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Mars Ultor by Mark Cartwright

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A popular choice!

I could easily fill a book with folk tales on the Thirty Years' War alone...

@juergen_hubert That does, in fact, seem like an excellent subject for a collection, and may be of interest to historians as well as folklorists.

@ljwrites

My favorite is where a bunch of villagers attempt to build a #Fallout -style Vault (well, a low-tech version) to wait out the war. But I haven't gotten around to translating it.

@juergen_hubert @ljwrites

Oh that does sound good.

Now I am imagining the brainstorming session:

"What if we ask the Venetians to help?"
"What if we ask the kobolds?"
"What if we all enroll in a Black School, and just stay for the shelter?"

@androcat @ljwrites

The dwarves and the Devil have also traditionally been hired for engineering projects.

Hmmm... I think my idea of a German folklore-themed #ttrpg setting set in the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War has even more potential for dungeons than I had thought. I mean, it worked for #Earthdawn , didn't it?

@juergen_hubert @androcat shelter vaults, ravaged castles, sleeping kings, dwarven homes, dark foreboding forests as arboreal dungeons--so many possibilities!

@ljwrites @juergen_hubert

Yeah, there are a lot of different flavors of underground domains available.

Come to think of it, this "there are different flavors of dungeons" idea is central to most of the Elder Scrolls games.