Would a setting based on the height of Alexander the Great's empire, or actually set in that time period as fantastical history, be interesting?
You would have an exotic mix of Greek, Egyptian, Indian, Persian, and evenJewishcultures and all the trappings and mythologies associated with them. You could be fighting serpopards and mummies one moment, rakshasas and nagas the next, gorgons and cyclopes another day, and peris and manticores yet another, just like some kitchen sink setting.
It seems like an ideal way to bring out several less-highlighted cultures in a fantastical world.
I tend to use that time period a lot, because I love alld the weird shit that happened in that time, coupled with Romans and the rest of the med world at that time it's a very interesting period to steal from. A year and some ago we started a thread about it, but in the Diadochi times with the same premise.
>would a setting that isn't standard medieval fanatsy which we have seen a million times be interesting?
Yes, OP.
Heh, there is a setting in GURPS biotech where Hippocrates researched genetics instead of creating the Hippocratic Oath.
Which results people deciding make clones of Alexander the great rule the surviving Mascedonian empire instead of normal people
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> A year and some ago we started a thread about it, but in the Diadochi times with the same premise.
That might even be better, if we take the period immediatly after Alexanders death. The known world was united by a young, ambitious emperor, but with his death his empire collapsed as well. Now his generals are fighting over the vast terriories of his doamin, trying to scrape out empires of their own, while those people on the fringes are taking back their independence.
If you don't follow history verbatim, you could make it so he has a little more time to prepare civil cervices and logistics in his empire, to prepare for his next campaigns against the rest of India and the western Mediteranian. That would help explain why the party consists of a Greek peltast, a Egyptian spearman and an Indian elephant driver.
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>>47674471
I use similar setup (a little later, though), a lot of late Helenism, greco-indian, semitic and central asian cultures, great mountain ranges and steppes, elements of "global modern" civilization blending with ancient local cultus and philosophies, a lot of gnosticism and strange forms of platonic philosophies. I don't have magic in my world, so no mummies or rakshas sadly.
I do think it's a damn interesting era and damn interesting piece of world, so I think it could work really rather well if you put some effort into your research.
>>47674471
Can't believe you haven't heard of Warlords of Alexander.
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/110404/Warlords-of-Alexander
Free, and full of info. Tends more to historical realism than to fantasy, though.
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>>47674471
>Would a setting based on the height of Alexander the Great's empire, or actually set in that time period as fantastical history, be interesting?
Bruh, Alexander was considered a living god. Fractured empires in the shadow of a living good using holy artifacts and their own claims and/or ambitions to godhood? Fuck yeah that sounds interesting.
Those Jews sound pretty sucky though. No living gods, and only one immortal god? I can't see that idea catching on, you'd be better of scrapping it altogether.Egypt is my successor state-fu, Seleucidfags can get bent
I thought it was obvious Alexander The Greats a Perpetual
>>47674471
>serpopard
Good taste.
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>Puting WH40k to everything.
Why do you fuckers do this. It's so tiresome.
