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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 3286940" data-attributes="member: 40522">I have run what I consider to be an 'ancient' campaign, far in the prehistory of my main homebrew. The single biggest gripe I got was on the equipment.First of all, I imagined the setting as a sparsely populated wilderness just struggling out of the stone age and into the bronze age. For simplicity's sake, I assumed that weapons were made of stone, bone, or wood; and "masterwork" weapons were made of bronze. I know this isn't accurate to the rules but I wanted to avoid the weirdness of penalizing every weapon in the game. I also ruled that there were no wizards, clerics, paladins or bards: these classes were too 'advanced' for what I had in mind. Sorcerers and druids were the big spellcasters and rogues couldn't take Disable Device (as nothing was that complicated yet). I used the defense rules from Unearthed Arcana as hide was the most advanced armor.The setting itself I presented as a blend of Howard's Hyborea (the Conan setting), the pre-flood Earth as presented in the Bible, and some of the mythic age from the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Golden Age from Greek Mythology. "Cities" were usually walled houses with their attendant servants, although several true villages also dotted the wilderness. Writing had not yet been invented and most everyone was only concerned with getting food and shelter and avoiding monsters. The most advanced sciences were clay brick buildings and simple agriculture. Bronze was the newly emerging discipline that held the world in awe.The players said that it was very scary, as I presented a world still reeling from the creation with primordial elementals, jinn, and demons wandering the earth. With no kingdoms, no maps, and no trade the characters were truly on their own.</blockquote>

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