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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 671160" data-attributes="member: 63">Round One: Stone AgeThe following conflict is just an example of many of the common inter-tribal warfare among primitive humanoids (they could be humans, or elves, or dwarves, or what have you).The hill tribe lives in caves in the hills in a fairly northern area, climate akin to northern Italy or southern France, gathering food from the sparse forest around them and occasionally hunting for deer, bear, and other meat.  They have stone knives, and wear bearskins, and during the winter they can stay in their caves to keep warm.  They know how to make fires, and their shamans control the fire to prove their magical power.  The plains tribe does not know how to make fire.  They travel and tend to scavenge a lot, though sometimes they can bring down a large animal with their stone-headed spears (which they normally use as walking sticks).  In the winter they migrate south and live along the coast, fishing and living in makeshift huts made of piles of stone with skins on top.  They usually wear only light pieces of skin to protect themselves from sunburn, since their winters are mild.  Their leaders are strong warriors, who are assisted by witches who can speak with animals.  Thus, the tribe usually doesn't fear predators, and they have slightly domesticated wild dogs as traveling companions.Both tribes have normal intelligence; they're primitive people, not just primates, and so they have fully developed social and spiritual lives, plus storytellers and other artists.  Don't think of them as mindless brutes.The two tribes come into conflict in the middle of summer, when the plains tribe's leader decides to hunt in a forest at the northern edge of their travels.  When they get fairly far to the forest, heading into some foothills, they try to take down a bear.  Simultaneously, though, the hill tribe's hunters appear as well.  The two groups stop fighting for a while in confusion, but the bear attacks, and together the two groups bring the bear down.  But they don't speak the same language, so there's no chance for them to peacefully divide the bear carcass.  A fight breaks out, and the son of the plains tribe's leader is killed by being stabbed with a knife, while two hill tribe members are wounded with spears (one of which later dies).  The plains tribesmen run off, leaving behind their fallen, and thus the conflict starts.  The two tribes (each has about 40 warriors, plus another 60 or so non-combatants) occasionally skirmish, the plains people primarily wanting to take revenge for the theft of their leader's son, and the hill people trying to defend their territory.How will either side get an edge?  The brightest minds of the two tribes think of ways to fight the other tribe.  Especially of interest is how the shamans or witches will aid their tribes with their magic.*Future rounds will go through the bronze age, on to a more roman style civilization, and eventually on to a medieval setting we see in most fantasy settings.</blockquote>

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