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If Mr. Ziviani's work only covers Iceland there may be quite a bit of room for Norwegian/Swedish/Danish settings and adventures.
There was a product put out by Columbia Games, Lionheart, on England in the time of Richard the Lionheart. Very detailed wtih a chronology, essays on what life was like and the political situations. All in all a great primer for a campaign in that time period.
I think that people would be interested in seeing such for BRP. My thoughts on this:
Include stats for major and minor historical characters.
Includes things from the legends and folktales.
Discuss how magic is thought to work in a particular time period.
Maps!
Chronologies/lineages.
Essays on the culture and daily living.
With this the GM can set up what he wants to do with the setting. Go very historical, low magic, high magic, or trick it out as a fantasy option. For instance a nitty gritty Roman setting, an option with limited magic (and no one is sure that it actually works!), an option with major magicians aiding or countering the Pax Romana, or one in which it was the Elves that ambushed the legions in the Teutoburgerwald.
Give adventures, maybe a half dozen large multi session ones, some smaller one shots, and lots of adventure hooks. The idea being that I would certainly want to get a lot of value out of a particular setting.
Crossing over into other settings could be interesting also. This could be done with just adventure hooks that require PCs to travel to distant lands- Beowulf anyone? Another thought is to produce campaign packs for historical cultures and produce supplements to cover what happens when those cultures clash. For instance an Anglo-Saxon setting and a Viking setting are interesting by themselves but a supplement that covers the Viking invasions and the Danelaw would be really neat also.
Just a thought.
Joseph Paul
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