Eastern European RPGs - which is the least horrible?

[Kaftan Barlast]

If you spent time behind the iron curtain, you're in eastern europe. Thats the rule.

[Morgoth]

The Gothic games were made by companies located in Essen and Stuttgard respectively. Both are NOT in the former DDR.

[Kaftan Barlast]

Well, to be honest. I named this topic like this because "german and eastern-european RPGs.." didnt fit in the title. And not everyone knows what is defined as a GRPG.

[C2B]

Well, to be honest. I named this topic like this because "german and eastern-european RPGs.." didnt fit in the title. And not everyone knows what is defined as a GRPG.

 

Since when is GRPG even a defined gerne?

 

It's like the first time I've heard of it.

[Gorgon]

He made it up a month or so ago, but it describes a series of games pretty well. So we let him get away with it.

[Kaftan Barlast]

He made it up a month or so ago, but it describes a series of games pretty well. So we let him get away with it.

 

 

I can totally refudiate that.

[Orchomene]

Eastern and Western Europe haven't exactly been clearly defined throughout history. The Rhine and the Danube was really the most logical border between east and west, and it is only recently that it became a political division with the Iron Curtain.

 

edit: Sorophx, 78% of the population of Russia lives in the designated European area. It is referred to as Eurasia, if we want to be technical.

 

The Rhine seems to me to be a bit too much to the West to be a valid limit between western and eastern Europe. Former DDR, former Tchekoslovakia, Hungaria, Rumania are in central Europe. After that you can think about considering eastern Europe. But even there, like in some parts of Poland, this is still very central european.

You can sum up things by just considering that :

- Western Europe is the part of Europe where countries consider that the invasions come from the East.

- Eastern Europe is the part of Europe where countries consider that the invasions come from the West.

- Central Europe is the part of Europe where countries consider that the invasions come from the West and the East.

Of course, Central Europe suffered a lot more.

[C2B]

Eastern and Western Europe haven't exactly been clearly defined throughout history. The Rhine and the Danube was really the most logical border between east and west, and it is only recently that it became a political division with the Iron Curtain.

 

edit: Sorophx, 78% of the population of Russia lives in the designated European area. It is referred to as Eurasia, if we want to be technical.

 

The Rhine seems to me to be a bit too much to the West to be a valid limit between western and eastern Europe. Former DDR, former Tchekoslovakia, Hungaria, Rumania are in central Europe. After that you can think about considering eastern Europe. But even there, like in some parts of Poland, this is still very central european.

You can sum up things by just considering that :

- Western Europe is the part of Europe where countries consider that the invasions come from the East.

- Eastern Europe is the part of Europe where countries consider that the invasions come from the West.

- Central Europe is the part of Europe where countries consider that the invasions come from the West and the East.

Of course, Central Europe suffered a lot more.

 

And some of the countries like my Switzerland don't give a crap about any invasion.

 

[Orchomene]

Who would want to invade a country which is at 80% mountainous ?

[sorophx]

by the way, http://wowrussia.com/

[Hurlshort]

Eastern and Western Europe haven't exactly been clearly defined throughout history. The Rhine and the Danube was really the most logical border between east and west, and it is only recently that it became a political division with the Iron Curtain.

 

edit: Sorophx, 78% of the population of Russia lives in the designated European area. It is referred to as Eurasia, if we want to be technical.

 

The Rhine seems to me to be a bit too much to the West to be a valid limit between western and eastern Europe. Former DDR, former Tchekoslovakia, Hungaria, Rumania are in central Europe. After that you can think about considering eastern Europe. But even there, like in some parts of Poland, this is still very central european.

You can sum up things by just considering that :

- Western Europe is the part of Europe where countries consider that the invasions come from the East.

- Eastern Europe is the part of Europe where countries consider that the invasions come from the West.

- Central Europe is the part of Europe where countries consider that the invasions come from the West and the East.

Of course, Central Europe suffered a lot more.

 

There really isn't a right or wrong answer here, all I'm saying is those are all political delineations that have not existed all that long. The Rhine and the Danube marked the eastern border of the Roman Empire. For centuries it was a very clear divider between the Roman civilization and barbarian masses.

[Morgoth]

East and West is much more a political border, less a geographical one. Hungary or Czech Republic for instance are Central Europe, but because of their ties with the Soviet past, they are considered Eastern Europe.

[Bendu]

Who would want to invade a country which is at 80% mountainous ?

The German Minister of Finance.

Edited January 16, 2011 by Bendu

[Kaftan Barlast]

East and West is much more a political border, less a geographical one. Hungary or Czech Republic for instance are Central Europe, but because of their ties with the Soviet past, they are considered Eastern Europe.

 

 

Here we just tend to divide it into europe and eastern europe, where the latter is any country that was part of the warzaw pact. And no, we dont count russia/belarus/ukraine to be a part of any Europe

Edited January 16, 2011 by Kaftan Barlast

[Vilhelm]

Here we just tend to divide it into europe and eastern europe, where the latter is any country that was part of the warzaw pact. And no, we dont count russia/belarus/ukraine to be a part of any Europe

 

Here being where? And why don't you consider Russia, Belarus or Ukraine a part of Europe?

[Gorgon]

Psychological borders, the cold war, that kind of thing.

[Morgoth]

I agree with Kaft on this one: Russians ain't Europeans, they are Russkies.

[Gorgon]

And they feel the same way too

[Vilhelm]

The British feel the same way, but it doesn't necessarily mean they aren't.

[Orogun01]

Psychological borders, the cold war, that kind of thing.

Geographic barriers, Russia it's actually in Asia, Europe ideologically and if you want to compromise Eurasia.

[Gorgon]

According to Wikipedia Russia is in the European continent. It's continual land mass though, so where does Asia start.

[Hurlshort]

Europe isn't really a continent anyways.

 

I don't even think it's a real place, it's like never never land.

[Gorgon]

It's the only place in the world that doesn't have one armpit of a country connecting the next. Well, it does too but not continually.

[Orogun01]

According to Wikipedia Russia is in the European continent. It's continual land mass though, so where does Asia start.

From Wikipedia:

 

is a state in northern Eurasia

Personally I think that Peter the Great efforts to make Russia a part of Europe last to this day. But there are many differences between Russia and Europe, mostly geographical that puts them at odd.

[Gorgon]

I didn't believe it when I read it, but It said Russia was had the biggest population in the European continent. Type in 'Europe', instead of 'Russia'