What places in history would you DFRP in?

[Sanctaphrax]

Wow, incredibly varied answers here.

[Gilitine_Memitim]

1650 to 1680 in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. Speaking of pirates.......

[Mrmdubois]

Playing a few supernaturals on Magellan's circumnavigation of Earth could be interesting.

Biggest ritual circle ever...

[Lavecki121]

Probably a little too much water though.

The crusades could be cool, or play a game of Jesus and his apostles. Possibly meet the guy who made the swords

[fantazero]

Pirates would be neat. Dresden Files: Pirates would be like the Rpg 7th Sea, but you know, good.

[Mrmdubois]

Probably a little too much water though.

Nah, you just need magic users specializing in water magic and lots of prep work, or for plot to happen.  I imagine leaving behind some kind of thaumaturgic setup on islands to daisy-chain the trip together too.

[blackstaff67]

I'd want to RP in Pre-Imperial Rome or perhaps Pharoanic Egypt, mebbe Sumer/Babylon.

[Crion]

What historical settings? This'll be fun :-D

I'm currently using DFRPG to power a Steampunk variant of England in 1867.

The Wild West would be fun; anyone who's enjoyed Deadlands would have a blast here.

The Dark Ages of Europe could be a blast as well. The 12th-13th Centuries in particular would be interested with the beginning of what we know as the Inquisition, while the 15th would be fun due to the War of the Roses (as previously mentioned).
If you are going with even earlier, then we can get the classic "advisor" to the King vibe going. . .and possibly even using Wizards as siege engines.

There's also something about the conquest of Alexander the Great that would be fun, as well as just about anything in the Roman Empire (a friend of mine has been toying with the idea of running an RPG in that era; I'm going to nudge her with the DFRPG).

Honestly, if we were to limit to a location, I'd use Italy and pick somewhere between The Italian Wars through the end of the Renaissance.

Pirates would be neat. Dresden Files: Pirates would be like the Rpg 7th Sea, but you know, good.

Speaking of this, I've actually been in talks with some guys from my old gaming group as to how to properly emulate the magic and swordsman schools of 7th Sea for a potential conversion. The closest we tested was using PDQ, but didn't think it fit. . .

If you have any thoughts/want to soundboard, feel free to send me a message.

[Vargo Teras]

Speaking of this, I've actually been in talks with some guys from my old gaming group as to how to properly emulate the magic and swordsman schools of 7th Sea for a potential conversion. The closest we tested was using PDQ, but didn't think it fit. . .

If you have any thoughts/want to soundboard, feel free to send me a message.

Perhaps a separate thread might work?

http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,37116.0.html

[Gilitine_Memitim]

Plus think of a necromancer pirate. Ghost ship anyone?

[Dr.FunLove]

I love me some ghost ship's.

[Lanir]

. . .and possibly even using Wizards as siege engines.

There is one part of that which doesn't work quite as well. When you have engineers making siege engines you can tell them if their catapults, trebuchets and ballistas don't breach the walls, you'll load them into their own machine and use them as ammo. Doesn't work as well when you order the wizard to fireball himself.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

[Crion]

There is one part of that which doesn't work quite as well. When you have engineers making siege engines you can tell them if their catapults, trebuchets and ballistas don't breach the walls, you'll load them into their own machine and use them as ammo. Doesn't work as well when you order the wizard to fireball himself.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

But you CAN tell the Wizard if he doesn't succeed, he will be loaded into the catapult and launched, just to see if he could fly ^_^

[Mrmdubois]

And give all those would-be aeromancers a head start.

[S1C0]

TRY VIETNAM