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Originally Posted by badcat
I don't know. I can see some here are interested, but I have delved into the Icelandic sagas and histories, and from what I can remember it seems it would be a little bland. What sort of adventures would you have, other than raiding and feuding and fighting the occasional troll?  |
Roman Empire? What's there to do apart from conquering new lands, buying slaves and a bit of trading?
SuperHero Games? Running around in lycra saving the world.
Medieval Europe? Avoiding the plague, trying not to be invaded or drafted in an army, fighting foreign wars.
Every setting has the potential of many different scenarios. A Fantasy Iceland setting can acyually double as a Fantasy Scandinavian setting and can cover lands as diverse as Iceland, Greenland, Vinland (as has been mentioned), Ireland, Northern and Western Scotland, Northern and Eastern England, Northern France and Russia. Trading and travelling would be key as would kinstrife, blood feuds, monster fighting, settling new lands, fighting, raiding, taking slaves and exploring. There's the clash between cultures, the clash between religions, the clash between the old ways of raiding and the new ways of settling. A Viking character could quite easily find himself on the Black Sea or American coast as the North Sea or Atlantic Ocean. Stories such as Pathfinder, both the original and the new one, would fit such a setting hands down.
Also, used together with other Fantasy Europe settings, it could form part of a larger set of scenarios/campaigns.
So, you can find adventure in any setting.