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What prompts did you use for those pictures?

There are a couple of products available in DriveThruRPG that deal with the Bronze Age, but you'll need to convert them to HERO: 

Into the Bronze (OSR): https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/318919/Into-the-Bronze--OSR-Bronze-Age-Sword-and-Sorcery

Mythic Babylon (Runequest): https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/355333/Mythic-Babylon

Glorantha, Runequest's default setting, is also has a late Bronze Age or early Iron Age level of culture and technology.

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The Robin Hood book is one of my main resources. Low fantasy makes for a great change of pace.

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"The horse is the original all-terrain vehicle."

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Thanks for all the support guys. My uncle is doing better although he's still in the hospital. It was his heart that was the problem. He is expected to recover.

It was his birthday when this happened.

On another note, do folks choose some piece of music to represent the general feel of their campaigns? I don't do it for all my games, but I consider the theme from 1492: Conquest of Paradise by Vangelis to evoke the mood I want for my latest homebrew campaign.

Something I may try in my solo games is running a silly campaign. I've tried to run a few humorous games with other folks in the past, and they were never received well. But if I'm playing on my own, I can go to town with the silliness, and no one would be the wiser.

Something seemed to be ailing Djokovic during the whole tournament. Even when he was winning handily he seemed to be in some kind of discomfort. I guess it all caught up to him in the semifinal.

I am not a fan of of the art after WOTC took over D&D. It just didn't look right to me. And yes, the armor is so detailed, it had me wondering if the artists had a buckle fetish.

The PCs are most likely not the only adventurers in the game world. Maybe there's party they consider their rivals. What would they be up to? A friend from Discord has a few ideas.

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15 minutes ago, Ragitsu said:

 

That falchion is a machete with a superiority complex.

My uncle in Toronto is in the hospital for pneumonia. It's pretty bad.

Hooray! I've just been excused from jury duty.

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1 hour ago, Steve said:

When discussing medieval settings, how much magic is preferable?
 

A Swords & Sorcery level would seem to work easiest as far as impact on a historical setting, focused on humans as the only race. But once you start scaling up from there, history would start getting strange.

 

Imagine the city-states of 10th century Italy ruled by ageless, Elven lords who have been in charge for centuries. The occasional half-elf comes into being due to their decadence and trysts with humans in attempts to stave off their ennui.

 

Or if the Mongol Hordes had a wizard at the Khan’s side acting as mobile artillery when it came to dealing with walled cities.

 

Or the inquisitors from the Catholic Church possessed actual clerical magic and were hunting down demon-possessed humans, witches and vampires.

 

 

Something I'm playing with in historical and other low-magic settings is keep clerical magic but get rid of wizards.  At least one TSR campaign book, Charlemagne's Paladins, offers this as an option. I tried this option in my solo Middle-earth campaign. I renamed the clerics "healers" and treated their turn undead and spells as skills rather than than actual magic. It's still a work in progress.

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