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<blockquote data-quote="EvanNave55" data-source="post: 7269309" data-attributes="member: 6789374"><p>If those are the criteria (which I would hardly consider to be the only possible representations of an adventuring party) Then no Neanderthals would not work because to get the academic type and rogue type civilization, society, and technology must have advanced enough to allow for people to start specialising into specific fields (rather than every person being a hunter/gatherer) and for there to be codified laws (oldest known <em>written</em> example: Hammurabi's code 1754 BC) and inventions such as locks (we're still not entirely certain when they were invented, but atleast 6,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt from the quick search I did). So tales involving such characters could potentially date back to ~1,700 BC. However you said they had to not just have tales of there adventures but for this group to specially <em>seek out</em> treasure and heroics? That narrows it down A LOT more but I'd still say at least two or three thousand years ago.</p><p></p><p>In my opinion however that is <strong>far</strong> too narrow a vision of what an adventuring party is. After all you've just thrown out almost every party of individuals that have gone on adventures together (A.K.A. adventuring party) in history. To me an adventuring party is merely any group of individuals frequently (though not always) with varying skills sets whose deeds and adventures are talked about in tales, folklore, legends, etc.</p><p></p><p>Sent from my XT1635-01 using <a href="http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=93205" target="_blank">EN World mobile app</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EvanNave55, post: 7269309, member: 6789374"] If those are the criteria (which I would hardly consider to be the only possible representations of an adventuring party) Then no Neanderthals would not work because to get the academic type and rogue type civilization, society, and technology must have advanced enough to allow for people to start specialising into specific fields (rather than every person being a hunter/gatherer) and for there to be codified laws (oldest known [I]written[/I] example: Hammurabi's code 1754 BC) and inventions such as locks (we're still not entirely certain when they were invented, but atleast 6,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt from the quick search I did). So tales involving such characters could potentially date back to ~1,700 BC. However you said they had to not just have tales of there adventures but for this group to specially [I]seek out[/I] treasure and heroics? That narrows it down A LOT more but I'd still say at least two or three thousand years ago. In my opinion however that is [B]far[/B] too narrow a vision of what an adventuring party is. After all you've just thrown out almost every party of individuals that have gone on adventures together (A.K.A. adventuring party) in history. To me an adventuring party is merely any group of individuals frequently (though not always) with varying skills sets whose deeds and adventures are talked about in tales, folklore, legends, etc. Sent from my XT1635-01 using [URL="http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=93205"]EN World mobile app[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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