I wonder when DF will do non-European fantasy

[safisher]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

I could easily imagine an entirely kickass dungeon fantasy campaign using the same tropes as DF, set in ancient Greece with the serial numbers files off only a tiny bit.

Or Egypt. Wasn't Kromm's inspirational campaign a sword-and-sandals sort of thing?

[b-dog]

Originally Posted by safisher

Or Egypt. Wasn't Kromm's inspirational campaign a sword-and-sandals sort of thing?

I would love a Middle Eastern setting like GURPS Arabian Nights that would also include older cultures and faiths like those in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia. Islam would be the law of the land but there would be all sorts of monsters and cults from the ancient cultures.

[b-dog]

Here is a link to Ars Magica Lands of the Nile which would be awesome for a DF setting IMO.
http://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG0313.php

[Gold & Appel Inc]

Originally Posted by b-dog

I would love a Middle Eastern setting like GURPS Arabian Nights that would also include older cultures and faiths like those in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia. Islam would be the law of the land but there would be all sorts of monsters and cults from the ancient cultures.

This would be so easy to do in this thread that it is IMHO not worth publishing. I'll even work on it myself, when I'm not busy, if nobody beats me to it. Your capacity for ideas coupled with your lack of ambition has made me sad for years.

[b-dog]

Originally Posted by Gold & Appel Inc

This would be so easy to do in this thread that it is IMHO not worth publishing. I'll even work on it myself, when I'm not busy, if nobody beats me to it. Your capacity for ideas coupled with your lack of ambition has made me sad for years.

I imagine an adventure where an ancient Egyptian king built a pyramid with a false crypt and some small amount of treasure. But beneath the false crypt there would be a dungeon stocked with all of the monsters of the Pre-Islamic age like sphinxes, mummies, etc. The way to the pyramid would have bandits and ghuls and bouda (hyena men) along with all types of jinnn. The catfolk would be an ancient race that served Bast and they could be used as adventurers instead of elves. Also there could be half-jinn instead of half-elemental and half-demons for PC races.

[Anthony]

Within the genre of Dungeon Fantasy, different cultures are mostly bestiaries and flavor text. The earliest 'genre' dungeon I can think of off-hand is The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, and other than style of the opposition, it's a basic dungeon crawl.

[roguebfl]

Originally Posted by b-dog

I would love a Middle Eastern setting like GURPS Arabian Nights that would also include older cultures and faiths like those in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia. Islam would be the law of the land but there would be all sorts of monsters and cults from the ancient cultures.

Um 1001 Arabian Nights is set in the Sasanian Empire before the rise of Islam. Sassanid Zoroastrianism was the religion of the elites. The irony the setting more Persian than Arabian.

[Phil Masters]

Actually, it's "set" all over the place - China, North Africa, the Indian Ocean... The vaguely assumed default location for about half the stories is early medieval Iraq. All depicted with about as much realism as a Saturday morning kids' cartoon, mind you. (And Zoroastrians tend to be depicted as moustache-twirling bad guys.) It's a collection of popular stories that developed in medieval Syria and evolved in late medieval Cairo. The Persian (and Indian, and Yemeni...) roots are buried pretty deep.

Oh, and it features a couple of dungeon expeditions.

[roguebfl]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Actually, it's "set" all over the place - China, North Africa, the Indian Ocean... The vaguely assumed default location for about half the stories is early medieval Iraq. All depicted with about as much realism as a Saturday morning kids' cartoon, mind you. It's a collection of popular stories that developed in medieval Syria and evolved in late medieval Cairo. The Persian (and Indian, and Yemeni...) roots are buried pretty deep.

Oh, and it features a couple of dungeon expeditions.

However all the versions centre around Shahryar, whom the narrator calls a "Sasanian king" and his new bride Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter who beings telling the king a story and not finishing that night the intince the king not to execute her the next day as was his custom, and keeping it up for 1001 nights.

Originally Posted by Phil Master

The vaguely assumed default location for about half the stories is early medieval Iraq.

Aka Persia. long before it even though of itself as Iraq.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

Aka Persia. long before it even though of itself as Iraq.

Persia is Iran, not Iraq. Iraq is more Babylonia.