So I've had this game in my library for a while, but I've done very little with it, and want to revisit it. I'm hoping I can find a group of my friends to start a game with, but before I do, I was wondering if people could help my with a few of the finer points.
Before we start, though, I've been GMing for quite some time, but mostly D&D, Pathfinder, and Shadowrun. I like a lot of what I see in Arcanis's system, especially martial maneuvers, the way spellcasting works, and how a character's background figures mechanically into character creation.
As far as my familiarity with the world, though, it's scant. I've got the core rulebook, the 3.5 setting book (it seemed to be better organized from a lore oriented standpoint) and the bestiary. I'm living in China and have no easy way to replenish my bank account (country runs on cash), so those three books are pretty much what I will have to work with. That being in mind, I would love to pick the community's brain on the following.
What would you say the major cultural analogues are to cultures in Arcanis? Coryan, the Abessian Dominion, and the Hinterlands are glaringly obvious, but the rest seem like they're a little more unique. The suggestions for names seem like a starting point, but only just, because they seem to have a lot mixed in there. I would especially like to try and understand Khitani and the Kio better, and I'd like to see if I can understand Milandir beyond "medieval Germany."
If I where starting a new campaign, with new players who knew nothing about the setting, what would be a good starting point? I was thinking of just focusing on either Coryan or Milandir, the latter because it seems like it would be the most familiar to people used to cookie cutter high fantasy, and the former because just telling them "it's basically Rome" gives them a place to start, and because there seems to be enough diversity within its provinces to explore some more elements of the world. I had also been batting around the idea of doing something in the Blessed Lands because it seems to draw people from everywhere, but I think I might be biting off more than I could chew in that instance.
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