<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Lev,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>It sounds like you have a deep grounding in the area -- why not write up a "primitive cultures for the simulationist" background piece? It would scratch your itch and help anyone else who wants a similar depth of treatment.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">For my game I'm happy to have something better detailed than "I selected the barbarian character class and dress in furs, so I'm primitive and know nothing about nothing."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Steve</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div> ***</div><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left:
5px;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:54:31 +1000<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:lev@rpgreview.net" href="mailto:lev@rpgreview.net">lev@rpgreview.net</a><br>To: "RuneQuest Rules" <<a ymailto="mailto:runequest@rpgreview.net" href="mailto:runequest@rpgreview.net">runequest@rpgreview.net</a>><br>Subject: [Runequest] Literate Neolithics?<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:2e06f556bef9dfaacf62ef07ce4aea25.squirrel@webmail.rpgreview.net" href="mailto:2e06f556bef9dfaacf62ef07ce4aea25.squirrel@webmail.rpgreview.net">2e06f556bef9dfaacf62ef07ce4aea25.squirrel@webmail.rpgreview.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<br><br>Hi Runequesters,<br><br><br>Well, I've almost finished
wading through the *huge* document that is<br>RuneQuest 6th edition and there's one particular thing that has stuck in<br>my maw over the past few weeks... The professions for those available from<br>Primitive cultures (actually I feel the same about some of the others as<br>well).<br><br>What really caught my attention was in character generation when a player<br>decided that they want to be a "Primitive Scholar". OK, that's a little<br>weird... But then when they selected their professional skills and chose<br>"Literacy", I had to say 'no' (much to their chagrin).<br><br>Historically, writing only developed around c3200 BCE. Arguably around<br>6000 BCE there was some proto-writing glyphs, but even that is not in the<br>realm of the neolithic, which is what the primitive cultures represent.<br><br>Indeed, as a whole, I must confess that the only edition of RQ which has<br>struck me as getting the social formation side of things "just right" is<br>the
3rd edition, where they were introduced.<br><br>I'd love to know who was the clever person who pretty much lifted Lewis<br>Morgan's model of social development (albeit splitting barbarism with<br>nomadism) and transplanted it to the RQ system. :)<br><br>All the best,<br><br>Lev<br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>