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D&D Note to Self
Dec. 31st, 2011 01:06 amStayed up late watching a history program with Dad, about various truly ancient civilizations that show that there's been a lot of history going on for a lot longer than just 5,000 years, and how things just get wiped out, both by time and in sudden disasters.
As an example of the sort of things that could happen, they mentioned in passing the big meteor impact in the wilds of Russia in 1910. Dad said it took about ten years for folks to actually get up there and check it out, because of how isolated it was- and there were trees that had been knocked down for miles around the impact site. A huge impact that could devastate a place- but nobody noticed because it was so far away.
So what if that sort of thing went largely unnoticed by the rest of the world, until whatever had been driven away from the impact showed up? Could be a tribe of people heretofore unknown, or something like the Others in the Song of Ice and Fire books- a long unknown danger returning. Or a combo of both, and adventurers get sent out to investigate, and eventually find whatever's driving all this trouble towards their homes. Maybe it's not a meteor strike, but something else went wrong- or the meteor was symptomatic of some other big-bad or unintended consequences, depending on the cosmology you'd go with.
As an example of the sort of things that could happen, they mentioned in passing the big meteor impact in the wilds of Russia in 1910. Dad said it took about ten years for folks to actually get up there and check it out, because of how isolated it was- and there were trees that had been knocked down for miles around the impact site. A huge impact that could devastate a place- but nobody noticed because it was so far away.
So what if that sort of thing went largely unnoticed by the rest of the world, until whatever had been driven away from the impact showed up? Could be a tribe of people heretofore unknown, or something like the Others in the Song of Ice and Fire books- a long unknown danger returning. Or a combo of both, and adventurers get sent out to investigate, and eventually find whatever's driving all this trouble towards their homes. Maybe it's not a meteor strike, but something else went wrong- or the meteor was symptomatic of some other big-bad or unintended consequences, depending on the cosmology you'd go with.
