I wonder when DF will do non-European fantasy

[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.