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Yeah, I'm not trying to make the Native Americans out to be evil or anything, specially since I have their blood coursing through my veins. I like the Wood Elf idea. Perhaps I could go with the Wood Elves for the helpful types who are anti-city, but the Goblinoids for the savage types who attack just for the sake of attack. But the whole idea is of a frontier area with loads of danger.

Race can be one way of doing the "natives". Another can be that the natives are more Celt-like, where the druid faith comes from. A more naturalistic lifestyle, largely at odds with the urban centers.

If you really wanted to give the setting an odd shake-up, you could mix in some stuff that seems otherwise out of place. For instance, perhaps this cult of shaitan, being largely persecuted and unwelcome in the societies, run around in a manner like Gypsies... having witches, fortune tellers, and odd flamboyant caravans moving among the fringes. I like like the servants of Dracula or those early b&w movie depictions.

I also think in terms of developing the general setting, that there should be another rival culture in the mix. Like Spaniards that are occasionally encountered, missions and conquests for gold. They might worship similarly, but have an alternate organizational structure that otherwise mirrors the main church (and is generally at odds with each other or is actively adversarial).

I would love to see something sorta 'out-there' in it all. Maybe the Lawful Dwarves in the far north (past Ravenstone) have taken the Lawful society all the way to a full blown communist outlook... even calling each other "comrade" and having Russian inspired architecture transposed into mountain retreats (Kremlin on top of a mountain). Red flags with Hammer and Forge (instead of sickle) everywhere. Anyhow, I haven't seen that done before.

Anyhow, just random thoughts I have had this morning about Morgansfort in general. I love how the setting for Morgansfort has so much to expand on.

Yummy, Gypsies in caravans pushing the Cult of Shaitan. That's just brilliant. And you don't even need the Dracula connection.

I've dealt with the Dwarves in a manner, but not thoroughly. They are quite the anti-Tahists and could be a sort of heavy in their own right. I like the idea of Communist Dwarves with a Russian feel. Its certainly a break from the Nordic depiction with Scottish accent they normally get. And the beards certainly fit in.

As for the Spanish, I've added a sort of Inquisition into the Church of Tah Supplement, so it could be expanded in a setting supplement.

Yeah, the Comrade Dwarves could be even staunchly atheistic, or their clerics get spells from a Lawful Motherland 'divine aspect', the power of the community working together in an ideal socialist way to empower. I can also see their sort of clergy operating more like the whole KGB oversight of their society.

Fyi- I find the communist dwarf thing ironically funny, because otherwise I lean towards a more conservative Catholic/Christian outlook on most things. A chance to play in a manner rather unlike my real life would normally take things.

And... I would love to have one of those fuzzy helmet things the old fashioned soldiers had.

You mean a bearskin hat? Now that'd be a picture I would love to see. A dwarf in a bearskin hat.

Hmmm... Comrade Dwarves of the Demonfrost Mountains, wearing white Bearskin hats (made from Polar Bear fur), in highly starched uniforms, and speaking with Russian accents. Who wouldn't want to play one?!? Alternatively, you could go with a feather bonnet.

State Clerics = KGB... I like it.

Okay, one supplement at a time.

shadowmane wrote:You mean a bearskin hat? Now that'd be a picture I would love to see. A dwarf in a bearskin hat.

Hmmm... Comrade Dwarves of the Demonfrost Mountains, wearing white Bearskin hats (made from Polar Bear fur), in highly starched uniforms, and speaking with Russian accents. Who wouldn't want to play one?!? Alternatively, you could go with a feather bonnet.

State Clerics = KGB... I like it.

Okay, one supplement at a time.

Here are more visual ideas on this line of thought:
http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/7093/husssar.png

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xDaqj3TXrzI/U ... ssacks.jpg

http://www.soundchristian.com/magog/russian.jpg

And then the Shaitan Gypsies:
http://www.badeagle.com/beimages/gypsy.jpg

http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/XsFilms/S ... chEvil.jpg

http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3601095-v

http://www.utoledo.edu/LIBRARY/carlson/ ... teller.jpg

http://coffeegypsycafe.com/pics/gypsy2.jpg

Just images to help the imagination.

May not be a bad idea to scope out the Khador from Warmachine.. My son and I recently got into Warmachine and I am fielding a Khador army.. I love the whole Imperial Russian feel to them.

Hmmm... now I'm going to have to check into my GURPS Russians sourcebook for Russian Folklore. Um... no wait. One supplement at a time. I'm still working on the Church of Tah.

Is this the point to note/plug Red Star (Soviet Magitek flying tank carriers) and Twice Blessed (for the vodka-chugging dwarf who speaks with a cyrillic-themed font?). Just tossing it out there.

So, will Solomon Kane feature into the Tahite materials?

No Solomon Kane. I haven't read the books or seen the movie.