You have ten seconds to choose a historical era to base a campaign around.
Go!
>>46437439
How specific are we talking for eras?
Dark ages I guess (not medieval times)
>>46437439
Renaissance
The answer is always Thirty Years' War
>>46437439
Japanese Occupation of the Korean peninsula.
The Deluge
>>46437439
It has to be historical? Can't I choose prehistory?
>>46437439
High middle ages Mediterranean
>>46437439
1st March 1892, 7:32 AM GMT.
Ancient Crete
>>46437490
Yes, I should have been more specific. Base it around a verifiable event (such as a certain king's reign or a specific natural disaster) or a broader point in time tied to a location like >>46437568
>>46437439
Fall of Constantinople.
The 1970s.
>>46437580
W-what happened then?
Also the Spanish Civil War. Muy bueno setting.
>>46437439
I was going to say Byzantine but then I realised that's not an era and I don't know what era the most interesting stuff happened in.
Byzantine campaign though.
>>46437439
Pre-big bang
>>46437689
So, basically the God Game here?
Actually what happened to that?
Oscars, Leo wins.
>>46437439
1900 - before WW2 Japan
>>46437544
Sounds fun, but it keeps the DM from using the phrase antediluvian to describe something as incredibly old.
>>46437439
Boxer Rebellion
>>46437649
Hey, OP didn't ask for justification, just a historical time period.
Bronze Age Collapse Mediterranean.
>>46437580
March 1 – Theodoros Deligiannis ends his term as Prime Minister of Greece and Konstantinos Konstantopoulos takes office.
>>46437439
Pax Romana.
>>46437439
Bronze Age Collapse.
>>46437439
The Greenland Vikings' decline in the 15th century, when they were cut off from Denmark and the Inuits picked them off one by one.
>>46438131
Great idea!
>>46438156
>>46438201
Tell me more, I'm not familiar with that period.
>>46437439
Feudal Japan during the Imjin War.
>>46438232
They might be talking about the Sea People invasion. No one knows much about it.
Russian Civil War
>>46438230
basically I just watched the Once Upon a Time in China films last week and now I wanna get my Huo Yuanjia on
WW2. Not set in real life, but rather the era's wars, politics, and technology in its own world and setting.
>>46438337
Sort of like what Ace Combat does? I've always loved that concept.
>>46438232
So you know the Bronze Age right?
Big kingdoms, silly looking armor, ancient legend, and hugely wealthy palaces and such?
It all collapsed incredibly quickly and violently over about fifty years, with most cities being completely abandoned. Took around two centuries for any major authority to start up again.
Lots of things were happening at the same time. The advent of Ironworking made it easier for anyone to get their hands on enough high quality weapons to challenge central authority, there were widespread droughts and volcanic eruptions, a series of migratory waves by the "Sea Peoples" devastated the coastal regions, there was a rapid decrease in temperature similar to the Little Ice Age, and mass production of war material lead to larger and bloodier battles.
>>46437439
American Civil War
>>46437439
Lets go interesting and say Night of the Long Knives; a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934.
Players are all working class germans with non-nazi affiliations. The campaign is about them trying to leave germany before their purged.
And ill find some way to work in bionic technology. Perhapse one of the purged is a scientist working on bionics. The group have to decide which country to set up in. Probably switzerland, maybe america. Its up to them.
THEN.
Fastforward to modern day. The sons/daughters of these migrants discover the bionic tech in their fathers basment. Along with some old Mp38s / Thompsons. Players eventually become David Sariff from Deus Ex, except in modern times, and guess what? Facism is on the rise again.
Sound good?
>>46438232
You know those oral tales Homer used to yabber on about? Something something the fall of Troy? That period.
Except not really. Historically between ~1200 BC and 1000 BC there's a large change in Mediterranian/Western Asia. A fair number of cultures, particularly the New Kingdom in Egypt, the Hittites and Mycenaeans, collapsed, and a huge number of cities throughout the Levant are razed and (presumably) destroyed.
What follows is a very important "dark ages" era, particularly in Greece, where you have a lot of cities quite culturally and economically isolated from one another, which eventually leads to the "Classical" period 400 years later.
The Roaring Twenties.
>>46438402
Neat-o, thanks anon
>>46438666
Hey, you aren't me! Satan is trying to steal my identity!
>>46437439
German Bronze Age
PCs are Lollards who trying to spread the word of God and the English Bible without getting killed by the Church
>>46437439
The hyborian age
The Edwardian age (1901-1914) where every major society in the world was industrializing as hard as it could and seizing whatever it could hold from weak and dying empires. Horrible advances like repeating firearms and chemical gas start to enable smaller factions to fight back against their oppressors, leading to upheavals of minority cultures even in stable territories.
>>46437532
yes! Why does no one ever do this period/war its so awesome
>>46437439
But Anon, frogs are on the other side of the sea.
reconquista
>>46438823
That region of France was called Normandy. France was not quite united culturally, people from this area were Normans, not French.
>>46438823
>>46437439
cold war
sengoku
>>46437439
Victorian era/Wild West. Little or no steampunk but probably magic.
Given more time to think I might have arrived at the bronze age instead, having significantly lower tech than standard fantasy could be interesting.
New Zealand during the Maori-British war
>>46437649
Gonna guess that the Falklands War began.
Migration Period
Eighty Years War
Carthage vs Romans. But Carthage is winning cause magic is in the setting.
Post-Charlemagne Europe.
Preferably some campaign taking place in East-Francia close to the borders of the pagan Slavs and Magyars. Maybe add some magic or Slavic mythology. The players could be churchmen, mercenaries or minor nobles serving on this dangerous frontier.
>>46438362
Strangereal was it?
The russo-Finnish wars
>>46439621
>>46439461
Aren't you the same guy?
>>46438489
Trying too hard.
>>46439529
>Migration Period
Yes
In general, the antiquity is underrepresented in comparison to the high middle ages. Other eras that could be cool would be the
>colonization of Africa up until 1914
>pre-Roman Europe
>early antiquity (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley civilizations)
>Finno-Korean Hyper War
>>46438489
But it was mostly high-ranking officials in the SA that were purged. A regular working class German without SA affiliation would very likely not be purged
>>46437439
post Alexander Hellenistic period, changing alliances, cool characters, crazy warmachines and intrigue out the butthole, plus it's not weeaboo shit
One of my settings was based on Polynesian islander wars with some light pacific mythology and magic tossed in.
There's a surprising amount of stuff you can pull out of that
Stone age
The Great Game in the late 19th century.
You got dashing adventurers, ancient kingdoms, political intrigue, survival in harsh enviroments and the occasional healthy dose of insubordination.
Everything that a campaign needs, really.
>>46437439
Ancient Mesopotamia.
>>46437439
The Italian peninsula during the Italian wars.
>>46439663
Yer i found that out... so ill just go for the regular old purge.
>>46439660
>Trying too hard.
I like to take pride in anything i do. Whats wrong with that?
>>46437439
THE CRUSADES
Hussite Wars.
>>46439590
I believe so. Papers, Please did something similar as well.
>>46437439
Germany circa the Treaty of Westphalia.
>>46440426
Papers, Please is not WW2, it's more of a Belkan anywhere between 1950's and present day.
>>46437674
The Alexiad for one...
>>46437439
Apollo 13 moon landing. The astronauts break down in space and then have to fend off red soviet cosmonaut space pirates trying to steal their space dubloons.
>>46440247
>all that filthy lucre
Muh dick!
>>46437439
I'm running a campaign right now based around the Rwandan Civil War, the Genocide, and the first and Second Congo Wars.
Idi Amin is an exiled Ogre Mage Sorcerer, and I'm so excited for the party to meet Qaddafi.
>>46440475
No, I meant that it was some bizarre facsimile of the real world.
>>46437532
Definitely would be a rather grim setting, but could definitely be pretty fun.
>>46437705
It went from 'fun but retarded freeform' to 'everyone circle jerking about their own power level and getting into arguments about who can and can't do what.'
>>46440833
>Based Ostfriesland just stealing everything along with the Dutch while Bremen and Westphalia burn
Running a Baltic/North Sea pirate campaign could be fucking fun.
>>46437439
Mid 18th Century
>>46441033
Where and why?
>>46441016
Bremen and Westphalia came out of the thirty years war smelling like roses compared to pretty much the rest of the HRE.
>>46441101
Europe/Colonies and because of the 7 Years war and the war of the austrian succession.
>>46441113
Maybe, but Ostfriesland made out like bandits during that time. Might have ended up in the Netherlands actually, if it wasn't due to the Count deciding that he preferred being a Count.
1890s-1910s USA.
We ran a campaign based on this, with the characters starting off as newsboys leading the strike of 1899, leading to towards the end of WWI, where they all died
>>46437439
Pre-Civil War New Orleans
>>46437439
The Carboniferous. I wanna ride my arthropleura steed into battle against that other tribe of amphibians!
>>46437439
The War of the Roses.
PURGE THE LAND OF THE RED ROSE!
>>46437439
War of rhodesia, using modified dark heresy rules
British Isles, The Anarchy
>>46437439
Age of Sail.
This isn't even really a choice.
Captcha: pictures of tea
>>46437439
Post-2000, modern day era.
The American Revolution
>>46437439
England 800s during Alfred the Great's era
>>46437649
>miniature ww2: fascists vs communists
>advanced nazi tech vs russian junk and home made tiznaos (pic related)
>testing grounds for ww2 weaponry and tactics, birthplace of molotov cocktail
>them international brigades
>ends a few months away from ww2, perfect tie-in for a ww2 campaign
>them exiles and heroes scattered all over europe during ww2
>>46443073
I love the way homemade armored vehicles look especially the ones around the WWII era.
>>46437439
1300BC, war between Egypt and the Hittitesthis paper is killing me
The Crusader Kingdoms of the 12th century.
>>46437439
Hussite wars of the early-mid 15th Century.
Utterly fascinating time, got actual peasantry fightan knights, Women and Children included. And winning over an over. Starting out as a local problem and growing into raiding outside of Bohemia.
>>46443680
>Utterly fascinating time, got actual peasantry fightan knights, Women and Children included. And winning over an over
The Hussites only started winning when they got knights and lords siding with them. It wasn't some kind of pure peasant uprising.
>>46437439
Right in the middle of the crusades and you're playing as a group of mercenaries caught in the middle of it all, fighting for whoever pays you.
>>46443157
kek I remember that fucking tractor. they paraded it around the square to show off australian ingenuity, then quietly disassembled and forgot about it because the thing would be a deathtrap.
>>46444308
But anon
>>46444420This is not spam.
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>>46437439
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
>>46444420
Against anything but machinegun fire, that corrugation is a bad idea
>>46443157
Right?
>>46440402
Funny that I am running a VTM game set in the Husstie Wars and am looking for players. We play in person in North West Houston.
>>46437439
south east asian people island hopping, including hawaii
>>46444844
>rollcage
>angled lower chassis
mine resistant?
>>46445195
That thing probably needs a rollcage just because of how fucking topheavy it looks.
>>46444844
The sentinel is an actually reasonable looking tank made by Australia in WWII it actually did some interesting things in its development.
Wessex, late 9th through early 11th centuries.
>tfw vikings fucking my shit up
>tfw kingdom on edge of collapse but also rising as a power (such suspense)
>tfw noble scholar-king who saved the entire system recently died
>tfw apotheosis of local culture
>tfw it's unclear whether we're about to become a great power or [collapse internally]
Surely, God will protect the Anglo-Saxon people.
>>46445195
Yes, it was used in the Rhodesian Bush War, which was basically a giant guerilla warfare campaign. The entire design was supposed to be mine resistant (hence wheels out front, angled bottom, etc)
Rhodesians basically won every single battle, sometimes with 1:1000 K:D ratios, but still lost because there were just too many black commies to deal with (also, every non-communist power backstabbed them at the same time)
the result was a genocide of the white Rhodesian population, kek. Rhodesians withdrew because they couldn't withstand the bajillion civilian casualties and daily mass rape-murders
>>46445580
Or 1000:1 K:D ratios, rather. Whoops.
>>46439555
>REMOVE PHOENICIAN
>>46445472
>>46445472
On another note, Alfred's story is pretty fucking awesome and could work as a sort of campaign, with a few details changed around
>Become king, and in the year of your coronation barbarians invade
>Have to pay them off
>They show up a few more times over the next 5 years, until they finally defeat your forces militarily and kick you out of the kingdom
>You go hide in the marshes for a winter, then travel among the peasants, starting a guerrilla campaign while gathering a military force and sending for all of your nobles to come meet you
>Finally kick the barbarians out of your lands
>Rebuild kingdom with a fort system and militia, become major regional power
>All the while, write a bunch a bunch of books and promote learning in your country as the basis of power, while simultaneously being devout as fuck and basically making everyone love you
>????
>PROFIT
>>46437439
Bismarcks invasion from within
1066 worst year of my life
Remove William
1900 turn of the century.
World fairs and optimism.
1960s american college campus. You say you want a revolution??
>>46437648
Can I make Velvet Underground style Protopunks?
Tokyo in the 80's-90's
We vaporwave now
>>46447793
The Billy Chaka books?
>>46437439
FRONTIER APPALACHIA
going all orson scott card up in this biznatch
>>46445374
>reasonable looking
>has a massive steel dong slapped to the front
>did some interesting things in its development
I bet.
>>46437439
17th century Europe.
>>46437439
WWI + CoC.
>"The wire is alive! It's alive, I tell you!"
>>46437439
-The Viking Age
-The last decades of the Roman Empire proper(not the western empire, not the eastern, not byzantine, not any of those fanboys)
-Hundred Year's War
-Thirty Year's War
-Colonial Era(Either in Africa or the Americas)
>>46437439
antediluvian
>river captcha has relevance
>>46437539
get a load of this edgelord.
the correct answer is 15th century poland.
>>46437439
DEUS VULT!!
>>46437439
cowboy days/industrial revolution
1372.
>>46438496
Not that anything you said was wrong but, I would advise you to avoid referring to the Middle Ages as the Dark Ages. It is some fucking serious bad history.
>>46439497
No, the war was declared a month later.
>>46448242
It's a machine gun turret I think
...That doesn't make it any better
>>46451122
He's not talking about the Middle Ages though
>>46451273
>nothing he said was wrong
>>46437439
Thirty Year's War. Early gunpowder, heyday of mercenary companies, every power in Europe piling in over the course of the war with what would eventually become Germany as the battlefield. All kinds of absolute lunacy going on.
1960's but with psionics and mutants
Sengoku era Japan was pretty crazy. Lots of different factions all bent on conquering the capital and declaring a new age. An exotic, highly mountainous island setting, interesting personal rivalries between the warlords (Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen were bitter enemies, but also pretty gay for each other), lots of suspense (the underdog Odas nearly won it all) and lots of intrigue (backstabbing galore).
The 3 kingdoms period of China and the dying days of the Han dynasty that immediately preceded it is also good for this sort of thing. It was sheer anarchy. Dozens of competing warlords fought it out to carve out a new dynasty for over half a century. It's got all the backstabbing, politicking, war waging, and chaos you'd need for an interesting campaign environment.
Mongol Invasion of Russia and Europe.
Probably as a party of Mongolians raiding Slavs and fighting Teutonics knights in Poland.
Or as some minor Russian princes trying to preserve your small domain against rival princes while politicking with the Khan for support.
yesterday
>>46437439
>Ctrl-F Punic
>0 results
Shitters, the lot of you.
>>46437439
The Napoleonic Era.
post world war 1 Germany 1920-ish
Late Scottish Wars of Independence and the aftermath. (1305-1350)
Makes "Game of thrones" seem like a bunch of kid squabbling. the Black Douglas in particular were brutal.
Or War of the Roses, 1462ish.
>>46437439
3rd-6th centuries in Asia.
canadian furtrade
players are from a specific tribe, complete with knowledge of their tribes political stances
when players first encounter something that their people would not have, it is described in a very foreign way, white men described as humanoids with pale thin faces and pale bony hands carrying long wooden clubs as if they were short spears.
>>46437439
Early Roman Republic
>>46454430
>humanoids
i'm sure they fucking knew they were talking to humans and not some kind of fucking aliens anon
>>46455363
vikings are demons just remember that
>>46439660
>Finno-Korean Hyper War
WEWUZ
KANG
SHEID
this meme needs to die tbqfwy
>>46452819
Ma niggler
>>46455456
Where did this meme even come from?
/int/?
Russo-Japanese war
>>46437439
Napoleonic France
>>46437439
1492
>>46437439
Political Intrigue and back-stabbery in the early Song dynasty
Han Dynasty China.
Now, why are you asking OP?
Greek-Buddhist India
>>46455792
Only if you play as bote girls and it's your job to defeat the filthy nips.
Interbellum
>>46437439
Marseille from the mid 1900's. Marseille was a major hub for drug and heroine trade.
>>46438136
Wow, you're such a clever guy. You showed op.
>>46451122
He compared a short Era in another civilization to "dark ages" for ease of reference. Nothing wrong with that, even if you did just watch a video on how historians don't like that phrase because of how euro-centric it is.
>>46456892
No, historians don't like the phrase because it exaggerates the level of collapse in Europe.
>>46456186
Mostly because I wanted an excuse to post that image, but now I'm curious as to what you'd have your players do.
Bump and tell me what your players would do.
Sonderbund War
>>46437439
The Attitude Era.
>>46437439
My first thought was the Parting of The Red Sea
>>46459924
Shedding the blood of pagans.
Like good old Charly would.
>>46440606
>not using superior moon doubloons
>>46460220
The only correct answer
>>46439497
>>46451188
Try 90 years later, but close.
>>46440402
Warhammer brah
>>46444926
What day/time?
>>46437439
Polish occupation of Moscow
>>46440402
Sapkowski wrote a fantasy novel about Hussites
>>46448386
This basically was one of the chapters in Eternal Darkness. It's implied that WW1 and 2 were started to have an easy source of corpses to feed to a not!Shoggoth in the basement of some Cathederal.
>>46437532
Hah! I'm already running again set 10 years after the peace of Westphalia.
Premise is the Emperor's secret task force to re-unify the Empire.
>>46437674
You probably want 535-540 during the reign of Justinian the first.
Spanish Inquisition of the Aztecs
>>46437439
World War I in Faerun.
IE: FANTASY TRENCH WARFARE!
>>46437439
Mongol invasion
>>46463670
*a game
>>46438987
France as a nation didn't exist at the time, period.
The normans were as much french as the gascons, picards, occitans, or any ethnicity that populated what is known today as France.
And frog legs were a regular dish in Normandy during that period.
Besides
>butthurt britfag spotted.
>>46437439
1990s SUBURBAN AMERICA
Manifest Destiny, the culturalization of the Americas.
I wanna play a late 90's, early 2000's era fantastical setting where orcs did 9/11 but secretly the goblins masterminded the whole thing.
Fantastical 20th century (dieselpunk to Cold War era) US.
>>46455397
anything is a demon if you're a scared little bitch priest
>>46464631
Or better yet:
Space race. Human/Elf cold war. Anything in between.
>>46455397
That's different though since, at least in the case of the British Isles, the first place the vikings attacked was a monastery. So they were basically crazy island men on weird looking boats who raided a monastery, killed a bunch of people, and repeated that process over and over.
>Fucking demons messing with my churches and shit man
>>46444810
Why, though?
Legitimately curious.
>>46437439
The American South in the late 20s, just between prohibition and the dust bowl.
>>46464690
They weren't even particularly different, they were pagan Danes to the Isles' Christian Danes.
>>46437439
Easy,30 years war.
>>46437560
poorlittlegreymammal
>>46445223
Hey, don't you dare mock George!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrvXTIT2yJ0
>>46464908
Separated by 400~ years, though, with vastly different cultures and (slightly) different languages. That's fairly different. Even when the Danes had settled, they were stuck in the Danelaw for quite a while and cultures only partially mixed.
Besides,
>pagans
>not literally demons here to eat your soul
BE GONE HEATHEN
>>46442816
>you will never dump smug "muh proud warrior culture" vikings into a mass grave with your bros.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgeway_Hill_Viking_burial_pit
>>46465999
Holy fuck this. I wanna do it just to piss off vikingaboos
>>46445580
Funnily enough, Mugabe is asking for white people to return to Zimbabwe so they can run the farms and shit because the so-called White Tribe doesn't have these centuries old blood feuds that the black africans have.
It's actually kinda funny, in a way.
>>46437439
Victorian.
>>46437439
2017.
Trump has just been elected, and has the full support of a wholly republican congress and senate.
The birth of cyberpunk happens now.
>Not the Precambrian Era
Get a load of these plebs
>>46437439
The Crusades.
DEUS VULT
>>46437439
1992 like Brixton or something during the Summer of Love II rave era
>>46445598
As impressive is that is, one guy managing to die a thousand times while only making a single kill is also impressive in its own way. Simultaneously miraculous, pathetic, and burning with white hot determination to gut that one fucker on the hill with a machine gun.
>>46466170
Anything is possible when you're a Highlander.
Also, the Troubles might be a good campaign setting if you could keep the fedoras in your group from tipping too hard.
The fall of the great Bronze Age powers after the Sea People invasions. Trade networks, empires, economies, everything collapsed. Bronze was replaced by iron, the first alphabet was invented, sailors learned to navigate after the stars, ruins of great cities everywhere. So much room for adventure.
>>46437439
WW1
the 80 year war
