What's the most italian setting you can think of?

Sergio Leone pls go

[Aah aah ahhs internally]

Do the zombies surrender and join the survivors?

adidas and nike, some hat and all white clothing.

That's all i can think of.

Not nearly enough gaudy jewelry on that guy.

Renaissance Italy

>When even Italy managed to be cool

Europe with two boots

An Olive Garden, built in the high meadows of Tuscan, Italy...being set upon by a large army of authentic Italian grandmothers, drunk on Chianti and funded by the mafia, armed with pitch forks made of garlic bread sticks. They have each brought their own special sauce, that they will claim is the best, and that they will use to boil the serving staff alive in. A man dressed in a white suit, seeing the whole matter, hops aboard his moped and rides towards the Vatican. The uprising has begun!

Italy were always cool... until they created Italy, the actual thing.
They had 3 thousand years of coolness and screw up in the last 150 years.

Prossibly.

Any setting, if made by me.

You fellas are fairly unimaginative truth be told, I mean there's a wealth of source material and you just use the same four or five factoids. Shit bruvs, step up your essentialization game.

This is fun though. Good job.

Super mario.

Yes, but only as the series progresses and Mario and Luigi become more and more Italian.

Vodacce from 7th Sea.

Ancient Greece.

Italian here. They made this.

gdrzine.com/2012/02/10/la-banda-della-magliana-sui-nostri-tavoli-con-piombo/

It's even in romanesco, goddammit.

Wait, what?

Greek here. Fuck you, stop saying "at least we're not Greeks."

Guidos & Greaseballs: Fuhgeddaboutit

you modern greeks are essentially turks, all the ancient greek blood got bred out of you by centuries of turkroach dicking

They didn't even create Italy, the French did it. Twice.

That said, Italy "not being cool" in the past 150 years is judged solely by its military performance. Guess what? Italy's military performance had ALWAYS been shit with the exception of naval performances for Genoa and Venice. That's what happens when a specialized class of mercenaries gains a monopoly on warfare in Italy, resulting in more of a show than a battle. Anyone who marches across the Alps with an army worth half a fuck can wreck their shit. Notice that the most important wars in Italy (the Italian Wars, Napoleon's Italian campaigns etc.) did not involve any Italians as major parties. In both cases it was the French vs the Habsburgs.

It's entirely unfair to judge the Italians by just their military performance, even if it is atrocious. It makes me wonder why the French have the reputation for being bad at war, when the Italians clearly deserve it better. Even in WW2, the source of France's ridicule, the Italians were getting their shit wrecked by France until Paris fell.

even more laughable, italians with tanks could barely beat somalians with spears

There is an Italian tabletop set in early 60s, but because D-Day was the moment when demons raided Earth, things went to shit pretty quick.
Now I know this sounds just like fantasy kitchen sink, but the game reads as the most Italian thing ever in role-playing games

>Italians built the relatively most powerful empire in the history of mankind
>military performance was always shit
And if you are talking about Hannibal, he was quite clever but was eventually beaten. By the time he left Italy he literally had to do it anyway since he was not able to march out of the province he was in.

The British damn near got their shit pushed in by the Zulu's and somehow fucked up so bad the last Bonaparte heir got killed by a bunch of spearchuckers yet nobody ridicules them for that. Au contraire, Rorke's Drift is depicted as a great act of heroism rather than a bunch of limeys fucking up beyond belief. Hell, even some ill-equiped Boers did better against the Zulus. Just look at the Battle of Blood River.

Either the Italians get too much shit, or the British don't get enough.

He probably means actual Italy, not meme Italy

>Romans beating Carthage
You know how they did that, right?
By throwing so many people into the grinder Carthagians were unable to cope for that. I mean there was a moment when the Republic build 8th fleet after loosing previous seven, to finally grind Carthage down.

Well, there is a saying among non-Anglosaxon historians for this: "What English lost on the battlefield, they will win in the history textbooks".
It covers not only England, but also British and in extend - Americans, as they share the same mentality. No matter how hard their shit gets pushed, you won't EVER read about those events as complete failures in their textbooks (and I'm talking here about academic level, not just elementry school), because they will warp and twist everything to turn it into "tactical retreat" or "insignificant loss" or "quickly reconquered soon after" and other shit.
I dare you - go find any English-written text about First Boer War. Find a single world about British Empire being beaten completely by bunch of farmers playing commando.

The PCs' job is to take 5 level 10 badasses and lose to a pair of level 1 australians.

[Desire to rant about Roman virtue intensifies]

This.

Reading English history books feels like reading fanfiction at times. Especially when shady stuff gets involved or Brits got their shit wrecked.

I'm not questioning "Roman virtues". I'm questioning Roman actual battle performance during Punic Wars. It was basically "We have reserves and we will waste them to grind you down".
After all, they had to reform their army exactly because wasting so many people in Punic Wars there was barely anyone left to conscript the old way.

Hannibal outnumbered the Romans at Zama though. And lost. Hannibal's brother also outnumbered the Romans at Ilipa where they also lost.
Throwing loads of men at Hannibal didn't win the war, it just prevented Hannibal from winning. Rome won because Scipio was a better general than Hannibal was.

Dark eye

I'm Italian and I love this thread.

Generic fantasy with the "common" of the setting as sign language

Sine Requie, it's called. It looks decent, but the authors went full moneygrab and split content among tons of rolebooks.

The setting(s) are very nice.

Italy went back to medieval times, paris is the center of conflict between nazis and what's left of the Resistence, germany is a distopic nazi regime, russia (which is my favourite) basically went "fuck this, we full commie now", built enormous metal cities and put all the population in those vault-like things.

ah, and everywhere, everything that dies turns into a zombie in a period of time between "goddamit john has been hit" and several days.

Zombies range from semi-larval beings to homicidal undead than can also use magic

Italian here, can confirm.

Jokes aside, from what I learned at school (and it's a biased view) the problems were the equipment and the terrible leadership. Italians soldiers were well trained and in the hands of a capable leader (Like Rommel) were able to do something.

Nulla è reale, tutto è lecito. Requiescat in pace.

New Jersey

You're disregarding actual Italian soldiers who would've fought in such conflicts. In the Italian wars those would've been Italians serving as mercenaries and troops drawn by the Habsburgs. The crusades are another example in which Italians would've also fought alongside the French and other groups of people who went on to campaign there.

Italy

other way around pham, most "turks" have very little turkic blood and are actually just turkified greeks/anatolians/etc. (this is why they look more like greeks and middle easterners than they look like mongolians.)

>when he was in Rome in the 1950s, the press asked him whether he felt any ill will towards the Italians for their part in WWII. He is reputed to have said: "No, having them on the other side probably shortened the war by six months."

They ever play ttrpgs on Jersey Shore?

Nah m8. We just say "at least we're not french". which to me is just our envy speaking, but oh well

I don't even think the goddamn portoguese feel the need to remind others they're not greek.

Sine Requie is 40k on stereoids. In the sense that something like that shouldn't take itself seriously AT ANY COST but holy shit, do they take themselves seriously.

The soviet setting is literally Paranoia, played for grimndark.

I hate it with a passion, it's terrible that it's the most famous RPG thing we did after 2000.

Car Lesbians with eurodance playing in the background

RAVIOLI RAVIOLI ZOMBIES ATE MY FAMIOLI

Call of Cthulhu : Jersey Shore

BRO I'M FLIPPIN OUT AT THIS FUCKIN CALAMARI EATIN DREAMS!

To be fair considering the actual CoC characters you see being played it wouldn't sound anything out of the ordinary

>Sine Requie is 40k on stereoids. In the sense that something like that shouldn't take itself seriously AT ANY COST but holy shit, do they take themselves seriously.
>The soviet setting is literally Paranoia, played for grimndark.
>I hate it with a passion, it's terrible that it's the most famous RPG thing we did after 2000.

Il "Made in Italy" è sinonimo di qualità.

(BTW I agree with you, it's not a great game. Also my worst con game experiece ever).

To be fair though The One Ring seems decent for something pretty much old school.

>Maggi e Nepitello have a mixed record with BGs if you ask me

>the glorious revolution
>actually the Dutch invasion

Why is this considered a problem?

The romans had greater resources, so they used them. Their strength did not necessarily lie in every legionnaires performance, but in their ability to equip and supply a large force - and to do so several times over.

Winning a battle counts for nothing if you lose the war.
It's no wonder that everybody knows of the Roman Empire, but people squint at you when mentioning Carthage and their meagre Spanish holdings.

I felt that the soviet setting was more inspired by Asimov (at least, that is how I would play it)

The main problem is that the different settings feel so fucking disconnected one from each other, like, different games altogether.

>tfw my country actually celebrates their failures
It feels weird

>No Part 5 JoJo
for shame

>other way around pham, most "turks" have very little turkic blood and are actually just turkified greeks/anatolians/etc. (this is why they look more like greeks and middle easterners than they look like mongolians.)

>implying

I have a greek friend and the only reason I know he's greek is because he tells me, he looks mid-eastern as fuck.

/Thread

I dunno why exactly, but this thread reminded me of Il Divo and the reporters monologue half way through the film.

God damn that was a good movie

It's one or the other. You're either the most cunning criminal in the country because you never got caught, or you're the most persecuted man in the history of Italy.

It's the worst part

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Hey italianfags, could you tell me something about these games?

Regards,
Kraut