Working on a Meso/Neo-lithic (mid stone age) setting for a semi-ongoing campaign (5 session bursts in the midst of the other ongoing campaign for a change of pace).
I don't need help on the technological or rules aspects (I've got races,classes & etc figured out), but I could definitely use some ideas on cultural stuff, plots that would make sense in the setting and some adventure ideas.
The concept I love, but my head is still stuck in pseudo-medeval/dark ages mode and needs a swift kick, hopefully some of you can provide it.
This is my opening premise:
You all belong to a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe (Players will name it), it’s a fairly small tribe of approx ~500 individuals including children. You are the best hunters and warriors of the tribe and are essential to defending from other tribes attacks and ensuring your people have enough food to last throughout the long winters. You wander the plains and grasslands in the summer following the herds of deer, elk and other ungulates that provide most of your meat supply. Winters are spent in small stone & wood huts in a southern valley where your tribe is constructing a small monument to both commemerate the winter solstice and honor their dead. The monument grows closer to completion each winter, but still requires several massive pieces of stone(many tons) to be brought in to complete.
Ancestors are held in a postion of near worship and their spirits are believed to stay with the tribe to watch over and protect it. Part of this is evident in how the dead are treated. Those who perish are kept until their bodies can be buried at the site of the monument, so that their spirits can pass on “into the body’s winter”. For this reason all burials are held on the night of the winter solstice when the sunsets. The monument is to mark the solstice as well as provide a resting place for the honored dead.
A recent raid on your winter village has resulted in the deaths of several of your warrior-hunters as well as a few of the men & women toiling on the monument. Several women & children were carried off by oppossing warriors as well. The Maecia tribe has attacked you on several occassions the last few years, usually while you winter in the valley, but on occassion attacking groups of your hunter’s from ambush. There is talk of launching a counter-raid to retaliate for what has occurred and it seems likely that if one isn’t taken that a few of the hotter tempered young men will go anyway.
Some ideas thus far:
-transporting/quarrying stone for the monument
-raiding the rival tribe
-making peace with the rival tribe
-fending off strange animals & beasts
-survival
Past that I've got nothing, I'd like to get some high RP stuff in too, but am drawing a blank thus far.
edit: And it's using 4e D&D if that matters.
I don't need help on the technological or rules aspects (I've got races,classes & etc figured out), but I could definitely use some ideas on cultural stuff, plots that would make sense in the setting and some adventure ideas.
The concept I love, but my head is still stuck in pseudo-medeval/dark ages mode and needs a swift kick, hopefully some of you can provide it.
This is my opening premise:
You all belong to a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe (Players will name it), it’s a fairly small tribe of approx ~500 individuals including children. You are the best hunters and warriors of the tribe and are essential to defending from other tribes attacks and ensuring your people have enough food to last throughout the long winters. You wander the plains and grasslands in the summer following the herds of deer, elk and other ungulates that provide most of your meat supply. Winters are spent in small stone & wood huts in a southern valley where your tribe is constructing a small monument to both commemerate the winter solstice and honor their dead. The monument grows closer to completion each winter, but still requires several massive pieces of stone(many tons) to be brought in to complete.
Ancestors are held in a postion of near worship and their spirits are believed to stay with the tribe to watch over and protect it. Part of this is evident in how the dead are treated. Those who perish are kept until their bodies can be buried at the site of the monument, so that their spirits can pass on “into the body’s winter”. For this reason all burials are held on the night of the winter solstice when the sunsets. The monument is to mark the solstice as well as provide a resting place for the honored dead.
A recent raid on your winter village has resulted in the deaths of several of your warrior-hunters as well as a few of the men & women toiling on the monument. Several women & children were carried off by oppossing warriors as well. The Maecia tribe has attacked you on several occassions the last few years, usually while you winter in the valley, but on occassion attacking groups of your hunter’s from ambush. There is talk of launching a counter-raid to retaliate for what has occurred and it seems likely that if one isn’t taken that a few of the hotter tempered young men will go anyway.
Some ideas thus far:
-transporting/quarrying stone for the monument
-raiding the rival tribe
-making peace with the rival tribe
-fending off strange animals & beasts
-survival
Past that I've got nothing, I'd like to get some high RP stuff in too, but am drawing a blank thus far.
edit: And it's using 4e D&D if that matters.
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