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  1. 2017-09-06, 08:44 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #338
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    Default Re: How to -- 4th century BCE setting

    Quote Originally Posted by Kiero View Post
    Why not have more than one Games, as there was in the ancient world? They had the Olympic, Pythean, Nemean and Isthmian Games. Each one on a staggered, four-year cycle so there were major games somewhere every year.
    Probably a good idea. I'm just starting from the very broad conclusion that I need to have "games".

    Looking through one of the books I picked up for research... saw some pictures of the remains of "hotels" near Olympia that were supposedly built to get the visitors out of the squalid, fly-plagued tent camps that they had started staying in as the games grew in popularity and the number of visitors had ballooned. Made me think both of the games, and of how the need for hotel space reminded me of the way Indianapolis filled up for GenCon.
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