Thinking of setting a new ‘swords and sorcery’ campaign for David and Adrian in the World of Xoth.<\/p>\n
I like to visualise my campaign worlds to help create atmosphere, and in this case, like most S&S campaign worlds, the nations have fairly clear historical analogues (which I used to think was lazy, but I now realise is really useful to help players relate to the campaign world if they don’t have time to immerse themselves in the background).<\/p>\n
In this case, I might get half a dozen 25mm wargaming figures for each nation and paint them up, to give a view of what the average soldier is wearing and to use as guardsmen and city watch.<\/p>\n
So the nations in the World of Xoth, and their analogues (for me) are:<\/p>\n
Mazania – black amazons – find some nude amazon warriors<\/p>\n
Azimba –<\/p>\n
Shoma –<\/p>\n
Ikuna – zulus (Wargames Factory do some plastic zulus)<\/p>\n
Zadj – Persia – sassanid persians – always wanted to paint a few<\/span> of them.<\/p>\n Yar-Ammon – egyptians<\/p>\n Jairan – Arabs<\/p>\n Khazistan – turkish ghilmen<\/p>\n Susrah – Seleucids?<\/p>\n Taraam – Assyrians?<\/p>\n Nabastis – Myceneans or classical greeks<\/p>\n Lamu – pale men in long robes? Slavs?<\/p>\n Sea Reavers – arab pirates\/Sinbad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thinking of setting a new ‘swords and sorcery’ campaign for David and Adrian in the World of Xoth. I like to visualise my campaign worlds to help create atmosphere, and in this case, like most S&S campaign worlds, the nations have fairly clear historical analogues (which I used to think was lazy, but I now … Continue reading “World of Xoth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}