I wonder when DF will do non-European fantasy

Phil Masters · 11-24-2015, 02:43 AM

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.

11-24-2015, 02:43 AM	#11
Phil Masters Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: U.K.	Re: I wonder when DF will do non-European fantasy 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. __________________ -- Phil Masters My Home Page. My Self-Publications: On Warehouse 23 and On DriveThruRPG.