OGL Ancients is a roleplaying game set in a world long past, where Greek heroes do battle with horrendous monsters and Egyptian priests pray to weird, animal-headed divinities. This is an environment that many roleplayers will not have ventured into before. Instead of cottages, castles and dungeons, the environment is one of great columned temples, amphitheatres, pyramids and hanging gardens, where wise or corrupt kings rule over their monstrous empires and wars are fought for generations over the hand of one beautiful queen. The world of the Ancients is one of true heroes remembered forever after, where a man favoured by the Gods can rise from the humblest of origins to command half the world.

The Ancients game is set before the rise of the Roman Empire and focuses on the two most influential civilisations of the ancient world, the Egyptians and the Greeks, though other cultures also appear. Those who wish to play the game as a ‘straight’ re-enactment of history may do so, drawing upon accurate historical depictions of weapons, armour, equipment and the structure of society, while those who prefer the fantastic element may include such mythic elements as the wrangling of the Gods, the emergence of heroes with divine blood and the appearance of monsters truly worthy of the name.