: 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!
Now, now. I think it's acceptable to believe that, say, Myth humans have to go to the bathroom, even though you can't sneak past the gate-guarding archers on Into the Breach by waiting a few hours until they drop their bows and run behind a bush. :-)
: 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.
: 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.
: 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 :).
Ready to hate GURPS more? :-)
The Axe Age is a term only used by and applicable to humans, and GURPS says explicitly that it was prehistoric, when man was a "simple beast." To the Trow, it was the Golden Age. Think of "Axe" not necessarily as a handled implement for chopping wood, but (maybe) as those primitive sharpened flint things prehistoric man used.
--SiliconDream
