TROS in the real world

[Balbinus]

Cool as I understand the setting is, I have a great love of real-world settings.  Has anyone tried adapting TROS to historical Europe?

How hard would it be?

[Mike Holmes]

Remarkably simple, I'd think, given that Wyerth is just a close parallel anyhow. Piece of cake.

Mike

[Ace]

Pretty easy I would say. Drop the magic rules, tweak the equipment list and you are done.

[Lyrax]

You'd also have to figure out which Weyrth country goes to which europe country.  That is, of course, remarkably simple.

[Sneaky Git]

You'd also have to figure out which Weyrth country goes to which europe country.  That is, of course, remarkably simple.

Jake posted something about this earlier.. ah.  Here it is.

I'd reccomend the late 1500's for earth. The rapier existed, but the longsword and greatsword were still on the battlefield, along with heavy armors--in fact, armor was it's most comprehensive in the day of the early rapier. The rapier was in the streets, the Cut & Thrust on the streets and on the battlefield, and the longsword was on the battlefield and in the judicial duel. Like that.

As for what country is what on earth? Hmm...

(Note: many of these are more inspiration than mirror images)

Savaxen=Scandanvia/the Norse
Stahl=Germany
Oustenreich=Austria/Switzerland/the Black Forest
Picti=Scotland in the year 400
Angharad=Wales/Ireland in in the early 1100s
Gelure=France, but not really.
Xanaria=Italy of the 1300s combined with Rome of about 400
Cyrinthmeir=RennFaire land
Magyarfold=Hungary
Sarmatov=Poland
Rzeczpospolita=Generic Slavic meets Lithuania
Zhibara=Siberian Russia with early Peter the Great influences, sort of.
Zaporozhya=Southeastern Ukraine around 1500 or so, with parts from 1600's
Krym-Kanaan=Crimea, with some Mongolian in the southeast
Otamarluk=Turkey it its heyday
Helena=Greece, but more classical than medieval by far
Dardanet=Albania
Tez'Hamun=Stargate Egypt
Svarastra=India
Savari=Africa (sort of)
Kudara-Shiragi (undescribed in book)=Korea, Vietnam, etc.
Vhedij=China, really sort of
Tengoku=Kurosawa Japan (sort of)

All the rest are either completely made up (Fahal, Odeon, Numeria) or are drawn from multiple sources, or are composites that make sense given Weyrth political geography.

Hope that helps.

Jake

[Lance D. Allen]

Didn't Ron liken Odeon to Stygia from the Conan novels in that same thread?

[Ron Edwards]

Hi Lance,

Imjia seems like Howard's Stygia to me - not Odeon.

Back to the thread topic in general, playing TROS in historical Europe seems like the easiest thing in the world to me. Most of the source material 'ports over for all the reasons mentioned already.

Best,
Ron