Ah, man.

[thebitterguy]

I've had Nyambe for almost six years now. It's an awesome book, and I think it would be a great setting for a D&D game (and would work very well with an Arabian themed game, as connections are built into the world).

Anyway, I just realized something very funny. The setting has no 'deities', as such, but clerics and druids commune with spirits of various types, called orisha.

One of the spirits is:

GuDuGu (goo-DOO-goo) is the fiendish orisha of nightmares and insanity. His followers drug themselves to experience terrifying hallucinations, sometimes committing horrible atrocities wile so affected.

Would you like rice with that, indeed!

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[athelind.livejournal.com]

Hee HEE hee.

I had Nyambe, too. Excellent setting, with a lot of potential, and something other than Generic Dungeon Fantasy. If we'd seen more settings and games like that, I'd have been a lot more impressed by the "d20 Revolution."

It's now in possession of my stepdaughter and son-in-law, who actually PLAY D&D. I need to con them into doing something with it.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I didn't mind Nyambe, but I must admit I couldn't really envision much in the way of what to do with it. Al Qadim I found rather more compelling. But I still thought it was a decent setting and worth what I paid for it.

[thebitterguy]

Nyambe would work really well as a standard D&D game with lots of wilderness components. The web site has some neat stuff, including a couple adventures.

And it was worth every dime of what I paid for it, and more!

[maliszew.livejournal.com]

I feel pretty much the same way. I think the problem was that, unlike Al Qadim, there's just not a storehouse of easily accessible African-style adventure tales to use as source material. There are the "Imaro" novels, of course, but Nyambe seemed to be aiming for a more "serious" tone than simple swords & sorcery in a fake Africa.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Swords and sorcery is serious business! Everyone is very grim and frowny!