Sheogoroth
2017-08-18, 03:04 PM
My DM has us entrenched in Crimson Throne right now, but I'm planning on running Rise of the Runelords when we finish up. I bought the book, and I had an idea I'm really excited about. They seem to paint Thassilon with sort of an Eastern Magocracy vogue with the East Asian Hip-and-Gable Roofs in a lot of the art. But other than the fact that they tell you that the society is Ten-Thousand years old, it doesn't FEEL ten-thousand years old. There's nothing that really gives the ancient vibe
But I'm in the process of re-imagining everything about them to be sort of like interconnected real-world Bronze Age civilizations, then expanding that to the Ghol-gan Cyclopes, the Fangwood Elves, and the Serpentfolk which(other than the Ancient Aboleth) were the only things that could be considered a civilizations that we know about from that period.
Historically, you had this super rapid vaporization of civilization, culture, and the written word as a result of a mysterious doomsday phenomenon that we hardly understand today. Sounds a lot like the Starfall and the collapse every single contiguous civilization except for the Aboleth(and sort of the Elves, but counting them is really a stretch to begin with) I really want to create paint a historical backdrop and make this ancient, mysterious Civilization feel ancient and mysterious.
So I was thinking of ripping off a lot of the feel of Babylonian and Assyrian Architecture, maybe giving Karzoug a Babylonian Ring-beard and putting crazy Akkadian Sphinxes everywhere and rewriting all of the ancient writing with a Bronze-Age flavor to it, particularly with
My question is, do you guys know of any created Bronze-Age setting(or equivalently flavorful) modules in the vast expanse of all tabletopping that I could draw from, or maybe really good books or websites with bronze-age literature? I'm trying to immerse myself in the style so that I can look at ROTR with fresh eyes of how I want to make things feel.
But I'm in the process of re-imagining everything about them to be sort of like interconnected real-world Bronze Age civilizations, then expanding that to the Ghol-gan Cyclopes, the Fangwood Elves, and the Serpentfolk which(other than the Ancient Aboleth) were the only things that could be considered a civilizations that we know about from that period.
Historically, you had this super rapid vaporization of civilization, culture, and the written word as a result of a mysterious doomsday phenomenon that we hardly understand today. Sounds a lot like the Starfall and the collapse every single contiguous civilization except for the Aboleth(and sort of the Elves, but counting them is really a stretch to begin with) I really want to create paint a historical backdrop and make this ancient, mysterious Civilization feel ancient and mysterious.
So I was thinking of ripping off a lot of the feel of Babylonian and Assyrian Architecture, maybe giving Karzoug a Babylonian Ring-beard and putting crazy Akkadian Sphinxes everywhere and rewriting all of the ancient writing with a Bronze-Age flavor to it, particularly with
My question is, do you guys know of any created Bronze-Age setting(or equivalently flavorful) modules in the vast expanse of all tabletopping that I could draw from, or maybe really good books or websites with bronze-age literature? I'm trying to immerse myself in the style so that I can look at ROTR with fresh eyes of how I want to make things feel.