Campaign set in the late Stone Age/early Bronze Age...


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Got both of those too, lol. The campaign is going to be in a desert setting, so Sandstorm is a must. Any books, articles, or suggestions in dealing with a very low magic, low tech campaign?
 

Funny I would've thought magic would be fairly common in a stone-age setting it certainly was IRL.

Do you mean low magic as in nobody has it or low magic as in it's all pretty low level or low magic as in it has very little real affect on the world except that it gives humanity that little bit of an edge to survive in the face of an ecology that produces the Tarasque?
 

Religious faith is very common (most of the region is monotheistic), but actual magic and clerical abilities are nearly non-existent. Magic feeds from life, merely holding a magic item will incur hit point damage.

The more powerful the item, the more it feeds on nearby life. Those within a foot or two of a +1 dagger, might only drain 1 hit point every few days, a +5 dagger might drain 1 hit point an hour, or a +5 keen brilliant energy dagger might drain 1 hit point a minute. Spells, when cast, can have similar effects (think defilers in Dark Sun).

Resources in the region are very, very scarce. Most people are part of hunter-gatherer tribes, but a few have taken the rare "rich" lands available and have me permanent agricultural communities.
 


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