I love the stone age
List of cool things Ryan learned reading Wikipedia while researching for his Stone Age-era D&D game:
Start at this page -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_invention -- and read all the links.
I want a fucking boomerang!
The term "stockholder" comes from the use of unevenly split tally sticks. Wiki up 'tally sticks' if you're curious.
People were fucking _mining_ more than 10 thousand years ago!
Two most important skills to learn in case of nuclear apocalypse: stone shaping and fire building. Without the first you can't do anything else. Without the second you can't get enough nutrients to fend off the mutants who want to eat your (raw) flesh.
Atlatls are nifty, but they got invented _after_ bows. What's up with that? (And they're still not cooler than boomerangs.)
During my next session, have somebody show off a 'Venus figurine.' They're hot. (It's mythic if they were religious symbols of fertility. But it's _funny_ if you follow the modern theory that stone age men used them as porn.)
We need to build the Tower of Babylon in order to assault heaven!
How the hell did I find this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_most_dangerous_idea ?
I think my setting is roughly analogous to 10,000 BC, technology wise. But I tried to introduce writing a few millennia too early. Well, it's more like proto-writing symbology anyway. And I apparently shouldn't have 'beer' yet, but there are still alcoholic beverages. But no bread. Heh. No cloth either. But screw it, I have beer.
Still 5,000 years 'til they get wheels, but let's see how they leverage their magic in shaping the world. I'm excited.
Start at this page -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_invention -- and read all the links.
I want a fucking boomerang!
The term "stockholder" comes from the use of unevenly split tally sticks. Wiki up 'tally sticks' if you're curious.
People were fucking _mining_ more than 10 thousand years ago!
Two most important skills to learn in case of nuclear apocalypse: stone shaping and fire building. Without the first you can't do anything else. Without the second you can't get enough nutrients to fend off the mutants who want to eat your (raw) flesh.
Atlatls are nifty, but they got invented _after_ bows. What's up with that? (And they're still not cooler than boomerangs.)
During my next session, have somebody show off a 'Venus figurine.' They're hot. (It's mythic if they were religious symbols of fertility. But it's _funny_ if you follow the modern theory that stone age men used them as porn.)
We need to build the Tower of Babylon in order to assault heaven!
How the hell did I find this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_most_dangerous_idea ?
I think my setting is roughly analogous to 10,000 BC, technology wise. But I tried to introduce writing a few millennia too early. Well, it's more like proto-writing symbology anyway. And I apparently shouldn't have 'beer' yet, but there are still alcoholic beverages. But no bread. Heh. No cloth either. But screw it, I have beer.
Still 5,000 years 'til they get wheels, but let's see how they leverage their magic in shaping the world. I'm excited.