The Fantasy Trip in The Stone Age

[Jim Kane]

This evening, after looking through the gaming file cabinet for something else, I started looking over the beautiful cover art for GURPS: Time Travel - which features a fantastic Pre-historic scene, painted by John Zeleznik - which led me to begin looking for my *antique* copy of Metagaming's: Sticks and Stones, by David Ray, which does not seem to be in my file-cabinet any longer (arrrgh!), and a thought began to occur to me, so I thought I would bring it to the forum.

I imagine that the vast majority of people play TFT as some sort of a cross between an Iron/Bronze age meets Arthurian/Tolkien/Howard time-period; but I am wondering if anyone else is interested in TFT adventuring in something along the lines of the seven book, Edgar Rice Burroughs', Pellucidar series; being set inside a hollow-earth, during an imagined and fantastical Stone-Age period.

How do others feel about this type of trope-filled literary/fiction Stone Age period for TFT adventuring as a campaign or adventure setting?

Thoughts?

JK

[Rick_Smith]

Hi Jim, everyone.
When SJ was writing up GURPS: Man to Man, he set it in a Stone Age campaign, I believe. (Simple combat, no magic, etc.)

I think that the back ground would be too simple for my group tho.

Warm regards, Rick.

[Kobold Curry Chef]

I think that would be a very good setting for TFT, either magic-free or magic-full.

[larsdangly]

I really like that TFT is exciting, fun to play, and well balanced for tech levels from clubs, spears and bolas to pikes, arquebuses and fencing masters, with or without magic. It is kind of miraculous how hard it is to find a 'mode' of TFT combat that feels broken.

[Skarg]

You could check out GURPS Ice Age and convert its mechanical bits to TFT easily enough. It's a really good book.

[larsdangly]

Agreed; GURPS Ice Age is exceptional.

[Dave Crowell]

I would certainly play a stone age TFT. It would offer quite a change from the usual fantasy options.