Hi Forums,
So I've recently been noodling around the Idea for a campaign world that is basically a fantasy version of the Mediterranean world during the Hellenic Period (500-200BC). The campaign would be kind of a sand-box, the players could go slaying ancient mythological creatures, be pirates, get involved in wars, and such.
Standard player races would not be available, instead players would choose from the civilizations that were active in the Mediterranean at that time, plus Atlantis (fantasy yey!). The list I've come up with so far are Greeks (Sparta & Athens), Phoenician (incl. Carthaginian), Persian (incl. Anatolian), Egyptians, Atlantean, Barbarian (Gaul?). Each Civ would have it's own racial traits and religions based loosely on history (ie. Greek clerics would choose domains based in the Greek pantheon of gods, Egyptian clerics on a different pantheon.)
What I'd like to do is to restrict each race to certain class choices that are thematic to their history (ie. every starting race would have 4-5 options), in addition to exclusive access to one class. For example, only Persians would have the option to be Djinni Binders (summoners), only Gauls could be Druids, only Atlanteans could be Wizards, etc.
So a few questions I guess:
(1) Does this idea sound fun (would you want to play in this game?)
(2) I'm sure that there are many people out there that are more knowledgeable that I when it comes to this Period, do you think that my list of Civs is appropriate
(3) With the exception of the 3 that I mentioned I haven't come up with the "thematically exclusive" class for Greeks, Egyptians, and Phoenicians?
(4) Any general thoughts / feedback?