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Original post by Inmate2993
Neolithic & Early Mesopotamian civilization hasn''t been done yet. Though, maybe because the choice of weaponry is limitted to rocks and feces.

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i think that''s a very stereotypical kind of thinking. they are ancient doesn''t mean they use rocks and feces only. i believe there''s gotta be something more.

back to topic: i hate it when they combine future and past. MM series is one of them, some japanese RPGs...i just hate looking at characters bashing with swords and spears while they have guns. it just doesn''t look appropriate.

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Original post by Inmate2993
Neolithic & Early Mesopotamian civilization hasn''t been done yet. Though, maybe because the choice of weaponry is limitted to rocks and feces.

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Actually, some of the "ancient primitive" civilizations had shockingly advanced weapons technologies. Ever heard of the atlatl? It''s a short grooved stick that you use as a lever to help you throw spears. It chucks them helluva far, and helluva fast. There were also stone axes and knives - even "swords" made by embedding sharp obsidian flakes in a line along a piece of wood. Remember, ancient Americans - even the plainsdwelling hunter-gatherers - took down two-ton bison, and six or seven-ton mammoths. How''s that for a battle?

Making a rock weapon isn''t as easy as you might think either. Modern archaeologists have fits trying to reproduce Clovis spearpoints, with their distinctive nocking grooves. It took time and skill to craft those spear and arrowheads, and it took trade across vast distances to get the raw materials.

In Michigan, natives smelted copper from rich ore veins. In Europe, the Ice Man had a bronze axe and was probably crossing the mountains to trade goods with villages on the other side. And this is to say nothing of the Mound Builder culture in the 1200''s midwest, or the Anasazi cliff dwellers, and don''t even get me started on the central and south American empires...

I think the pre-Columbian Americas, or a fictional equivalent thereof, would make a fascinating setting for an epic adventure. For one thing, it becomes much more believable that characters can craft their own weapons. Also, you really would get "treasure" in the form of meat, bones, sinew, and hide from "monsters" you kill. You could have a profoundly different magic system involving shamanism, herbalism, and ritual trances and drug use. Strikingly different cultures could meet and interact - even go to war. A wide variety of climates could be traversed - from the jungles of Brazil to the deserts of Mexico, to the plains of the Midwest and the icy lands of northern Canada and Alaska. Plus, you could work with some Native Americans as consultants to make sure you get things right and portray people fairly, and therefore get a PR boost among indigenous activists. Hell, what''s not to like?

Just tossing some things out, from an archaeological perspective.

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