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Make sure you remember Egypt was a centrally planned proto-communist shithole. If you want Conan style adventure and the philosophy that comes with it the fantasy Egyptians should be the antagonists.
Source: 1177BCE: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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GURPS Egypt, of course.
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>>98106549
Hmmm, but what if I combined GURPS Egypt with GURPS Transhuman Space...
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>>98106503
There is always Amonket or, if you're looking for inspiration there is the old Sand Storm splat book from 3.5 there is neat stuff in there to pull for your !Egypt setting.
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More than one time when alone as a kid I carefully paused the VHS at the exact time when the hot virgin sorceress rolled over sitting on Mathayus. There was a hint of pussy or underwear in that upksirt, but sadly the resolution didn't reveal much, kek.
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Anyone know if they had martial arts by chance?
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>>98107040
Possibly not in the Asian themes stereotype traditionally associated with martial arts, but they probably had some early forms of various Greco-Roman wrestling that could have spread to Egypt, not to mention the obvious war training of soldiers.
Some imported more Asian themed fighting style brought by a far traveler would not be entirely implausible, though, if only considerably unlikely due to the extreme distances (i.e. more than one year travel time).
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>>98106503
not egypt, but this might be interesting or useful given the period and region
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>>98106503
As long as you keep to the motif that Egyptian fantasy adventures should be about fate and the cyclical nature of myth and history - "what has happened before must happen again" and all that good stuff.
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Also, beastfolk are almost non-negotiable.
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>>98106514
Aegypt is Etaerneal
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>>98106503
you can find a good number of resources on egyptian history on archive.org
>I'm an egyptiaboo, my copy of How To Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs comes from when I was a teen and has been used extensively, but that's a language aid not a culture/religion/history book
there is a palladium egypt (new kingdom, 1400s BC) game called Valley of the Pharaohs. I've not read it, but given the era when it came out, it's probably mechanically kinda jank but may have good resources for comparative stats
I am loathe to ever recommend playing gurps, but the supplements tend to have good sourcing for info
nWoD Mummy is expressly not about actual egyptian mummies, and instead invents a pre-egyptian civilisation that created superhuman deathless reincarnating megamummies, buried them, then died out.
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>>98109100
Thats exactly what I was talking about. I even cited my source (Eric Cline's book) but there are a lot of people who think Im a "no fun allowed" troll because I take verisimilitude seriously in a fantasy game.
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Egypts a great setting. I got a world I need to get back to expanding on where the main continent is a giant desert thats a mixture of Egypt and Arabia. Theres other parts of the world I never elaborated on mostly cause I focused on the desert seeing as thats where I planned on putting a larger campaign.
Ran a one shot where a party enters a Tomb to get some riches, plenty of trap rooms, undead creatures and a giant scorpion divine beast. It was fun
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>>98106503
>I want Conan style adventures in an Egypt type setting
>mfw they don't realize Conan 2d20 exists and Stygia is a major player in the setting
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>>98109123
Thanks for clarifying, but I don't see how that conflicts with my post in any way.
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>>98107671
It is a thread.
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>>98106503
The only true option for a fun Egyptiansci fisetting.
>jaffa, kree!
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>>98106714
>the exact time when the hot virgin sorceress rolled ove
Hu?
>>98109123
In Egypt's defense, everyone was doing that shit across the Eastern Med.
>>98107777
Checked. Also the whole ancient ancients vibe. Eg the oft mentioned fact of Cleopatra living closer to the today than the building of Giza, or for a different example Xenophon admiring the ruins of Assyria and wondering who built them. Always fun to have an ancient civilisation (not necessarily ayy lmaos) in a game that set in Not!antiquity.
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The Egyptian (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gXuSXaOKhQ
Asterix and Cleopatra (1968)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa51bas
The Eloquent Peasant (1970)
https://m.ok.ru/video/7146353134110
Pharaoh (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4XG0JRMNZA
The Oracle of Delphi (Short 1903)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69QsftxFIu4
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https://archive.org/details/lifeinancientegy00ermaiala/page/n5/mode/2u p
https://archive.org/details/kybalionstudyofh00thre/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/the-egyptian-book-of-the-dead_202012
https://archive.org/details/catofbubastestal00hentiala
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Check out ÆGYPT - Playground Of The Gods supplement for Zenobia (at bottom of the page). Zenobia itself is a free sword & sandals game set in a more fantastical version of Rome's Crisis of the Third Century. It also has a commercial version with a bit more stuff on DrivethruRPG.
https://www.zozergames.com/zenobia.html
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>>98109135
Stygia is really only aesthetically Egyptian, the society is its own thing for REH to justify Snake Wizards.
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>>98106503
Here ou have a few Egypt settings. I like historical games, so I have a few of them.
As a system, the Servants of Gaius uses the Bedrock Games engine, the corebook has Rome as a engine (Egypt is an expansion) and it's simple and very solid.
gf /d/0xb830
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>>98107040
If you wanna play a pulp martial arts version of Egypt, that's easy to do. Get the same I recommended in the previous comment, Servants of Gaius and the Egypt expansion. Then get Wandering Heroes of the Ogre Gate, which is probably the most popular wuxia game. They use the same engine and are compatible between them, so it's damn easy to hack.
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>>98107777
>”what has happened before must happen again”
Not them, but I didn’t realize that Egyptians were so focused on that kind of thing, thought that fate/destiny stuff like that was more Greek or Norse.
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There’s cats, jackals, crocodiles, hippos, and scorpions of course, but what other kinds of beastfolk fit a fantasy setting based on ancient Egypt then? Also, “almost” non-negotiable?
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>>98117127
Falcons, ibises, vultures, lions, cows, snakes, baboons, dogs (Greek crossover there too), frogs, sheep, the "set animal". If you're gonna do beastfolk as servitors of an associated animal-headed god, which seems like an obvious fantasy step to take, there's a lot.
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>>98117127
>fate/destiny stuff like that was more Greek or Norse
Those pantheons focus on different things. I'm taking this information from the the Genesys writeup on the "Age of Myth" setting type, which focuses on mythology-based adventures, essentially pre-Tolkien fantasy, real sword-and-sandal stuff.
The Norse perspective on fate focuses on its inevitability - characters know that Ragnarok (armageddon) is coming, that the gods will die, that Yggdrasil the world tree will burn, and that a few humans will survive and restart the world from there. Knowing all this, Norse characters emphasize facing fate with bravery, not hiding from it out of cowardice. A Norse-themed game should then focus on embracing fate and facing challenges head-on.
Greek myth examination tends to focus on the nature of the gods and their domains, how Greek heroes are exemplars of heroic ideals but also hounded by tragedy - real tragedy, a self-failing that leads to downfall. Greek stories were about teaching listeners to be humble, lest they be laid low by their own hubris, torn asuder by the gods for their defiance, or humiliated in the face of greater forces in the world.
Compared to those, Egyptian myths or myth-inspired adventures emphasize the cyclical nature of fate. There is a constant struggle between order and chaos, and in order to preserve creation, those of the present must follow the legends of the past and the trials they chart out. Just as the Nile River ebbs and flows in a very reliable pattern, so too must the events of history. The cycle must continue, or the realm will be consumed by the sands of chaos.
tl;dr- Norse myth emphasize the inevitability of fate and the importance of facing it head-on. The Greek myth make a big deal about living well and accepting your place in the world, lest you risk the wrath of the gods or your own self-made downfall. Egyptian myth emphasized the idea of the myth circle and how it must be honored, lest creation be lost to chaos.
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You don't have to go full wargods and have the setting be different flavors ot beastman clobbering each other for funsies as your immortal from highlander does the quickening.
You can just do the Mesoamerican thing of animal-themed armor that's already been posted.
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Or animal themed relics/armaments. For example, this is how SMITE portrays Serqet, Egyptian goddess of scorpions.
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What are some interesting facts about Cleopatra? That is supposed to be her, right? For instance, while her family officially tended to marry siblings and act as co-rulers, there’s apparently some evidence that the palace servants may have actually fathered many of the children of the Ptolemy line. Or that she once reportedly dissolved and drank a giant pearl as part of a bet with Marc Antony?
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>dogs
what types of Dogs
I know there is a breed called Pharouh Dogs, but there apprantly from Malta rather than Egypt itself
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No?
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>>98116188
So, uh, being naked?
>>98117127
You'd easily ask for what animals were NOT there. Perhaps insects and the like.
(nitpick: as I remember that, no actual "animalfolk" in Egypt. I mean, no this like werewolves or whatever. Just the gods)
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Her supposed life portrati is lost but theoretically real. https://mikedashhistory.com/ask-mike/ entry 33
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According to The Contendings of Horus and Seth, Set is depicted as trying to prove his dominance by seducing Horus and then having sexual intercourse with him. However, Horus places his hand between his thighs and catches Set's semen, then subsequently throws it in the river so that he may not be said to have been inseminated by Set. Horus (or Isis herself in some versions) then deliberately spreads his semen on some lettuce, which was Set's favourite food. After Set had eaten the lettuce, they went to the gods to try to settle the argument over the rule of Egypt. The gods first listened to Set's claim of dominance over Horus, and call his semen forth, but it answered from the river, invalidating his claim. Then, the gods listened to Horus's claim of having dominated Set, and call his semen forth, and it answered from inside Set.
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>>98106503
Deserts feel like they should be good for adventure but kind of suck for it honestly. Also egypt designs look based, but you quickly realize that it's an extremely narrow aesthetic that you can't deviate from or it stops feeling like egypt. Running it as a one and done thing and then you're out it's good, but not for an entire campaign. Get to the city, look at the hot babes, walk the desert, do the pyramid dungeon, then you've exhausted the setting.
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https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208074
The Commandment Trilogy, by Derek Bickerton
Men of Bronze, by Scott Oden
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/up.aspx
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https://archive.org/details/morning-star-by-h.-rider-haggard
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/n.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTLHoPufK94
Egypt in Spectacular Cross-section, by Stephen Biesty
Pyramid, by David Macaulay
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A setting consisting solely of desert is as strange as one which is populated by a singular woodland. Even your stereotypical medieval european adventure has grasslands, mountains, and swamps.
The problem here is that your average players are unfamiliar with the variety of arid/hot climates. There are dunes, canyons, wooded mountains, oases, scrubland, savannah, fertile river valleys, reed marshes, etc. There is an abundance of environments to draw from.
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>"set animal"
No idea what the fuck this thing is but I bet it wasreally hot.
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To prevent this thread from descending into pure christcuckery i am reiterating the earlier point that ancient egypt was a shithole to live in. You owe your entire harvest to the central government and they would apportion out rations to you after collecting it after the fact.
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All post-Christ civilizations are horny as fuck too, just way too repressed
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That's not how that works. For most of human history most of us died in childhood, but if you could make it to 10 or so you had a good shot at making it to 80.
But this early mortality really skews the average and is a great example of how you can lie through statistics.
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>>98126277
Yeah, well, not SO good, but you're right. People didn't think the "natural" age of man was around 70 in the middle ages for nothing - you still were waaaaay easier to die after infancy (hard killers: giving birth and war) but.
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Ancient Worlds: Atisi is a 282-page setting book for a fantasy world inspired by ancient Egypt. It uses Dungeon World as a system, though I imagine it would not be difficult to adapt it to a Dungeon World hack like Homebrew World or Unlimited Dungeons.
Akhamet is a dedicated Egyptian setting for D&D 5e.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?keyword=akhamet
Mummy: The Curse 2e is a modern, urban fantasy game heavily themed around, well, mummies.
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>>98126277
No dude, are you fucking retarded? I specifically said the post-birth life expectancy in my actual fucking post to distinguish it from le meme medieval life expectancy post where you're like "nahh if they were OK through childhood they were alright".
They were legitimately, on average, dying at 30 in Egypt. The average, post-birth, out-of-childhood life expectancy for men and women was 30-35. Fuck you. I hope you fucking die for being a smug cunt in the exact fucking way I pre-highlighted in my post just to try and avoid it.
>"great example of how you can lie through statistics"
>every single era of history is the one reddit post I read about life expectancy in the middle ages
Fucking kill yourself you dumb coomer fuck.
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Thebes-West necropolis anthropological analysis found the majority of the dead among almost 200 corpses died as young adults with men falling more in a 30-40 range and women in a 20-30 range, possibly because of the risks of childbirth. Only about 10% of the bodies found in the entire tomb complex were estimated aged more than 60. You can look up the paper if you like, it's Andreas Georg Nerlich.
What is your backing for your disagreement? Other than a post you read on reddit about the middle ages and have repeated verbatim ever since.
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So absolutely nothing, you just want to disagree so as not to feel you're wrong.
The logical extension of this "argument" you're trying to put forth would be that the workers in greater hardship somehow ended up living longer lives than the privileged nobles, in contradiction to essentially all of recorded human history. Or if you want to complain about cherry-picked data, you can show me your better data.
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No, you're just retarded and think one place for special dead can be extrapolated to the whole country.
>hey guys based on this wartime hospital most men died before 30 that means most Americans died by 30
Think, please.
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>>98127245
>if you want to complain about cherry-picked data, you can show me your better data
Again, what distinguishes the tomb complex is largely being a place where wealthier and more privileged individuals with better quality of life were buried. If you want to argue it's not representative, that's fine, but logically the everyday cunt's life expectancy would be LOWER not higher.
You're saying this is not representative, but you have no more representative data to contradict it. This is a place where people were buried for hundreds of years. Why wouldn't it represent, in some aspect, common ages of death? You've still put up absolutely fuck all to argue against the modal death of ancient Egyptians occurring between 20-40.
tl;dr - Egyptian niggas did in fact die at 30
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>>98106524
>proto-communist
command economies (which you can argue the bronze age palace economies were) are not the same thing as communism you fucking retard
anyway I want to FUCK egyptian women so bad. eastern med women are literal perfection
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>No because they actually had sex and accomplished things.
Also, see through shirts sound super horny but if it was normal it was normal. The way Americans dress would look like hookers in some cultures but it's normal so it's normal. Attractive women are still attractive but I could see somebody getting desensitized to it.
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>after being btfo I am reiterating the absolutely idiotic likening of palace economies to communism I spouted earlier
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Much pyramids, many mummies.
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If only we could be as free of political brainrot as the millennials.
lol
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Weren't ancient Egyptians for the majority of their history also about 5'2 on average?
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>supposed to be her, right?
Probably not. People don't get too historically accurate over Cleopatra, but the cosplay outfit looks to be more inspired by a goddess.
This is an artistic and horny interpretation of Cleopatra, but based upon actual sources. She had a nose that was caricatured on coins (so maybe not too big) and she was supposed to be pale (for Greco-Egyptians and Romans) and red haired (again, according to Greeks and Romans which I suspect was referring to a kind of darker-red, auburn that would be more likely in mediterranean people).
Romans also said her clothes were translucent and her tits were out, as was the style at the time in Egypt.
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I often think about these two. He was banging her since she was an undergraduate, 18 or 19, and he basically sugar baby'd her into faculty by having her under his supervision all the way through her doctoral work into overseeing her hiring in a department of like 6 people. Then his wife found out and divorced him, they both got fired (although he got rehired later) and they spend all their time now being "egyptologists" as if they were in the Carter era and essentially play-acting 1920s society people. Like their entire lives are an extended LARP.
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Yeah, no shit. Cleopatra is one of history's greatest feminine icons.
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What are some underappreciated Egyptian monsters? It seems like all everyone ever really talks about are Sphinxes, what about Ammit, just to start?
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Not that anon, but he might be thinking of The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson. Wilkinson doesn't ever use the word communist iirc, but he does compare the "pharaonic system" as he terms it to totalitarian regimes such as the government of modern North Korea. The comparison was however more focused on the personality cult of the Kims and similar dictators, and how such regimes often use their extensive control over their nation's economy for the aggrandizement of the ruler, than on their ostensible ideologies.
Either that or anon was just using the American vernacular meaning of "communist" as a synonym for any closed society with a centrally managed economy.
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>>98137773
>American vernacular meaning of "communist" as a synonym for any closed society with a centrally managed economy
By that 'loggic' almost all palace economies of the Bronze Age would be 'communist'.
Some of them didn't even use money! Tehy bartered! Oh no the horror!
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Not that is an old callback.
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>>98106503
NEEDS MORE DWARVES
NEEDS MORE BEER
NEEDS THE PYRAMIDS TO BE HOMEMADE MOUNTAINS THEY MADE
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anyone have references for ancient egyptian outfits?
actual ones not porn ones
>inb4 what time period
any prior to hellenistic egypt, since im looking for more of a pastiche of ancient egypt and not a specific time period
as long as they look good next to each other
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