My first thread (Egyptian influences for my campaign)

[Le Narcissique]

Hi! I'm new to this place, So, placed to meet you all.

Well, now to the On-Topic Stuff:

I'm beginning to create a new campaign setting and I'm planning on making a society based on Egyptian culture. I don't want it to be the same as Egyptian, not even accurate for that matter, I just want it to feel Egyptian.

I've been wondering, Is there anyone who's got some Egyptian treats from which I can inspire? Maybe some Prestige Classes, Magic items... whatever should be welcome n_n.
As a side note, I'm also maing socieies based on Middle east, Asian cultures, native american cultures, Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, all that too, Some nordic stuff as well, and the always-to-be-there Medieval European stuff. So any income on this societies (specially for in-game materia( Should be quite helpful n_n.

Thank in advance to all of you!

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Sorry I don't have specifics, but here are a few pages I occasionally frequent when looking for similar flavors.

Egypetian Mythology

The Americas

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Maybe check out Jaerc's prestige class: url for a Egyptian-flavored class.

I like Sandstorm fairly well, when I was doing D&D.  There's plenty of monsters, magic, and classes that are go for that kind of setting.

Make chariots a big thing to get that sand and sandals-type feel.  Oh, and, uh pyramids, mummies, and sphinxes.  And curses.

I hope this helps.

[Wensleydale]

I can make some classes for you if you want... hmm...

But apart from what they've said above, I don't think I can help you. ;)

[Lmns Crn]

Hey, welcome!

I'm beginning to create a new campaign setting and I'm planning on making a society based on Egyptian culture. I don't want it to be the same as Egyptian, not even accurate for that matter, I just want it to feel Egyptian.

Creating a society that isn't a copy of a real world culture, but feels similar? I generally like to do this by extracting relevant elements and playing with them out of context. I know very little about ancient Egypt, but that's never stopped me before! Let's close our eyes and think about that culture. We'll brainstorm and make a list:

Ancient Egypt
-desert
-impressive, improbable architecture
-reverence for the dead
-annual river flooding makes agriculture possible
-were there snakes? I guess there were snakes
-polytheism, animal-heads
-royalty supposedly directly descended from gods
-complex pictoral language, looks neat when carved in stone

We could keep listing stuff, I guess. But once I have a list, I do my best to forget I was thinking about Egypt to begin with, and just start looking at the stuff I listed, thinking of ways to recombine and exploit those elements. The idea being that the end result will be scrambled and expanded enough so that people won't read it and say "Hey, that's just a fantasy version of ancient Egypt," but it will have enough similarities to be reminiscent of ancient Egypt, while having a creative life of its own.

[Johnny Wraith]

I was born in Peru and lived there most part of life, so anything you want to know about the Incas (I suppose historical events you can find online, but I guess I can help you a bit more with ways of life or y'know, knowledge you just won't find in books) just PM me and I'll be glad to help ;)

[SDragon]

luminous crayon's advice is a great starting place for your egyptian setting; i believe there's a setting or two with egyptian flavor somewhere around here, too.

for the mesoamerican settings (aztec, mayan, incan), hellraiser, snakefing and i are all good people to turn to. my major setting, Xiluh, is intended to be along the lines of a general mesoamerican setting, so feel free to take some inspiration from that, too.

best of luck, and happy worldbuilding!

[Le Narcissique]

Thank to all of you n_n, those are quite useful advises indeed.

Phoenix Knight, I was actually looking for that one, I sow it not long ago, but lost the url n_n, nice Prrestige Class you have there.

Ismayl, Thanks a lot, I'll take a look at those.

Golem, Thanks, that won't be necesary, I could use some advise at creating classes, thought o.O.

Luminous Crayon, Thanks, That list really gave me some inspiration n_n.

Hellraiser, Thank, that whould be quite useful indeed n_n.

sdragon1984- the S is for penguin, Thanks, I'll take a look at your setting n_n. [dice]d20+3[/dice]

[SDragon]

whoa! he rolled a natural 20!

must really suck that it was in a thread where dicerolling is pointless......

[Le Narcissique]

whoa! he rolled a natural 20!

must really suck that it was in a thread where dicerolling is pointless......

Hahaha! yeah, I wanted to check that out to see how it worked... then I got a 20 and got like "OMG O_O! and this has no meaning! fuck!"