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<blockquote data-quote="Corey II" data-source="post: 311877" data-attributes="member: 4494">For my campaign world I simply picked the era that interested me, researched it and then changed all the names.&nbsp; Essentially, it is the eastern part of the Persian Empire (modern Afghanistan, my wife is from there) a few years after Alexander's former generals got done smacking each other around in the Successor Wars.A few thoughts:In this period the nomads known collectively as Scythians (later Huns and Mongols) were getting fiesty, ripping up some lovely &quot;civilized&quot; lands. This makes for one point- borders mean very little.&nbsp; The nomads, who were very definitly the main threat to civilization, go where they please. Their practices of deliberatly malforming their children's skulls and facial scarring made people of the time wonder if they were even human.For equipment, the main difference between this period and the standard medieval setting, you can go to the Wizards site and for a minimal cost ($5 a piece) download the 2nd edition Age of Heros Campaign Sourcebook and the Players Option: Combat and Tactics book.&nbsp; Both have excellant &quot;Bronze Age&quot; equipment lists.Since bronze is the primary metal, the baseline, used for weapons, I would not give it any modifiers.&nbsp; Add a plus to iron (or just say a masterwork weapon is iron) and a minus to bone/stone. No stirrups for horses and saddles are basically blankets.&nbsp; This means Ride DCs increase.Maps and news about the greater world are very rare and very precious. You're right, literacy is a big deal and should be fairly rare.&nbsp; Corey</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Corey II, post: 311877, member: 4494"] For my campaign world I simply picked the era that interested me, researched it and then changed all the names. Essentially, it is the eastern part of the Persian Empire (modern Afghanistan, my wife is from there) a few years after Alexander's former generals got done smacking each other around in the Successor Wars. A few thoughts: In this period the nomads known collectively as Scythians (later Huns and Mongols) were getting fiesty, ripping up some lovely "civilized" lands. This makes for one point- borders mean very little. The nomads, who were very definitly the main threat to civilization, go where they please. Their practices of deliberatly malforming their children's skulls and facial scarring made people of the time wonder if they were even human. For equipment, the main difference between this period and the standard medieval setting, you can go to the Wizards site and for a minimal cost ($5 a piece) download the 2nd edition Age of Heros Campaign Sourcebook and the Players Option: Combat and Tactics book. Both have excellant "Bronze Age" equipment lists. Since bronze is the primary metal, the baseline, used for weapons, I would not give it any modifiers. Add a plus to iron (or just say a masterwork weapon is iron) and a minus to bone/stone. No stirrups for horses and saddles are basically blankets. This means Ride DCs increase. Maps and news about the greater world are very rare and very precious. You're right, literacy is a big deal and should be fairly rare. Corey [/QUOTE]

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