It depicts a part of antiquity, so it's not that bad
Antiquity is a pretty broad label, a lot of years in a lot of places fall under it
Next you'll complain about tercios, ships of the line, Whigs and redcoats or doughboys or buxom french milkmaids as a depiction of the modern era
ACKS is very specifically a mix of low middle ages with pulp adventure, which is why it has local lords and feudalism and cataphracts and emperors, while the monsters include white apes, neanderthals, and skeletons
>Frick the Middle Ages
I think you mean frick the Western European Middle Ages. The Byzantines, the Ottomans, the Mali Empire, the Mongols, and Medieval India are dope af and highly underutilized as a setting.
For frick sake, most Medieval fantasy doesn't even incorporate the Crusades or things heavily inspired by the Crusades, a staple in Medieval history.
Though I myself like the Renaissance and antiquity. More classy.
Just saw a trailer for a movie coming out about the Dahomey amazons. Am hype for it. Sucks though that the usual suspects are going to lose their fricking minds about a movie where a black women king and her black lady warriors kill a bunch if white colonizing men, but should be a fun movie.
Early Middle Ages Western Europe is very kino and way under appreciated. The rise of Islam is happening, Germanic barbarian tribes are conquering the remnants of the great ancient Roman Empire and mysterious horsemen from the east are burning down EVERYTHING.
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FATAL is the best RPG for historically correctly and accurately simulating Antiquity.
There's Italian RPG made specifically for playing in ancient Rome
What's the name? Is it translated? If not, well, good thing I speak Italian.
I went to look Lex Arcana up and honestly this looks so fricking good it's ridiculous.
Does anyone got a source for the Lex Arcana 2e pdfs?
Zenobia is nice.
https://www.paulelliottbooks.com/uploads/3/4/3/3/3433372/zenobia2_1.pdf
Does Runequest count or is that too early
D&D 5E.
This is a terrible pic to illustrate Antiquity... so Frick antiquity too I guess.
It depicts a part of antiquity, so it's not that bad
Antiquity is a pretty broad label, a lot of years in a lot of places fall under it
Next you'll complain about tercios, ships of the line, Whigs and redcoats or doughboys or buxom french milkmaids as a depiction of the modern era
ACKS' art has a very antiquated feel.
ACKS is very specifically a mix of low middle ages with pulp adventure, which is why it has local lords and feudalism and cataphracts and emperors, while the monsters include white apes, neanderthals, and skeletons
>Frick the Middle Ages
I think you mean frick the Western European Middle Ages. The Byzantines, the Ottomans, the Mali Empire, the Mongols, and Medieval India are dope af and highly underutilized as a setting.
For frick sake, most Medieval fantasy doesn't even incorporate the Crusades or things heavily inspired by the Crusades, a staple in Medieval history.
Though I myself like the Renaissance and antiquity. More classy.
Just saw a trailer for a movie coming out about the Dahomey amazons. Am hype for it. Sucks though that the usual suspects are going to lose their fricking minds about a movie where a black women king and her black lady warriors kill a bunch if white colonizing men, but should be a fun movie.
These are the hot takes that shit threads draw. Good work
Early Middle Ages Western Europe is very kino and way under appreciated. The rise of Islam is happening, Germanic barbarian tribes are conquering the remnants of the great ancient Roman Empire and mysterious horsemen from the east are burning down EVERYTHING.
I think the fall of rome is compelling, albeit slow. Early middle ages are more a bore because nobody has built castles, kingdoms are broke.
FATAL
Western history is larping as Rome larping as Hellenes
Kill you are self
And that’s a good thing, chud.
Is Theros any good?