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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 1664166" data-attributes="member: 10784">Sounds like an interesting idea in making the PCs part of the lower tech civilization.  I will say that some of those societies may have been fairly advanced from a social perspective, but just behind when it came to making war.  Maybe they did not have a lot of natural enemies and did not need to develop the art of war, while the Spanish conquistadors in real life (IRL) were at war for centuries, be it with the Moors, the Crusades, infighting on the Iberian Peninsula, or with other European kingdoms, etc.  Because of the social perspective, I might allow clerics and mages and other ‘more advanced’ classes for the PCs, while possibly having the Conquistadors relying heavily/almost exclusively on gunpowder weapons instead of pure swords.  Swords were for melee, when necessary, but the butt of the gun as a club or a bayonet were just as likely to be used.  IRL, the European heavy knight died when gunpowder became prevalent.  An interesting angle might be the Conquerors trying to spread their religion to the ‘savages’ as well.  Do they have completely different gods?  Maybe they have a monotheistic religion, a la Catholicism?  Maybe they have the same gods, but worship different aspects of them (sort of like the Greeks had Zeus, the Romans had Jupiter and the Norse had Odin, while the Egyptians had Osiris or Ra (I forget which))I had had a tech level difference idea a while back, just never got to implement it.  But, it was also taking a page out of history with a bit of a twist.  In the 1200s, IRL, the Mongols invaded Europe, annihilating a Polish/German army and demolishing a Hungarian one before withdrawing when their Khan died.  In this campaign, the Mongol equivalent culture waited before invading Europe and consolidated their hold on China and both cultures sort of integrated themselves into one.  The Mongols/Chinese developed technology rapidly, including making use of Chinese gunpowder (developed centuries before it came into use in Medieval Europe)  The huge empire, instead of just Mongols, then marches forth with the combined population of China & Mongolia and sweeps towards the Middle East & Europe with an overwhelming amount of soldiers.  However, the huge empire’s goal was ultimately, peaceful.  Just a Pax Romana type peace.</blockquote>

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