D&D General Neolithic D&D

[Tonguez]

Does anybody have any comments about the last item on the list?

you mean the carnivorous white ape?

 

[mamba]

So you are saying mammoths were used to build the pyramids. I think they might have got a bit hot with all that shaggy fur. Maybe the Egyptians developed iron to make shears to shave their mammoths.

it contributed to their steep decline

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Because I'm a big fan of Chronos Cross, I cast my vote for an evil, decadent, empire of dinomen!

 

[Tonguez]

Maybe the Egyptians developed iron to make shears to shave their mammoths.

interestingly enough the Egyptians remained a Copper-Age culture, Iron forging doesnt occur there until after the Greek/Roman period. Though the Egyptians might have been importing their shears from their neighbours

 

[Paul Farquhar]

it contributed to their steep decline

interestingly enough the Egyptians remained a Copper-Age culture, Iron forging doesnt occur there until after the Greek/Roman period. Though the Egyptians might have been importing their shears from their neighbours

They died of septicaemia from nicks received whist shaving with blunt copper shears.

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

you mean the carnivorous white ape?

No, that's not the last thing on the list.

 

[Tonguez]

No, that's not the last thing on the list.

oh the geometric Alien landing pads? - that explains how the White apes got there

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

No, but it's an interesting question. Are you implying modern society knows for a fact all armor and weapons used in the Neolithic were made of stone, and do you think fantasy fiction about the period needs to conform to that notion?

No, but it's an interesting question. Are you implying modern society knows for a fact all armor and weapons used in the Neolithic were made of stone, and do you think fantasy fiction about the period needs to conform to that notion?

We are not talking about real history here. We are talking about middle earth and a fantasy Neolithic the OP wants.

 

[Hriston]

We are not talking about real history here. We are talking about middle earth and a fantasy Neolithic the OP wants.

Well, clearly, I didn't understand what the OP wanted.

I have been nerding out a little over neolithic archaeology, from Gobekli tepe to Catalhoyuk and so on, and I was thinking about how you could do D&D in (a fantastical version of) that time period.

By the bolded, I thought the OP meant the literal span of time in which the Neolithic period occurred, roughly 10,000 BC until about 4,500 BC or later. If someone asks me about fantasy set in that range of time, the first thing that comes to my mind are the stories of JRR Tolkien. Further discussion in this thread and my own discussions with other people outside of this thread have helped me understand that, by neolithic, the OP was talking about genre, rather than literal time period, and that although the features of this neolithic genre were not well defined in the OP itself, Tolkien's legendarium does not share enough of them to merit inclusion in the discussion.

 

[Reynard]

Well, clearly, I didn't understand what the OP wanted.

By the bolded, I thought the OP meant the literal span of time in which the Neolithic period occurred, roughly 10,000 BC until about 4,500 BC or later. If someone asks me about fantasy set in that range of time, the first thing that comes to my mind are the stories of JRR Tolkien. Further discussion in this thread and my own discussions with other people outside of this thread have helped me understand that, by neolithic, the OP was talking about genre, rather than literal time period, and that although the features of this neolithic genre were not well defined in the OP itself, Tolkien's legendarium does not share enough of them to merit inclusion in the discussion.

Tolkien's work doesn't take place "in that time" in any meaningful sense. It's a weird hill to.die on.