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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2011534" data-attributes="member: 18387">When I first accessed the demo for Lost Prehistorica, I was excited. The demo portrayed several feats - a few of which covered cannibalism. This was just what I looking for - rules on the more unusual aspects of "primitive" cultures. Lost Prehistorica did not live up to my expectation; rather, it delivered a cursory treatment of primitive cultures in eight chapters over 105 pages. Lost Prehistorica discusses the use of primitive cultures and lost islands as a suitable setting for a campaign. To that end, it addresses various aspects of primitive life in a D20 context; the chapters include the environment (7 pages), cultures (10 pages), tribes (4 pages), items (6 pages), characters (37 pages), religion (4 pages) and monsters (25 pages). As can be readily seen by the page counts, all but the characters and bestiary chapters are quickly covered. By way of example, the issue that attracted me to this publication - cannibalism - is given but one page. What the book does provide is a plethora of new character races (12 in all), many of which follow in the Arcana Unearthed tradition. Cat people (Felklaw) and newt people (Amphimids) provide good examples. The character section also discusses how the standard D&D races and classes fit into a primitive culture campaign. Other crunchy bits can be found in the various chapters and include 10 new feats. There are, however, no new spells or new prestige classes. Lost Prehistorica provides very little in way of crunch bits with just a touch of fluff.What I did like about Lost Prehistorica was the bestiary. It presents 45 creatures; many of which are dinosaurs (and how can that be bad). This included a section on common critters which discussed their value in terms of gp, their use, and cultural significance. There is, however, some duplication between this section and the new races section of the Characters chapter.In hindsight, Lost Prehistorica set out to accomplish a lot in taking on primitive cultures as a viable setting, but it fell short of that mark. It provided little fluff and less crunch. While Lost Prehistorica is a great idea, keep your money in your checking accounting.</blockquote>

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