What are some interesting directions to take a Not!Egypt setting?

>>55385289
Make Dwarves the dominant species. Have them been cast out of their original Mountain homeland and forced into exodus to the desert.

Pyramids are a form of reverence for their lost land (a mimi artificial mountains) and go hardcore into ancestor worship.

>>55385289
The Pharaohs are actually demigods, with all the implications that has

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tomb robbing goes as well as expected
mummified nile crocodyles moving too much
not!greeks invade
not!greeks need to consult a priest, see something they shouldn't see along the way and get themselves involved with a far messier aristocracy than the account of a theocratic monarchy would have them believe
not!jews need to gtfo, supernatural shenanigans ensue
not!stargate in which sufficiently advanced alien gods return to reclaim their shit
anachronistic future with laser khopeshes and the king giving speeches to the people on holographic screens
not!nubians claim the throne

>>55385508
>not!nubians claim the throne
I guess that makes them kings

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>>55385588
Not if WE can do something about it.

>>55385289
In order to add depth, have the campaign centered on the not!Egypt culture, with neighboring cultures inspired by Mesoamerica and Cambodia. Pyramids and divine rulers for everyone.

>>55385690
That's pretty cool

>>55385690
So...
PYRAMID WARS NOW!
Everyone's competing to make the coolest stone mega structure and having land and culture conflict stuff. Seems cool

>>55385690
>>55385806
The largest, central pyramid of each culture houses the mummied body of the god whose descendants now rule the people. Each one has their own religious rituals associated with tending to the body, preserving it, and preparing it for a prophesied future resurrection.

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>>55385289

>>55385289

I think the Duat is a pretty cool place eh, has really crazy sheaningans and doesn't afraid of anything

Fun fact: the land of the dead was felt as relatively approachable by living humans.

Sandpunk as human slaves and other low status men in an Anubis monstergirl-ran city

>>55385289
>Anubis grils
Why does no one ever acknowledge Anput, Jackel Goddess of Mummification and mother to Ammit, the Devourer?

>>55386432
Because Bastet is bestet.
Anubis is fine too.

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I have nothing to contribute to the discussion so I will contribute some art.

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>>55386451

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>>55386474

>>55385289
Do you want exploring the ruins of egypt or alive egypt?

>>55386488
Is the waist shield to protect the dong?

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>>55386488

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>>55386502
Do you... not wear armor specifically to protect your Johnson from enemy attacks?

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>>55386528

>>55385289
Could do things that when sun (Ra) goes down the landscape errupts with hella dangerous monsters

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>>55386538
Like Minecraft?

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>>55386528
Real-life modern soldiers wear it as well.

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>>55386554
>thiccfags

>>55386538
>when sun (Ra) goes down
Deicide should not come up until much later into the campaign.

>>55386575
too thick

t. shamus o'hennessey

>>55386537
>disguisingyourshittypaintingskillswithblur.jpg

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>>55386575

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>>55386628

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>>55386642
Chloroform, probably

>>55386645

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>>55386681

>>55386681
That's nowhere near egypt.

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>>55386677
Shit, Takatsu is the fucking best.

>>55386696

>>55386645
>That feeling when you realise you hat is a penguin

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Nothing personnel pagan-chan

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>>55386723

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>>55386721
Doesn't matter, had delicious brown girls.

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>>55386574
I pick both

>>55386749
It does matter, since this is a thread about egypt and traditional games.

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>>55386762

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>>55386749
You seem to have misunderstood the purpose of the thread.

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>>55386802

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>>55385289
I got distracted, and while its offtopic, I gotta ask here because /v/ is useless.

What are some games which include a wide array of mythologies? I'd ask /v/, but, well, /v/ hasn't been worth visiting in at least 5 years, probably more.

I've only known one which did it well (Dark Age of Camelot), and it included elements from Nordic, Russian, Irish, British, Egyptian and Greek mythology. Tomtenissars, Anubis, Fae, Sylvans, Ammit, Sphinxes, Nereids, Centaurs, Genies/Djinn, Harpies, etc, along with landscapes from every type of climate, Egyptian deserts, Atlantis (sunken cities/temples), Niflheim, Hibernia, etc.

I just wanted to reminisce. And find another game which includes elements from a lot of mythologies.

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>>55386925

>>55386909
Age of Mythologies. It's a strategy game from the gang that brought us Age of Empires. You can play Greeks, Egyptians, Norse, Atlanteans, and Chinese. Each side has unique armies, myth units, and styles of play, including how to gain the "fervor" resource needed to produce myth units. Greeks just pray, Egyptians build monuments, Norse fuck shit up, Atlanteans make town centers, and Chinese make gardens. The game follows the traditional rock-paper-scissors format of infantry-archers-cavalry, but adds in the addition with myth units, which are strong against standard soldiers but weak to hero units, who are in turn easily overwhelmed by regular humans. There's a bunch of myth units, based on the worship of different gods.

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>>55386802
Pray I don't misunderstand it further.

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>>55387022

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>>55387075

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>>55386442
>Because Bastet is bestet.
>Bastet is the goddess of cats, the home, fire, sunrise, war, music, dance, pleasure, sexuality, fertility, family, pregnant women and children

Bastet confirmed for best girl.
Yes, the pic is a Digimon and her attire isn't proper Egyptian. Sue me.

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>>55387022
I'll check it out, but I've never been huge on RTS type games.

I was hoping for a first person type game which I can use to really immerse myself into the atmosphere.

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>>55385448
>Pyramids are miniature mountains
I like this anon. Good work

>>55386909
If you've guts to deal with mobages and shit that comes with them (i.e. grind, scummy gachas, either outright or borderline pay2win, etc.) a number of nip smartphone games have stuff plundered from dozens of different mythologies in them.

>>55385448
excelent choice anon

>>55385289

Not!Anything settings are lazy and IMO foolish. Instead, if you want to be lazy and at least look a little original, then do yourself a favor and pick two cultures that share some similarities and then paint them into a new culture that borrows elements of both but is also its own thing. It's not all the way over on the other end trying to do worldbuilding from first principles, but it's also not rank imitation using a culture that you won't know enough about and which will look silly if you're not careful.

So you have Egypt. Animistic and alien/primitive gods, an emphasis on death and the afterlife, a politically powerful, entrenched priesthood, and arid but semitropical conditions with an emphasis on irrigation and large scale public works.

Lets say you pick the Aztecs as your second culture. Then you plop this culture down in a region where the geography/climate are approximate matches.

So now we have the basis for creating an empire that borrows from two similar cultures. At that point we use iconography from both, or merge it, or use similar-but-new images and ideas. Now you have a unique-looking character set (secret and monopolized by the priesthood). An obsession with death and the afterlife, where deceased deified Serpent Kings are interred under massive animal/human hybrid statues above which is the tomb complex-- sanctified by vast orgies of human sacrifice of captives and conquered peoples.

>>55388384


The land is arid, but the Great River floods seasonally. Its floods are catastrophic if not controlled, but also fuel agriculture. A system of reservoirs and dams controls the floods and spares the peasants the damage of them. It also releases water for an extra growing season in some years, or to keep the Great River from going dry in others. All this according to the dictates of the Crocodile Priest, the Jaguar Priest, and the Eagle Priest, who study the omens in the waters, jungle outlands, and sky to give the commands to open or close the sluice gates.

Above them is the divine Serpent King, whose palace floats up and down the Great River according to the seasons and his whim. When the river gates are closed in the dry season and no extra growing season is permitted, that is the time of war when the peasant farmers take their obsidian sickle-swords and march to war.

They take hordes of slaves. Some are ensorcelled by the priests, forced to gaze into the Void of Night, after which they become broken and unable to summon the will to resist. A few whisper that their vital essence is drawn out by the stars but not sent there, and is instead retained for use by Priests or perhaps the King and his retinue. Broken slaves are reliable servants for temple and palace. Other slaves are leased to the common folk by the King when he is not using them himself to work on the flood control system, irrigation channels, or tomb monuments. And when the King dies, huge numbers are sacrificed to serve him in the afterlife-- after which the new King goes to war to replenish the slave pens.

>>55385289
The afterlife would make a cool campaign honestly

>>55385995
SOON KINGS

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>>55385588
Heh.

A religion obsesssed with death, (not killing and murder, that's the Not!Aztecs)

Giant snakes taking the place of dragons.

Maybe throw in some naval stuff. The Egyptians weren't great in the open seas, in fact they're boats were crap, they needed to buy foriegn lumber, but considering the time period, they were the only game in town besides any minoans and later Greeks.

On that note try diversifying the landscape. Maybe throw in some seas and oceans with accompanying beaches, mountain ranges that are either volcanic or snow-topped, some tropical jungles, or arid highlands at the foot of the river.

>>55386575
kill it with scarabs

>>55385448
dwarves are like this in the current game I'm running, except no pyramids, more arches etc like the romans

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>>55385448
That's not how you Egyptian dwarf at all.

>>55389055
It looked like a sex doll statue at first glance.

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>>55385289
Go to the part about Mulhorand

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>>55385289
>Not even best monster girl
>Not even best desert monster girl
Shame

>>55390149
That's not a Kiki,
Looks like you are tragically mis-informed.

>>55385289
8/10 in the wang scale.

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>>55385289
>>55385322
To be fair, taking the whole Yakub/WE WUZ thing and playing it perfectly straight could make for a pretty amazing setting.

>>55386561
That's because a severed femoral artery means near instant death.

>>55386488
>The Chadatrotep archer
>The Virginest line trooper

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>>55388567

>>55387155
Maybe a mod for skyrim? First person is mostly relegated to walkers and fps so what you are looking for is pretty nice. Titan quest and smite are isometric and 3rd person respecticly. God of war I don't think is really immersice. And any indie games in the setting are mostly just for shits and giggles.
If you only hate rts and not citybuilders look at the old siera catalogue, both pharaoh and master of olympus have very good atmosphere.
I can probably come up with more if you want but this isn't v.
This thread is for cute brown girls :P

>>55391371
mods agree apparentlly

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>>55386575

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Oh, you're still here!

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>>55393466
Watch out, that's a little risque

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>>55393483
Risque business is the only way to do business in the desert.

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>>55391027
>man dies if his source of power, the golden dong, is severed
I believe it