What are some interesting time periods to set a fantasy campaign in?

The Rise and Fall of China.
The Japanese Occupation of China.
The Cultural Revolution.

>Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west.
>Hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.

You and I are now friends.

Axis victory world. Nazis win, do crazy ass shit with super science, while Japan bio-engineers Kaiju and launching deep sea archeological digs on the bottom of the Dragon's Triangle. But not all is well in Hitler's magnificent world of tomorrow. It's a world where Robots and Werewolves prowl the Siberian tundra, where Yokai-possessed mecha terrorize the steppes of Asia.

And, in Las Vegas the streets are patrolled by the vengeful "Indomitable Trump". A billionaire scarred by the murder of his parents at a young age, he seeks to free his homeland from the Nazi's sphere of influence. His slogan, "make America great again."

Aaaand thread ruined. Later folks, I'm out.

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-WW1
-The scramble for Africa
-The English Civil War(s)
-The golden age of piracy
-The colonisation of the americas
-The migration era
-The first Punic war
-The breakup of Alexander's empire
-Ancient greece
-Ancient Egypt

None of them are interesting enough not work without filling with fantasy shit apparently, so the real answer is that literally any of them is if only you fill them without enough fantasy of the kind you find interesting.

Run an Aztec campaign where the universe actually is powered through ritual sacrifices, and the morally correct thing to do is take many prisoners and cut their hearts out.

Try to work on your coherency, a bit, maybe?

Also, seconding WWI and Classical Antiquity.

How about the players are legionnaires a Roman century who have been stationed in Albion, towards the end of the Roman empire (4th or 5th century AD). They're present to fend off the Celtic and Scottish barbarians and the like, but instead, find themselves drawn into mystic Celtic druidism. You could draw heavily from Old English and Celtic folklore here.

Or, with WWI, the possibilities are endless (and usually grim). Just go full dieselpunk (if you're one of the people who isn't sent into a frothing rage at appending that suffix to a word to establish a particular type of genre).

>desperate soldiers in a trench caught between monstrosities stitched together from the corpses of their former comrades and automaton killing machines that no neither mercy nor remorse
>bootleggers on the run from the voodoo mafia of New Orleans
>a motley crew of ragtag adventurers stop the Iron Kaiser and Mechano von Bismark from unleashing their Blitzzeppelin fleet upon an unsuspecting Europe
>Chinese communists unleashing undead sorcerers to destroy Shanghai
>save Professor Futurium's robot from the sledgehammers of the Luddite Brigade
>vampires preying on Okies migrating during the Dustbowl
>a crack team of Marine Raiders infiltrating a Japanese floating fortress in an attempt to sink it before it's raygun artillery spells doom for the Pacific Fleet

You could even do some early space stuff, if you want to tread into WWII/early Soviet era.

Victorian Era/American Civil War.

Thirty Years' War

Vietnam

Revolutionary war era. Hear me out;

I'm thinking late 1700's, but early as 1600's will work.

An era where conventional tech can rival magic, where assassination isn't the only quick way to stop wizards. Power is shifting and regular man has abilities while not being the opressive Magic haters usually seen in similar settings. Designs would start to shift toward the modern era, allowing really cool clothing. It's pretty neat if you give it a try

You could even do something modern day, if you're willing to brave the murky depths of urban fantasy.

How about a group of people living in a shitty, run-down apartment in a big city, living week-to-week on paychecks, and then suddenly they get a notice from the managers/owners telling them the building is being sold to make way for a Dave n Busters, as part of the gradual gentrification of this neighborhood? On their quest to try and stop it, they discover there's more in Heaven and Earth than they thought possible, and perhaps there's more to them, too...

Your poor reading comprehension is not my lack of coherency. If a time period is interesting, then you don't need to inject fantasy into it, and if you need to then it can't be particularly interesting. If you can inject fantasy, then any time period can be made interesting enough.

Uncle Terry: The RPG

>Your poor reading comprehension is not my lack of coherency.

>None of them are interesting enough not work without filling with fantasy shit apparently

Not that user, but your posts are pretty incoherent.

I've been trying to work on some rules for a setting like that, but guns are a terrible equalizer. Suddenly the goon squad will shoot the PCs dead instantly, while the PCs can only shoot the goons one at a time.

Seems I made a weird typo there, "not" was meant to be "to". Still, not that hard to figure out.

I'm currently working on that. The best way to fix it so far has been to make the weapons hard to reload.

Yeah, you can have an awesome gun, but it also costs a lot, is tedious to find the right ammo/gunppowder, and it takes a full turn to reload in between each shot. It should also have a lower chance of hitting if you are working in this area, as guns weren't exactly known for their accuracy at this point in time. It's the classic damage vs. accuracy ratio.

Plus, if the other guy has guns, your PCs shouldn't be so stupid as to just rush in.

That's the thing. It's easy to make guns bad for PCs to prevent them from being overpowered, but you can't make them so bad as to be worthless, and a bunch of goons with bad guns can still get a volley off. Eventually, statistics say someone's getting a musket ball up the urethra.

The PCs are knights finding out that, hard as they try, everyone having a ranged weapon means that they're going to get blasted a few times no matter how hard they try. Especially if you try and do a campaign where the PCs ever take to the battlefield, which is a big chunk of the reason for a game in that time period (because who doesn't want to see a bunch of redcoats form square to repel golems).

Well, a lot of people died because of guns. Guns made it a lot easier to kill. Maybe try to steer them towards either less direct conflict or armored conflict. Or help them figure out how to use magic to beat up guns. Magic is a lot more accurate than your guns should be, and is a lot more versatile.

All of them

Opium Wars China too.
Bleeding Kansas/Mexican-American War US
Industrialization Japan
1917 Russia

Hellenistic Period. That's when shit started to get interesting, empires and trade began to flourish, the rise of lingua franca, and you had philosophers, scientists, and scholars have enough time and resources to puzzle the world out

Also, because who doesn't want to play as Islander?

The French religious wars. Catholics vs. Protestants, lasted over a hundred years.

Fucking Muslims have clue the can of worms they're poking by trying to goad the French into a religious war. They are a very passionate and contentious people who not lack the amount of empathy presumed to be normal in another person, but they don't give a fuck about pretending to not have it.

They're pretty much like the Scots, except so good at war and fighting that usually one side is able to actually win and hold power for long enough to get shit done. As opposed to everyone being contentious picks but also kind of being crap at getting things done or organized or being able to follow through over multiple years.

France has the world record for number of foreign wars with Britain being a close second, mainly by virtue of having been the most frequent enemy and ally of the French people over the years. 2000 years of either fighting themselves, or when that was done give or take 20 - 50 years, fighting pretty much everyone and winning surprisingly often before fighting themselves again.

They don't even like to fight, really, it's just their default state.

Pretty much any point in history, shit is happening in France that would make a good campaign.

bronze age

>Fucking Muslims have clue the can of worms they're poking by trying to goad the French into a religious war.
They're poking a can of empty worms, because France is dead on the inside, and has grown so accustomed to Muslims it actually desires more. ;_;7

...not sure if /pol/

You talking about modern France?

Taking pf as a template (only fantasy rpg besides dsa i know well)
I would change the rules of guns
First to equalize peasents to mages guns ignore all modifiers besides dex which usually still are apply to touch AC.
(Explanation could be that things like mage armor don't register bullets due to their size)
Secondly guns don't need a to-hit but rather hit things below a certain AC (everything below ac 16 is hit automatically) good gunskill grants an flat increase or the ability to add d6.
Massed volley or repeated attacks would lower the target ac.
If you set the ac so that untrained people are hit by trained shooter you can broadly retain battle scenario.
But most importantly your soldier due to their wellcrafted armor ans supernatural quickness and skill can fight goons who miss due to their incopetence but many peasent could uprise against wizards.

>...not sure if /pol/
At this point, everything that disagrees with the mainstream is /pol/.

>You talking about modern France?
Clearly. I'm not exactly talking about the Third Republic here.

Oooh

Well please go back to /pol/

Though you are probably a troll.

So I'm going to stop feeding you.

They get a lot of flak for being cheese eating surrender monkeys these days, but when the French take the kid gloves off they can get fucking viscous.

Your original post was just as /pol/ m8, people have got different opinions, so accept it. You don't get to spout yours and then palm off everyone elses.

Weeks after the death of King Arthur
Golden Age of Piracy
Wars of the Roses
First Crusade where all the enemies are Golems and their controllers
Fall of Atlantis

>Weeks after the death of King Arthur
>mfw my DM is planning to start a game that takes place a century or two after King Arthur has died and England has been thrown into chaos
>mfw I convinced him to make this period coincide with Charlemagne kicking around on the continent

Yes I do.

Because mine are Veeky Forums related.

>Implying I'm the same person :^)

Also props for getting me to respond, I bet you were hoping I'd say something like "user's is actual history" so you could justify going on your crazy /pol/ rant from your no-doubt "unbiased" sources. I'm done responding to you, for reals this time, so feel free to say whatever you want so you can feel like you won the argument

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Yeah, I don't think it's really emphasised how badly the first world war fucked france - there's still areas that are poisoned from the war, a century later.
messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/

The strategic and tactical failures in the fall of france aren't really excusable, but the decision to surrender was uderstandable

Also, the Commonwealth of England and Swedish Age of Liberty, both of which preceeded the French Revolution. The 17th and 18th century in general, and the struggle between monarchism and repuclicanism in particular is way underrepresented in the fantasy genre.

TRUST NO ONE WHO BEARS A SWORD

Don't let the door hit you on your way out, you sensitive little faggot.

Nice

>Weeks after the death of King Arthur

I have a dream of one day running a campaign I;ve been working on for years, "To The Strongest." The PCs are low-level military in a great Eastern empire being invaded by a numerically inferior but tactically superior army. They lose the big battle, and get conscripted into the Western army as auxiliaries. Through skill and daring, they catch the eyes of one of the generals, and get promoted to elite troops- as the army continues to conquer east, the party does all kinds of risky missions and earns notoriety and rewards of money, land and women. Even the charismatic young King of the West likes them.

Eventually, the army finishes the conquest and returns to the West, to refit for another campaign. Then the King dies suddenly, with no declared heir. All the spoils of empire are up for the taking, the generals are eyeing each other with swords drawn, and the PCs have just enough power to tip the scales. To whom does the empire belong? To The Strongest.

Pussy.

So you basically want desert storm and years of martial law and adventuring to go with Tiberium Sun and Command and Conquer.

No they want memetrash the campaign "can i play pepe XD" and anyone who says that's faggy must be >triggered

I've been thinking of a setting that's basically fantasy late cold war. But with a different political balance.
Why? Because I want autistic military porn and qt elves at the same time.

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I'd like to try a 1910 era timeframe where tensions are really high between kingdoms (be it real europe or fantasy kingdoms) and the PCs are trying to keep a war from breaking out.

>viscous

Like jelly? No wonder they aren't big on fighting these days.

Nah, it's because they only finally managed to stop killing each other by creating a single national identity, accidentally kicking of Nationalism as an ideal for the rest of the world.

And many of them would rather die than break their laws or bend their culture to Muslims. Not because they give a fuck about muzzies, but because they actually care about maintaining their own culture and laws.

But if people keep pushing . . .

They're fine banning Burqhas, deporting radicals, prohibiting headscarf or other signs of religion in public places etc.

And if that doesn't get the Immigrants to understand that the most important thing about being a citizen of France is to be a Frenchman, then they will either be driven back out or killed.

Hell look how France deals with protestor like Greenpeace or PERA.

When the railroad was put across Canada and the United states, druids fighting the progress of technology with fantasy animals while the players are trying to get enough resources and land deeds to complete their sacred quest

For cold iron and hot lead is all you can trust

eastern bloc in the 70s "golden era" of communism

fucktons of different ethnicities that can be altered as you wish as well as brutalism everywhere

a darkness forged in fire is a top tier book for that

1930s adventure setting. Bonus points for occult nazis and contemporary sci-fi

1980's Miami

Sengoku Jidai That's Warring States Period for you filthy gaijin

.... Carolus leading a protestant crusade ageinst monsters, I can dig it.

Cold War in general.

The Bronze Age Collapse.

The end of the Trojan War coincides with the eruption and tsunami that destroys Atlantis, land of the merpeople. They lash out in all directions, seeking coastal lands and slaves to rebuild. Their monopoly on the orichalcum makes them the only ones capable of drawing power of ley lines and channeling magic through metallic wands.

The amazons retreated to the steppes, razing the black sea breadbasket on the way, believing the distance from the sea will shield them from the worst.

The trade shipping that maintains bronze production is shattered. The Hittites are a pale shadow of themselves, but pockets resist around the miraculous smiths capable of working the sky metal.

Hercules is nowhere to be seen after the sack of Troy, the last time anyone saw him was when he impregnated the Skythia Drakaina years ago.

Achilles is dead.

Food and metallic weapons are more important than gold and civilization.

It is a time of many needs, but who will provide?

I like Napoleonic and Revolutionary era's.

Only partially on topic I'd recommend the books

His Majesty's Dragon, and The Powder Mage trilogy for similar time period fantasy reads.

Powder Mage is set in its own universe, but its around that same time period. Muskets, early rifles, and Bi and Tricorn hats.

Fuck yeah, I love the actual apocalypse.

The Great Emu War, Australia, 1932

>The Japanese Occupation of China.
Sounds like a hentai.

>The Japanese Occupation of China.
Never happened. The Japanese never occupied mainland china.

So what happened from 1937-1945?

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Japanese soldiers were on holiday, the nation did nothing wrong.

All of them. Have them part of a group of immortals sent back in time who slowly gather resources to fund their high tech and high magic society, then proceed to try and murder other groups of immortals, both knock each other back in terms of resources and they have to gather them again. Adventures take place as slow political things, trying to ferret out the agitators in other societies before the lot of you go full murder on each other.

They were developing hentai, for the good of the world.

>Prehistoric man.

I'll settle for prehistoric anything, probably because whatever happens early people are probably vastly outnumbered by whatever the fuck they're fighting.