I wonder when DF will do non-European fantasy

[Kuroshima]

Originally Posted by korbeau

I think DF went to the level to have its own official setting. Maybe testing it with a Recap of Banestorm, calling it Yrth-DF or something like that with a 24-pages PDF to "adjust" the level of Banestorm with DF style and after that, create an entirely setting "à la Forgotten Realms" or something similar based entirely on DF materials - keeping the Dungeon Crawling materials but involving politics, storys, adventures, and so on...

I know it's "one kind of thing that Sci-Fi player don't use" but I think DF is a great and popular line. The next step of evolution of DF could be a setting of it's own.

I personally would love to see as DF setting, even if I might not use it exactly as written (but I might, if it's real good, and knowing SJG's high standards, I don't think they would release something half baked). I would, at least mine it for ideas and locations.

[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

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Well, just to start with, Zulus fought in regimentalized impis and Vikings did not. Vikings never had to run over hot coals and Zulus never tried to found colonies between New England and Russia. So there was a lot of difference in style.

On the other hand, we're not trying to write a book of ethnic clichés in the style of some of the more toe curling efforts from early D&D (or other systems) ... mechanically I suspect the differences can be quite small and, as noted, DF is no respecter of real world cultures.

[Mailanka]

Originally Posted by The Colonel

On the other hand, we're not trying to write a book of ethnic clichés in the style of some of the more toe curling efforts from early D&D (or other systems) ... mechanically I suspect the differences can be quite small and, as noted, DF is no respecter of real world cultures.

If the mechanical differences are small, if the clichés are already well-known, and the characters don't largely interact with a larger setting (that is, there's no plans for a GURPS DF: Courtly Intrique DF:Town Economics or DF: Religious Heresy anytime soon), then what's the point?

[lachimba]

Potential pyramid articles all.


I kind of feel the 'DF setting' is a skerry in infinite worlds with populations transported by banestorm. Its probably notorious for reality quakes too. Infinity quarantined it, but it's great for I swat recruitment.

[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.