If you were building a setting based on Greek mythology, what are your 'must haves' and what are your more obscure additions? We know the classic hits like the minotaur and the city-states of Athens, but is there stranger things you'd like to see brought out in these settings?
It feels like, for all its ubiquitous in our culture, Greek myth isn't seen as much on the tabletop.
>what are your 'must haves'
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Not!Zeus turning into animals and fucking randos.
Not!Hera fucking over rando women out of spite and jealousy despite those women having nothing to do with Not!Zeus.
Not!Hades being a pretty chill bro when compared to the other gods.
Not!Aphrodite being a total slut.
Not!Apollo's kid taking the Sun on a joy ride.
Not!Athena occasionally turning women into monster girls.
Not!Artemis being a total prude but secretly a romantic.
The gods generally dicking around and interfering in mortal life almost daily.
Anything I'm missing?
Hades having the worst rap for being the god of the underworld, but also being the only major god who does his fucking job and not get involved in petty bullshit.
I feel like not!Greece settings get too caught up on the gods and not enough on the weird creatures that inhabit it.
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Weird, I'd assume that Not!Greece settings would get too caught up on all the monster girls, but then again I've been on Veeky Forums long enough to take that as the default assumption.
So...monster girls?
Cyprus is a cool place to add, it was the major source of copper for the bronze age, also cult of aphrodite etc.
the pontic colonies along with the Magna greacia colonies in italy are interesting, syracuse is an interesting city to copy
Macedonia, thrace, sparta, the oracle, minoa (crete) rhodes (with the colosus) and occasional egyptian contact.
Basically all the 'weird creatures' are the result of the gods, too. In fact, I think ALL of them were either created by, were servants of, or WERE gods themselves in some degree. The gods made a lot of monsters because they're dickheads.