Introduction

Project Displacement

RPG world setting concept - draft summer 2018.

Introduction

Many times it is a struggle to create a setting that is fresh. We tend to see remodeled examples of historic real world civilizations. The “Empire” is Rome in slightly altered clothing. The more you know about history and culture the harder it is to get away from this tendency. This project intends to embrace cultural appropriation. We will be transplanting bits of real historic civilizations to a fictional world. The game will be about their interaction.

As a light RPG we may use stereotypes of various cultures; Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Arabian, Celtic, Chines, Japanese, Medieval European, Viking, Aztec, etc. or we may make a more serious game of it by having well researched bits of historic nations transplanted. We may use a fictional town with a random map, or a real one with as good a period map as we can find. Nothing prevents us from pursuing both paths.