What are some historical civilizations or time periods you'd like to see more of? Fantasy or sci-fi

Pre-Bronze Age collapse Mediterranean. It was a totally different world back then.

Good taste

The mad man. I wish his name wasn't Justinian so he could be more famous.

I want to see old Russia that is not half-assed for once, but is actually done with research that goes beyond watching a bunch of Hollywood movies.

American Civil War era stuff. I'd love to play a game set during the civil war.

What is keeping the gold noes in place?

19th century without steampunk garbage.

Medieval India, during the rise or fall of the Mughals. Play three campaigns so your players get attached, then splinter the old empire while it's in the midst of war with the Maratha equivalent and have your Brits land and start playing factions off against one another before turning a formerly great empire into a nation size guinea pig for the philosophical whimsy of their bourgeois class.

The 19th century by itself is much better than Steampunk garbage.
>rising colonial empires
>the decay of royalty and religion
>republicanism on the rise
>the apex of Reason and reach of the West
>the first revolutions of socialism
Steampunk is the only genre of fantasy that does the feat of making the era it's based on look blander than it actually is

>Busir was offered a bribe by Tiberios to kill his brother-in-law, and dispatched two Khazar officials, Papatzys and Balgitzin, to do the deed.[17] Warned by his wife, Justinian strangled Papatzys and Balgitzin with his own hands.[18] He sailed in a fishing boat to Cherson, summoned his supporters, and they all sailed westwards across the Black Sea.[19]

Rad.

Dunno, maybe it has nostril atachments.

I prefer Komnenian, but good taste.

Now this is some refined taste.

The Komnenian dynasty would fit more for an RPG, but I find the empire borders during the Macedonian dynasty so comfy

I mean just look at it .

Byznatines and pre-Bronze Age collapse are great suggestions.

Let me add Greco-Bactria. It was a weird post-Alexander, Macedonian, Hindu, Buddhist mash-up centered on modern day Afghanistan.

Steampunk is garbage because no one wants to be punk in the era of steam, which is really fucking idiotic because being punk in the era of steam was becoming legitimate. The Communist Manifesto, the Luddites, the Revolutions of 1848, the Anarchists of Russia, the Parisian Commune.

But steampunk doesn't want to be dirty poor people. They want to be fancy rebellious nobility, top hats and shirts and boots and all (despite the poor wearing all of those fucking things) the fancy technology they can muster and AIRSHIPS and MECHA. And that's why it fails. If I see the suffix -punk there, I want to read about PUNKS, not POSERS, not some rich girl going to the most fancy technological college in London and has to disguise herself as a boy to do so.

>fighting off actual armies as the Paris Commune with ghettotech power armor
YES

>Medieval China. Yuan China.
>Medieval Japan

This.

I'd like some Seven Years War or Napoleonic stuff, but I feel like those've been done and I just haven't looked in the right place.

Byzantines
Ottoman Empire
Colonial Americas
Literally any period in Chinese history
The same for India and Indochina
Or Russia
Or Central Asia

Vikings, growing your tribte/holdings and gradually grow in glory and honor, increasingly raiding your enemies.

Rome, fight for the Senate, the Plebs and all that goes with it. Imposing order, law and culture wherever you go.

Nazi Germany, navigate the political labyrinth of the Third Reich, maintain your holding of your own influence while prosecuting a war of expansion.

The time before the continents were torn asunder.

>You will never know the tales of the Gorgonopsid-men
Feels bad

This.
Also, the era of Pike and Shot, particularly the horrors of the 30 years war, or the English Civil wars.

I'd like to see more stone- and bronze age stuff. Sort-of Sword and Sorcery, but less grim and gritty. Also less stage mages and more actual shamans/wizard-priests. And mammoth riders.

Seriously though, I think stone swords are ridiculously awesome

>Nazi Germany, navigate the political labyrinth of the Third Reich, maintain your holding of your own influence while prosecuting a war of expansion.

But most people find the idea of playing actual historical Nazis pretty unappetizing, and for good reason.

Indeed, but is it really any different to any other ancient times. Almost all of them committed genocide on some scale, the only thing holding them back was ability.

>Not paying 250 marks for a uniform spun from top-heavy, blue eyed blond women

And climate change faggots going blame us for this too right?
Instead of just attributing change of climate and frequency of earthquakes due to the planet having another of its growth phase and have less resources to stabilize the weather on it.

Of course not. We weren't responsible for that one. We are responsible for this one.

I am sure all your (((plans))) to counter climate change isn't to mostly enrich your and your friends own pockets and bank accounts and obviously have good and definitive measuring standards to define success.

It's not like there is no measuring standards set in place because everyone involved just want to have their huge payout thanks to shares, (((consultation position))) and connections, courtesy of hapless taxpayers, right?

The whole climate change debate is fucking retarded. It doesn't matter if its our fault or not, all that matters is what's going to happen and what we as a species can do about it. If limiting greenhouse gas emissions will buy us another 10 years before everything goes to shit, why would we not do it?

But instead it's turned into a political battlefield where politicians dickwave about carbon (which is nearly irrelevant in terms of global greenhouse effect; there's unregulated shit that gets vented straight to atmosphere that's thousands and thousands of times more potent) and shit on people just trying to get to work in the morning without even attempting to do anything about the actual problems.

NZ Wars (1860s-70s)
Russo-Japanese Wars (1904 - 1905)
WW1
Russian Civil War (1919 - 1922)
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (1970s - 80s)
Yugoslav wars 1990s
Chechen wars

Because the whole Climate Change Movement is doing more damage, take the Prius for example, before the car has even gone on the road it has done many more millions of miles than any car will ever do.

It does more harm, further harm, to the environment it is said to protect.

>to mostly enrich you and your friends own pockets
>no measuring standards
I have never heard of Contraction and Convergence In My Life: The Post

The russian civil war is so interesting and has so many factions to pick up from
>liberal/conservative whites
>communist reds
>ruralist greens
>anarchist blacks
It's a period of utter chaos that perfectly justifies and satisfies the existence of murderhobos.

Totally agree. Very fascinating time. Cruising around in Tchankas fighting for whoever gives you some food. Then the Japanese show up, or the US with some tanks...

Check out this "red western" film set in the Russian Civil War, damn good watch:
youtube.com/watch?v=0Kiml-N0ExU

Don't forget the foreign interventions, and the various nationalist rebellions.

Also wossname who decided to go become Khan of Mongolia or something.

Roman von Ungern-Sternberg.

Believe me, the more you read about that psycho the more you realize truth is wayyyyyyyyy stranger than fiction.

Motherfucker, you're okay.

I came here to post the Hittites.

>Russo-Japanese Wars (1904 - 1905)

Great suggestion. Japan dispatched what we'd call special ops group deep into Siberia to try and disrupt the Trans-Siberian railroad, incite rebellions among the nomadic people, and other thing.

I hear you user. I made a steampunk setting where the people in charge were awful, revolution and war were right around the corner, and even the "good", scientifically progressive nation had secret police and torture chambers.

First thing one of my players asks me:

>"Can I be a princess?"

Sudden, /pol/tard out of fucking nowhere

Pre WW1. Like, a couple of months just prior to the assassination. Bonus points if the players are unofficially on government payroll and of low birth.

I'd like a WHFB style game set in fantasy prehistorical times

I'm imagining huge armies of painted caveman miniatures fighting each other.

Read Whitechapel gods. Its baisically this except the peasents are the oppressed citizens of steampunk North Korea.

What the hell does this have to do with ancient cultures that aren't represented enough in cool stuff?

Kind of like using the Warhammer ancients rules with wizard characters or something?

I really don't think there will ever be a resurgence in early modern fantasy as that time period is too heavily associated with European colonialism. Lot of baggage that comes with that I don't see being lifted any time soon. Even Steampunk Victorian era stuff is pushing it

Personally I've always been obsessed with Weimar Era Germany. It's such an interesting and an all too familiar tragedy.

>Hyler advanced cultural and scientific output
>Nazi and Commie thugs beating each other to a pulp in the streets on a daily basis
>all kinds of weird secret societies and subcultures ranging from the sexually taboo to hardline far right Freikorps cosplayers who dress up as soldiers and would later become the basis for the Nazi party
>enormous proliferation of scientific literature exploring human sexuality and sexual liberation including early precursor to modern day LGBT that was at least a hundred years ahead of its time in terms of perspective and insight
>original birthplace of film as a form of art years before Hollywood's golden age
>ineffective and increasingly desperate government trying to maintain control

Easily the most fascinating moment in human history. German sexologists were producing short films advocating for the rights of homosexuals decades before America would decriminalise gay behaviour as well as removing it as being a clinical mental disorder.

Yeah, the gay culture of pre-Nazi Germany has always fascinated me. It's such a huge anomaly between the late 19th century and the 1930s.

Did you let them become a princess?

Medieval Italian city states

Yup. Even more fascinating was the early paramilitary wing of the Nazi party was staffed by many openly gay men, most notably Ernst Rohm - Hitler's close friend and leader of the SA. He was eventually purged during the Knight of Long Knives but there is significant evidence that Hitler was aware of Rohm's homosexuality for a long time and IIRC privately justified it by saying that Rohm and his men had "warrior spirits" and weren't bound to "ethics" or something along those lines. Rohm reportedly was also the only person who Hitler allowed to call him by hks first name and one of the few people who would openly and nonchalantly disagree with him on things (which is what probably got him and his men purged)

>Knight of Long Knives

I'm a retard, I meant "Night of Long Knives"

I lay awake at night, ashamed and confused by the fact that the left can't beat a party made up of people like this.

I knew what you meant user

I do that all the time

Sounds like a bitching character concept, though.

Dude where in the FUCK did you pull this from? I have never seen someone go from 0 to /pol/ so quickly

Yes it would have to be a villain of sorts though as the name is much too menacing for a good natured hero - oh and the Nazi stuff too

Majority of people did vote for Hillary, he only won by the loopiest of loopholes. All things considered there's absolutely no reason why he should be allowed to be president

It almost lends credence to the Kek and meme magic shit when you consider that nobody but /pol/ thought Trump would win and even though he lost by a few million votes he STILL manages to walk away as president. Either he's bulletproof lucky or maybe in /pol/ foolishness they they really did reawaken an ancient Egyptian chaos god

>All things considered there's absolutely no reason why he should be allowed to be president

I mean, I don't LIKE Trump (I don't much like Hillary but consider her the boring, safe option) but there is plenty of good reason. Mostly 'People knew about this system going in'. You might not like how it works but you can't really claim it's a surprise that it can happen when the system was designed to not be the will of the majority.

Go and get reform for the NEXT president to be decided by actual majority but he did win by the current rules.

The positive that can be taken from this election is that it might awaken americans to the problems with their electoral system and that perhaps you shouldn't be concentrating sweeping powers in one person if someone you don't like can wield them.

The electoral college isn't new. It's not even the first time a president loses the popular vote but wins.

I always wanted an ancient egyptian setting. I feel like it could be an interesting setting, if you added some fantasy elements into it.

Yeah, it's the 4th time it's happened like this (John Quincy Adams was less this and more 'Nobody won so they needed to pick').

I'm not remotely suggesting a conspiracy but I find it kinda funny that literally every single time it was republicans who won this way.

yeah, too many fantasy things take the looks of ancient Egypt without looking at the interesting parts of the culture and mythology

Don't worry about the electoral college. Trump isn't stopping urbanization. Within the half century, all a democrat would need to win is the entire NE, the Pacific states sans Alaska, Florida, Ohio, Indiana and a few others - less than half the states. Such is already possible now, but Hillary got fucked in the lake states.

The EC will basically go back to a formality. We're looking at estimates of 500,000,000 Americans by 2050 or 2100 or even a billion by 2100; most in the coastal cities. RIP flyovers.

>but Hillary got fucked in the lake states.
Trump was and is certainly disliked by plenty of people with good reason, but Hillary was outright hated and distrusted because she would say and do whatever was politically expedient and deserved to lose.

>wossname who decided to go become Khan of Mongolia
Von Ungern never wanted to be the Khan of Mongolia; in fact, he restored the actual Khan to his rights after kicking the Chinese out of the country, for which he's still considered a national hero in Mongolia.

He did, however, think he was the avatar of the Buddhist god of war.

Neo-Assyria
Moche
Hittites
Song Dynasty

What the hell does Pangea have to do with ancient cultures?

Napoleon era France
Early Sumerians
Pre-Cortez Mexico/Aztecs
North-Western Native American tribes
Bronze Age China AND Japan
Pre-Mughal India AND Tibet/Nepal
17th Century Polish-Lithuania AND Hungary
18th Century Scandinavia AND Baltics
Any and all Pacific Islands cultures