, I wanted to completely avoid any references to "real" cultures, but I figured the end result would be alien and hard to relate to.

In my setting, the current campaign will take place in a culture that has some parallels to Ango-Saxon England (because I have not seen them done before).  To the south is a "Republic", which should be a GLARINGLY obvious reference to Rome, but I want to avoid making it Rome completely.  They actually use the katar as their primary infantry weapon, and I've considered making their homeland the plains, and their "elite" mounted archers.

M.

I know you're probably referring to imperial Rome, but...

http://www.vaticanengarde.com/

...saw it in someone's sig on another forum just now.

There's a campaign setting at my local B&N that's about Imperial Rome. Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact title.