The titans were gods too. The term is argued to just refer to how they moved violently inside of Gaia (hm, maybe also Kronos, when he devoured some of them). The olympian order includes beings which are not the offspring of Zeus, like (duh) Zeus, Hera and Aphrodite.
Ancient Greece RPG Campaign?
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Oh one reason I don't want historical names is I have to work in mythical and legendary elements eg elves. Dwarves etc and if they fail a Titan popping out of Mt Olympis is possible.
Zardnaar
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Probably because I can draw heavily on Assassins Creed Odyssey
.I don't plan on doing the Peloponnesian war or fantasy version.
Rough idea is starting near the frontiers eg Macedon or Epirus equivalent and work in the typical D&D races.
Oracle equivalent of Delphi or Dodona dedicated to Zeus or Apollo will be comparatively near along with a town and maybe small polis like Amifissa.
I want a dark age in there somewhere, not Mycenean ruins and ancient presursor type.
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You just want to relive the glory days of Alexander and role play ruling over Turkey (joke)
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Not really. Only briefly, on a trip to Corfu.
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Ah rgr. Been reading Wikipedia on that area as ot seems good wilderness location in ancient times.
Just watched a video on Farsala just sone dude walking around. It's about the same size at my home town.
Corfu, Ithaca are also on radar as early parts of game starting in Kephalonia.
West of Delphi through to Dodona/Kephalonia.
Always had a head canon view of Greece being bigger it's similar in size to the South Island. Lots of hills so very similar to here but they look different.
Thinking of Mythical Greece with historical names at least for main areas. Call it Hellas
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I'm aware South Island here is larger than both. NZs bit bigger than it looks on map. It's bigger than UK. Tourists turn up and think sonething is an hour or two away but might be a 5 or 8 hour drive because of terrain or its bigger than they thought or the road there isn't a highway.
If it was in Europe it would stretch from top of Denmark to Bordeaux or Spanish border roughly.
Hence the dumb questions about Delphi to Thermopylae. I have to draw a D&D map which doesn't do scaling that well sometimes.
I'll drive 4 hours to get to the next highest city but 2 hour drive Inland is a long way idk why lol.
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FriendlyFire
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Greece is just a tiny bit larger than England; 131.957 km² to 130.279 km².
So New Zealand roughly has the combined size of Greece and England. Congratulations, you are big
Big ?
UK has more then 10x the population and Greece has its rich history. NZ on the other hand gets fame for being left off maps
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Stealth NZ for when the bombs start flying.
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Don't take it personally, maps here have Europe in the center, that means that everything south is already smaller, then NZ is on the other side on the of the globe too.
Causes all sorts of issues when projected on a flat map, needs to fit on a table.
Can't you just make a map with NZ in the center ? Then Belgium would be gone...
Edit, here you go :
You don't really live in a corner of the world, it's just projection
Peters Map of the World: South-Orientated and Pacific-Centered : Huber Kartographie GmbH, Peters, Arno: Amazon.com.be: Books
Peters Map of the World: South-Orientated and Pacific-Centered : Huber Kartographie GmbH, Peters, Arno: Amazon.com.be: Books
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Game night tomorrow.
Using historical names starting near Oracle of Delphi.
Thanks for all the help more ideas are good. Greek name generator was magic.
Basically bandits have been harassing pilgrims. The bandit trail will lead back to a dodgy Spearlord of Amfissa. Said spear lord will be a member of a cult corrupting the oracle. The oracle is built over an Atlantean ruin.
There they will encounter an Atlantean in "spirit" form. The Oracle of Zeus at Dodona will be another Atlantean at odds with the other one.
Both are independent of what's going on at Delphi. After this probably sail to Megara head to Athens.
Using historical names starting near Oracle of Delphi.
Thanks for all the help more ideas are good. Greek name generator was magic.
Basically bandits have been harassing pilgrims. The bandit trail will lead back to a dodgy Spearlord of Amfissa. Said spear lord will be a member of a cult corrupting the oracle. The oracle is built over an Atlantean ruin.
There they will encounter an Atlantean in "spirit" form. The Oracle of Zeus at Dodona will be another Atlantean at odds with the other one.
Both are independent of what's going on at Delphi. After this probably sail to Megara head to Athens.
Due to the oracle, Delphi was a protected city. There was a formal alliance of protector states, including Athens, Sparta, Macedonia etc. When Phokis (which is next to Delphi) took control of the city, war broke out, and it was during that war that Macedonia rose from a secondary power (a protectorate of Sparta more or less) to a major power, since it annexed Thessaly (this city is named - through Phillip B's daughter, married to Kassander- to commemorate exactly the event; means "Victory over Thessaly") and also dealt with Phokis so as to sneak an army undetected past the Thermopylae and therefore force Athens/Thebes to meet it on land, at the famous and decisive battle of Chaeronia.
While Phokis was too small to command an imposing army, it melted all the silver and gold in the oracle of Delphi so as to hire 20.000 mercenaries. Those were defeated by Phillip B.
Thebes couldn't play that role, because it had sent its own army for a merc gig in Persia. So unwittingly they sealed their fate - to be razed to the ground by Alexander.
While Phokis was too small to command an imposing army, it melted all the silver and gold in the oracle of Delphi so as to hire 20.000 mercenaries. Those were defeated by Phillip B.
Thebes couldn't play that role, because it had sent its own army for a merc gig in Persia. So unwittingly they sealed their fate - to be razed to the ground by Alexander.
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Yeah I'm not doing 100% historical. Delphi is safe from politics and city states.
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In a semi-historical representation of any place or period in history that posits magic and the gods are real, places like the Panhellenic Sanctuaries could be almost literally impenetrable, not just places that the neighboring city-states agree to leave alone. In D&D terms, the High Priestess of Delphi could be something like an 18th or 20th level Cleric of Apollo, who would have access to spells like Firestorm and Divine Word. If she's 18th level, she could cast Gate and summon a Celestial (or whatever). If she's 20th level, she could literally call Apollo himself to Earth to help (Divine Intervention, Improved). And that's not even considering the other clerics & paladins, a couple of whom could be 10th or 15th level themselves.
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She's not that high in level. She's a 9th level cleric on hallowed ground. And it's kinda iffy if she has access to her spells. She has been giving false prophecy it's one of my early plot lines lvl 3 or so.
The delphine (priestess at Delphi) was very skilled in forming sentences in ways which could be taken to mean many different things. Among the most famous such oracle statements was one given to a man who asked if he would survive a coming war.
The response by the oracle, as was typical, had no comma anywhere, so could read (depending on where you placed the comma) either as "you will go (to battle), (and) you will return, not having died in the war" or "you will go (to battle), (but) will not return, having died in the war".
Original greek: "ήξεις αφήξεις ουκ εν πολέμω θνήξεις"; comma for the first is after the second word, for the second after the first and third words. It even rhymes, what more could one ask for
The response by the oracle, as was typical, had no comma anywhere, so could read (depending on where you placed the comma) either as "you will go (to battle), (and) you will return, not having died in the war" or "you will go (to battle), (but) will not return, having died in the war".
Original greek: "ήξεις αφήξεις ουκ εν πολέμω θνήξεις"; comma for the first is after the second word, for the second after the first and third words. It even rhymes, what more could one ask for
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Is that AI art of Belle Delphine?
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