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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 9413232" data-attributes="member: 2067">Let's get a little specific with it.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Barbarian. Easy. No notes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The axes might be stone, but they work the same mechanically.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bard. Also easy. Oral histories and musical traditions are as old as people. Might be fewer stringed instruments, and I'd maybe lean into the idea of bards as history-keepers and story-tellers, for that good campfire exposition.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cleric. Not too hard. There's no organized temples or anything, but what if the cleric was kind of the vanguard of civilization? It is clerics who know and teach farming, who study the cycles of the seasons, who figure out how to preserve grain, how to nurture communities. Many might serve powerful leaders, or BE powerful leaders themselves. Clerics are the ones who know how to brew beer. Early neolithic farming is their jam.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Druid. If the cleric serves civilization, druids are the mediators between people and the wild world around them.  Shamans. Probably very important, but there might be some cleric/druid rivalry as the tensions between foraging and agriculture form a bit of a conflict line in the setting.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fighter. Also not too hard. If we keep this agriculture/foraging dichotomy, Fighters land on the agriculture side. Maybe they're organized into armies and have access to primitive metals (since full-time metallurgy should require the access to food that agriculture gives). This also works for the iconic cleric in heavy armor: yes, but only where the fields grow.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Monk. Pretty simple. The idea of an organized ascetic group is a little anachronistic, but possible, and might work very similar to how fighters work - they require an agricultural community to sustain them. If clerics work with the people of the community, maybe monks are approaching the gods more directly, or trying to become them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Paladin. Okay, very medieval vibes, but if we riff on the idea of an oath, we can get something very neolithic. There's very little law, no real enforcers, no way to ensure that people will do what they promise to do. Enter the paladin, whose oath is unbreakable, who can be trusted when no one else can. Definitely part of the agricultural world.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ranger. Yeah, pretty simple. The best hunters, trackers, and scouts of the foragers are rangers. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rogue. Also simple. Probably connected to the agricultural world, but not exactly allied with it - rogues steal the grain, or are early traders and merchants.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sorcerer. Easy. Obvious. Magic is around and gives some people powers. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Warlock. Also not too hard. It's a magical world filled with magical creatures, warlocks swear pacts with those creatures. They might be linked to the agricultural world - to a world of oaths and agreements. No one's ever seen a contract.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wizard. A little wrinkly with the spellbook, but we can lean into the idea of wizards as masters of the magic of writing. They are the only literate people in this world, definitely linked with the agriculturalists, and might carry around clay tablets or just draw with ochre or charcoal on the walls. Spellbooks are tattooed on your skin. </li> </ul></blockquote>

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