: A Trow's eyes and ears and mouth may be their primary
: weak point, against archers and such. A helmet can
: cover the only parts of their body which their skin
: can't protect.
Hmm, a helmet that covers eyes, ears and mouth. I'd like
to see that :D I'll make sure my archers aim for the eyes
next time I play Friends Like These. No need for the
zerks, those defenseless Trow should drop like trees now
I know their weakness!
: Well, he did say "recorded history". And the
: Axe Age is prehistoric.
Actually, Axe Age only implies there were lots of things
around that were used for chopping wood & stuff. It doesn't
imply what they were made of. As tempered iron is superior
to flint or bronze, I see no reason that the axes couldn't
have been iron. Anyway, bronze implies metal-working skill.
: This is possible. What I think the Forest Giants are
: complaining about, though, is that the Trow *first*
: developed ironworking and everyone else learned it
: from them. So iron's soul was already irretrievably
: poisoned by the time humans started using it. The
: younger races can't be blamed for borrowing an
: existing innovation--it's the Trow's fault for
: corrupting iron in the first place and giving everyone
: else the idea.
Makes sense to me. Also, the FG's are insular creatures,
and may not know or care much about genocide in the world
outside the woods. They _would_ care about who first
invented the axe, though. And if the first axes were iron,
invented by the Trow...
Remember, too, the Trow know a lot about chopping trees
down, as shown by the quote about pine trees that never
regrow. The Axe Age could be called that because it was
then that the Trow cleared vast tracts of forest to fuel
their furnaces.
Let me wildly speculate further. Perhaps the Trow had
major wars every 1000 years because it was then that they
moved to a new forest, populated by other folk who objected
to losing their trees.
: You'll notice in GURPS that the Trow started using iron
: about halfway through the Age of Reason. And that the
: first mention of human use of iron ("while human
: knowledge of iron and magic expanded as well")
: comes just after this.
Damn, I didn't read this before flying off on my voyage
of imagination above. So please don't bother to shoot
it down in flames - Gurps has already done so. I'm
beginning to hate Gurps :(. WTH, I'll post this anyway,
cause it was fun to write it :).
-IronDuke
