01-13-2021, 02:51 AM
Greg Wrote:You would also have the problem of Stone Age level technology, as described in your blog on the Burrower Wars. If the humans and Brute Men had only mastered stone tools, then you wouldn't have copper, bronze, or iron weapons or tools of any kind. Most of the weapons, armor and equipment in the D&D rulebooks wouldn't exist, and unless you were a corrupt shaman or a warlock with a pact with a Sleeping One, magic would be limited in availability and power.
This might be avoided by mixing in some Mystara fan material... Geoff Gander's Lhomarr, if I understand correctly, is a 'lost and forgotten' human civilization, Atlantis-style, existing several millennia before Mystara's Blackmoor - so perhaps in the right time period?
(Actually I think the given time for Lhomarr is somewhat earlier than what the HW set gives for the Burrowers - but this could be changed, or a successor civilization, like Gondor as a successor to Numenor, might exist in the age of the Burrower Wars.)
The HW set in my view compresses the timeline for humanity too much - the state of Blackmoor before they find the City of the Gods/Beagle is too advanced to be just a millennium or so from the Stone Age, especially given how old Thonia is in Uther's time.