Hey /tg/ How come there are so few norse themed settings? And

Vikings are gay

>>50946024
Vikingar but by Terry Pratchett

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>>50946059
Rude desu

The norse peoples being known as "the vikings" is kinda weird anyway. It was a job/a thing you did for money, not their cultural or ethnic identity.

>>50946024
Well, there's MYVARGSHILL, but all signs seem to point to it being a poorly designed game made specifically for promoting the creator's social beliefs.

>>50946110
>MYVARGSHILL
>the creator's social beliefs.
What

Does this have something to do with Varg Vikernes or what?

>>50946024
Because they're not what people think they are.

Why would you want to play a setting based around 'homeland shenanigans'?

>>50946121
Because the constantly back and forths between the clans of old scandinavia make for good fun whether people know it or not. It's pretty niche; that's why I asked about it.

>>50946137
I should add that I'm not necessarily looking for something specifically aimed at the old norse, but rather systems that could accommodate that kind of setting.

>>50946024
Proper versions of any setting are pretty rare. Show a medievalist the "standard fantasy setting" and watch them cry.

There being very few norse-themed settings that actually try to grapple the source material in a sensible and informed fashion is simply a product of there being so few settings of any stripe that go beyond the shallow pop-culture version.

>>50946161
A setting purely based on fact, or a Norse-themed fantasy server with as much realism as possible?

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>>50946301
Either is fine. Aslong as they actually respect the source material instead of doing an interpretation based on pop culture like >>50946224 said.

I know of a swedish PnP game called Trudvang that's extensively based on norse mythology and early christianity, having their versions of elves and dwarves based on the norse myths rather than the Tolkien modifications. It's far from viking wankery too I heard.

But again; it's exclusively swedish.

>>50946119
Yeah, he spams his game on /tg/ about once or twice each week:

http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/text/myfarog/type/op/

Unfortunately, since he refuses to post a scan, all we can do is reference the few leaked pages (which don't present a very compelling case for the system being any good).

>>50946387
That seems pretty terrible.

>thule

Aaand I'm out.

>>50946387
Varg is a fa/tg/uy?

>>50946059
And a realistic nordic setting would be even more gay.

>>50946409
Probably not. This is just a convenient place for RPG marketers to shill.

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>>50946024
Hellfrost might fit the bill of what you are looking for.

It's an extremely Norse inspired setting set in a world being slowly consumed by what is essentially the Fimbulvetr. The human cultures are a nice variety which range from Norse/Anglo-Saxon analogues, to Kievan Rus and in the far south where it's still warm, there's a Magocracy with a decidedly Italian flavor.

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>>50946580
>in B4 "Picture for Ants" hardy fucking har.
I saved the thumbnail by mistake. Here's the full rez pic.

>>50946409
>>50946535
It's not like he has much of a band. Or, really, that bare-bones black metal has much money in it these days.
Who'll work with a man convicted of murdering his bandmates?

>>50946353
Trudvang Chronicles got successfully Kickstarted earlier this year, so Trudvang won't be exclusively Swedish for long.

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>>50946387
Stop asking for scans

>>50946024
Try Yggdrasil.

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>>50947316
Fucking nice.

>>50948906

This,

Yggdrasill is pretty good. It's kinda like Pendragon : a historical setting with mythical and surnatural elements like trolls, etc.


https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/15/15774.phtml