Is it possible to make a desert setting without arabian nights/a non!arabia faction?
Yes.
>>45617849
No.
Sure, there's plenty of other desert cultures to steal wholesale from.
Maybe.
I don't know.
>>45617849
Yes, you can be inuits, Icelanders or Greenlanders in a artic desert.
It depends on your outlook on life.
Spain
I have a desert culture in my setting more based on medieval subsaharan African kingdoms.
Most of these posts are mine. My life is sad and lonely, just like your empty desert.
>>45617849
Can you repeat the question?
>>45617958
A country with like a half a dozen small deserts in which they film Spagetti Westerns?
>>45618032
Yes
>>45617849
Why would you want to avoid glorious nomadic pre-muslim Arabian setting?
I'm trying to get my players to play one but they think that desert = boring...
Everybody knows the only desert on the planet is in the Middle East.
>>45617849
You can look up the Mojave desert, messicans + mormons + injuns.
You can also look up the Gobi, which is mostly mongols.
If you're feeling especially weird, considering researching Australia
![257597,xcitefun-arctic-desert-6[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nsWZy0o.jpg "257597,xcitefun-arctic-desert-6[1].jpg")
>>45617849
Go full western. Or do ice desert
>>45618445
You could actually use every culture. Dorne from Game of Thrones is spain and it fits without problems.
>>45617849
I'll say it's even mandatory. Just don't make it a dunes desert, but a rocky one, and make it a western style desert with indians and shit like that.
Then put your non!arabs in some nice place with a lot of water and plants, not the desert. Like king Faisal said in Lawrence of arabia, arabs don't like the desert, that's for autistic europeans.
>>45617970
But those were sabanah people, not desert people, my senpai.
Look up Gobi Desert; Mojave Desert, Painted Desert, Sonoran Desert
>>45618503
Why not both?
>Ctrl+F "dune"
Are you guys even trying
>>45619185
>Are you guys even trying
Did you even read the OP
This is the slacker thread.
>>45619185
>dune
Anon, what the fuck yo? I mean you didnt even read the book, did you??? Fucking hell author is even using a bunch of Persian and Arab words in it..
Something based on the Gobi desert perhaps?
>>45617849
>>45619185
>fedayeen intensifies
>>45617849
yes, You make it egyptian as hell.
Or transaplant any other culture that will go away any arabic association.
>>45619729
With ancient isrealite dwarves
>>45618445
Why does fantasy mojave sound so fun?how do I fantasy mormon?
>>45617849
Sure you can but first, need to know how they survive.
For example: Water is the most important in survival. Make them worship water. Blood can make the substitute.
Hiow they worship it?
How they can find water?
Maybe using some prayer or something.
Sun will be the evil god or something .
Surf the sand using winds
>>45621250
A cult rising in power, both creating its own separated nation state of followers while semi-successfully influencing the government of the larger empire.
>>45621250Make them actual Mormons that crossed over from our universe.
>>45617849
Yes. Deserts of Khark.
>>45621184
"Dwarven masonery, son, these pyramids gotta last twelve millenia for sure!"
>>45617849
Yes use Slavs or anybody from Eastern Europe.
>>45621697
Anon that's just OP self-bumping is shitty thread.
sage for nobump
>>45621250
Regular Mormons already are fantasy Mormons.
>>45621250
Dogs in the Vineyard
>>45621751
Egyptian!Elves with enslaved Hebrew!Dwarves....I want this setting.
>>45617849
Yes. Australia, Mojave, Gobi. Or just make it up yourself.
>>45617849
What is even the point of a desert if I can't wear a turban. Might as well just make it some badlands so I can wear my cowboy hat and duster coat.
>>45617849
Yes but why would you limit yourself so much?
They can show you a whole new world to explore and more than a thousand of stories to tell.
Base it on Touareg culture. They're double interesting with their semimatriarchal society.
>>45617849
>Navajo
>kalahri bushmen
>aussie bushmen
>aussies in general have a lot of deserts, don't they
>arctic deserts
>West African regions/Salt Trade deserts
>tfw the only RPG to draw upon the Bronze Age Middle East for inspiration is Dark Sun and it's postapocalyptic fantasy
kill me
>>45617849
Depends. Does the Persian Empire count as "Arabian?"
>>45619335
>The JPEG
Muh setting's desert area is a blasted magical wasteland.
The area's ruling faction is not!Iran ruled by not!Telvanni mutant wizards.
>>45617849
Take Atlantis like culture
Drain their sea turning it into a dry bed lake
>>45623324
Dark Sun?
>>45623247
We are not Arabs!
Yes, it's just that you are uncreative and ignorant of the fact that every other desert has cultures of its own and that the Arabs aren't the only thing in the middle East.
>>45623874
Oil?
>>45622617
The only worthwhile answer
>>45617849
Yes, Babylonian Sumeria, Egyprian, Israelites Philistine, Hittite.
>>45623792
You should've stayed Zoroastrians.
>>45624792
But the crazed mudslimes.
>>45618503
>ice desert
*tundra
>>45624844
After a google tundra does not look like a desert.
>>45617849
Well, I've heard good things about Dark Sun!
>>45621505
>>45622588
This
Just a bunch of american mormons that were sent to fantasy-land by their space-god. They are constantly working on weird, alien machinations behind the scenes but never actually seem to do anything outright malevolent. They just chill out at their creep ass communes, build magic items, raise their occasionally mutant-psion children.
Also they carry laser pistols made of gold, except their leaders, those guys have heat vision and the word of God* on their side.
They would be Flumphs of eldritch cults: strange and grotesque but ultimately benign and even helpful, in their own odd way.
*the word of god can only be spoken with a far-realm accent apparently...
>>45617849
>Long ago there was a mighty civilization of sorcerer kings. Through their magical might they subjugated most of the known world. This would be their undoing.
>In their quest for greater power they cast a great spell, one intended to increase their power a thousand fold, and render them immortal. In their hubris they did not consider any possible ramifications, or side effects.
>The ritual blasted the sorcerer kings, and much of their empire into dust. Each speck containing a portion of their consciousness. They were now immortal, but too scattered to access their greater powers.
>Tribes of nomads live in the desert, the ancestors of that extinct empire. Only they know the proper rituals and routes to pass through the desert safely.
>They watch for signs that the sorcerer kings might be waking up, and use the necromatic and elemental powers passed down to them to lull them back into sleep.
So highly magical, and dangerous desert. Along with a group of people who are able to survive in it, and have a reason to stick around.
>>45617849
What is Prince of Persia (2008) for 1000, Alex?
Seriously, it has one of the best settings in Prince of Persia games, and it doesn't stink of Arabian Nights bullshit.
>>45617849
Friggin' Egypt, OP, come on. This shouldn't be hard.
>>45617849
Yes. Use not!egypt instead. Or the not!jews. Or the not!persians.
Or if you want to avoid that region entierly, the not!aztecs.
>>45621250
Remember to attack innocent travellers and murder them, forcing the armed intervention of he US army
>>45617849
Absolutely.
>>45621250
>nobody mentioning Godsmen
>>45631020
I'm not seeing it.
>>45624844
tundra != ice desert
