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<blockquote data-quote="Barcode" data-source="post: 534485" data-attributes="member: 3165">My D&amp;D campaign world is set in the far-future, well after the fall of the technological age of man.&nbsp; I have elements that account for the presence of the other races, the presence of magic and magical beasts, and other fantasy items.&nbsp; I am trying to get suggestions on artifacts and ruins that would have survived.So, if mankind were suddenly plunged into a dark age, and left that way for say, five or ten thousand years, what would remain in North America (or indeed the world in general) of the current state of civilization? I am assuming no major climate change, although I am prepared to have raised and then lowered the seas to assist in wiping out the remnants of the major cities.&nbsp; I can also explain things away with an apocalypse, but I am trying to stay away from radiation, mutants, and other baggage that comes from post-apocalyptic settings.&nbsp; I am more interested in sparsely flavoring the world with clues like an eroded but still recognizable Mt. Rushmore, or things like railroad tunnels and sheer cut mountain passes (sans railroad, of course) rather than having the PC's find Manhattan as a mass of skeletal skyscrapers.I am figuring that just about all the metal would rust away unless it is preserved in an airless environment somehow.&nbsp; Similarly concrete should crumble to dust, wood rots, etc.What else would be left?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barcode, post: 534485, member: 3165"] My D&D campaign world is set in the far-future, well after the fall of the technological age of man. I have elements that account for the presence of the other races, the presence of magic and magical beasts, and other fantasy items. I am trying to get suggestions on artifacts and ruins that would have survived. So, if mankind were suddenly plunged into a dark age, and left that way for say, five or ten thousand years, what would remain in North America (or indeed the world in general) of the current state of civilization? I am assuming no major climate change, although I am prepared to have raised and then lowered the seas to assist in wiping out the remnants of the major cities. I can also explain things away with an apocalypse, but I am trying to stay away from radiation, mutants, and other baggage that comes from post-apocalyptic settings. I am more interested in sparsely flavoring the world with clues like an eroded but still recognizable Mt. Rushmore, or things like railroad tunnels and sheer cut mountain passes (sans railroad, of course) rather than having the PC's find Manhattan as a mass of skeletal skyscrapers. I am figuring that just about all the metal would rust away unless it is preserved in an airless environment somehow. Similarly concrete should crumble to dust, wood rots, etc. What else would be left? [/QUOTE]

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