To create your characters you can do it in one of two ways:
* The common way is to roll 4d6, drop lowest, arrange to taste. This is good if you have a concept and are willing to develop it (three pages of background is enough).
* If you hate rolling and leaving your stats to chance, you can point buy. But, to use 25 point buy means you have to earn it. You have to create most or all of your background using Paul Jaquays' Central Casting: Heroes of Legend from Task Force Games.
Record your characters and their backgrounds on this thread so we can get started. If you use Central Casting, record your results of your rolls so that everyone can see how your background was generated. you have a choice as to where you can play: you can play with my regular group on OpenRPG at the Adult Only Server every fridays at 6 PM Mountain Standard time (and it's flagged as Adult Only). Or you can opt to play here.
Characters in my Open RPG game are at level 8. Here, as an online thread, you start at level 1.
You may need to look at some production design to get you in the mood:
Here are a few paintings to look at to represent the Levantine and Persian sectors --
*The Reception of the Ambassadors in Damascus
* The portrait of Mehmed II
* The Turkish Bath -- warning: this 19th Century painting may get you fired from work. Not Safe for Work.
* The Hypaethral Temple of Philae
* The Slave Market -- this 19th Century painting will also get you fired. Not Safe for Work.
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Vedic quarter paintings:
* Raja Ravi Press' painting of Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana
* Indian Landscape painting.
* Portrait of Sir T. Madhava Rao
Media depicting India --
Ramayan T.V. series on Youtube Episode 1
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Hellenic Quarter production Design:
Media to watch -- Clash of the Titans 1981.