How would you feel about a fantasy setting whose visual motifs for armor, fashion, and so on were drawn from across the 13th to 16th century? Specifically European, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean/North African period accurate visuals. Nothing from outside of those periods, their engineering and their tech levels is used in the setting’s motifs.
i.e.; no 1st century Romans or 7th century Vikings running around, no 400 BCE Greeks and Persians with empires butting right up next to Hundred Years War France, nor 2000+ BCE Egyptians across the pond who haven’t changed at all despite the span of millennia passing them by. A large time window for visuals but its inspiration still consistent across roughly 2-3 centuries of our history, with some minor fantasy embellishments thrown in because who doesn't love stuff like magic capes and dragonscale armor?
Time Period Inspired Fantasy
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What is wrong with Roman Orcs and Cossack Elves?
Not a fan, prefer a set time period and mostly humans.
How dull.
So... Warhammer, then?
Warhammer had some ridiculous leaps in periods, even within the Empire, and was surrounded by HUGE PAULDRON BAD LARGE Warcraft villains.
Maybe not the best example.
>Maybe not the best example.
So... The Artesia comic series then?
The whatnow?
I don't like it since the fashion and image selection is very limited if everyone conform to that time period and region cultures.
Much better for me is to set the setting in modern or space fantasy and have all culture fashion and armor become possible along with modern fashion which allow more fun and far more vary character design.
There is nothing stopping you to roleplay a black guy wearing Roman Legionnaire armor and weapons to fight against monsters in such setting.
Or a white girl in chinese dress beating the living shit out of evil spirits in downtown Tokyo.