Egyptian/Arabian Settings in C&C?

TheNewGuy · Post by **TheNewGuy** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:55 am

Anyone know if there are any suitable ""Ancient Egypt" or "Sindbhad's Arabia" people or places in the world of Aihrde that I can use?

Thank you!

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slimykuotoan · Post by **slimykuotoan** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:29 am

I'm struggling with this as well:

Aihrde est cool as a germanic thingy, but without desert spices and exotic cultures, I feel like I'm left alittle high 'n dry.

Stuie · Post by **Stuie** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:00 am

I tried to find a decent Egyptian setting. In the end, I went with homebrew.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:39 pm

Take the Hamanaptra Green Ronin product and put it on the map somewhere. Its what I do.
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TheNewGuy · Post by **TheNewGuy** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:49 pm

Treebore wrote:
Take the Hamanaptra Green Ronin product and put it on the map somewhere. Its what I do.

I hear ya, Tree, but more and more I'm beginning to realize that I may have to abandon the idea of using Aihrde as a setting.

It's a good setting, and I'd like to use iit, but it's also starting to seem pretty narrow, as slimy says. If I have to start importing whole sections, like Hamunaptra, then I might as well go homebrew and have everything I need be thus "official".

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of over-detailed setting like the Forgotten Realms, where every last rock and blade of grass seems to be mapped out, catalogued, and described in a special supplementary sourcebook.

But I'd appreciate a world map that essentially indicated broad regions and said things like "This is where the people live, and then made it clear in the text that they were essentially a fantasy arabian culture, or fantasy egyptian, or what have you.

To be fair, Aihdre DOES do this to a certain degree. It's pretty clear that Aihdre has its fantasy roman culture, and its fantasy ancient greek/sparten culture ("THIS! IS! TAGEA!!!" ) -- but if Steve Chenault hadn't told me here himself that the Rykaard were essentially fantasy polynesians, I never would've guessed from the campaign setting text.

Not banging on Steve Chenault or the Aihrde setting, just starting to wonder if a homebrew setting might be more accomodating for me in the long run.

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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:09 am

I like how Airhde takes from certain European elements, but if you read about all the continental areas the setting is actually pretty broad.

Heck, you have the home of the Norse Gods up to the North by North West. You have the home of the Faerie to the north and east, you have several rather unique types of peoples in the southern regions.

Plus I know of no other setting that has an Egyptian type peoples in it other than the Wilderlands.

GH doesn't have it, even the mighty Faerun doesn't have it, just a twisted version around Mulharond and Thay.

So you pretty much have to put it into most settings.

Hamanaptra is so nicely done you may as well.

Besides, my campaign world is a world containing all of my favorite settings. So Airhde, GH, Wilderlands, Blackmoor, Faerun, etc... are all on the same world anyways. Squeezing in a Egyptian type country isn't hard. What shocked me, is even though I am using many settings, they are so geographically small the world isn't much bigger than earth.
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seskis281 · Post by **seskis281** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:39 am

Treebore wrote:
Plus I know of no other setting that has an Egyptian type peoples in it other than the Wilderlands.

Hey now! S'Funny you mention... I also always liked the Egyptian motifs, ergo...

Check out the Kingdom of the Sun portion of my Ilshara setting.

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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 4:45 pm

Gary Gygax's NECROPOLIS (Necromancer Games) is a nice little Egyptian campaign setting. Very nice.

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