Let’s post pics of low-fantasy settlements, everything from shitty hovels to hamlets and small towns.
I'm gonna be running a game of Aquelarre, set in a low fantasy version of the Iberian Peninsula circa 14th century, and I need some art to show to the party to represent locations. I’ve been trawling Google/Deviantart/Pinterest looking for pictures of villages and towns (Party are going to be itinerant monster-hunters, so I don’t expect much happening in cities), but 90% of it is either too fantastical or minecraft screenshots…
I’m going to post some of the better stuff I’ve got.
Aaron Hernandez
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Christian Walker
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Nathan Morgan
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Logan White
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Jaxson Edwards
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Tyler Fisher
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Juan Sanders
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Luis Allen
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Kevin Harris
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Jack Gonzalez
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Nathan Hall
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Dominic Bailey
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Elijah Rodriguez
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Easton Harris
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Asher Johnson
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Colton Allen
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Jason Wright
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Brody Williams
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Jonathan Howard
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Dominic Scott
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Mason Gutierrez
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Nolan Roberts
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Jacob Evans
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James Ortiz
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Isaiah Fisher
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Colton Cruz
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Eli Hill
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Benjamin Rodriguez
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Eli Smith
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Aiden Walker
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Joshua Jones
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Gavin Cook
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Easton Foster
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Angel Powell
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Mason Allen
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Oliver Rogers
Would this be considered High or Early Medieval?
Also witnessed.
Grayson Ward
Def high medieval
Josiah Robinson
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Aiden Murphy
"High" or late. Or indeed not actually medieval at all. Early medieval architecture looked VERY different. This honestly could be anywhere between 16th and 19th century.
Julian Campbell
>castle/church on the hill why does that just feel so damn right
Justin Perry
goddamn, I might need to run a quest based on this
Jackson Wright
Y'all muthafuckas need Bruegel
Matthew Evans
Yeah, the boy looks fairly early modern to me.
Christian Cox
this one has pagodas
Adrian Nelson
>minecraft screenshots Pffftt.
Benjamin White
I can't even begin to imagine what any of these proverbs are.
Leo Phillips
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Anthony Baker
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Joshua Barnes
Armed To The Teeth and Bury The Hatchet are in the lower corners.
Christopher Edwards
Dutch here. I can also recognize "falling through the basket" (being figured out for the fraud you are), "feeling the tooth" (suspiciously interrogating someone) and "departing with the northern sun" (leaving quietly and/or in the dead of night. Because the sun always shines from the south, geddit?).
Wyatt Garcia
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Nolan Mitchell
apologies for filenames its for a town i'm building on
Ian Bailey
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Lucas Ross
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Robert Watson
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Ayden Rodriguez
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Colton Stewart
Sorry to derail, but I’ve a question: whats a “simple” (for the players mostly, I don’t care if it’s heavy on the DM side) system to run a low fantasy campaign?
I’ve read a lot of recommendations for warhammer 2e and GURPS, but the first has the setting of the license as a core principle and the second is far from simple.
Dominic Rivera
Barbarians of Lemuria is very simple and low crunch and will definitely work for quick and painless swords & sorcery.
Torchbearer if you don't mind abstraction and want to do something akin to darkest dungeon.
Crypts & Things also works, very modified version of Swords & Wizardry, with focus on Low Fantasy/Sword & Sorcery.
I've heard good things about Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, but I've never tried it. It's designed to run Conan stuff, and should be pretty rules light too.
Harnmaster. If you don't mind some complexity, but want to get a really well developed classless system for grim, very low fantasy.
Stormbringer. If you don't mind some complexity and want the most deadly combat full of maimings, where the world is going to end soon anyway.
Age of Arthur is based on the fate system, and I've heard pretty decent things about it. Worth checking out if you're into the history and mythology of the British isles.
Gavin Russell
Wow, lots of things to checkout. Thanks a lot user!
