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It's tough because we have a lot of bleedover and those ages don't exactly end when one happe s.

Much appreciated!

Legit one of the best cities in the world

@DesksAndDorks so true, one of 3 cities w 24/7 public transit

Also some incredible food

Always ALWAYS looking for a good mage hunter - Magic dampening iron wielding mage slayers are a win for me

Dude same!! I don't know ow why but I love that whole vibe

I'm sorry it took so long to make!

I'm nit sure if it will answer all of your specific questions but you are in luck. ruclips.net/video/nnQcC7Bs7vk/видео.htmlsi=QaEAgIYVtMmO46xs

Which is odd because the conflicts for a united German state are really well documented

@@DesksAndDorks yeah and them viewing the HRE as germany is also weird since it was more similar to a feudal EU lol but ye a general sentiment amongst germans is that austrians are just germans who speak ''wrong'' german (that's also why i am in favour of granting the austrian dialect language status liek Luxemburgian)

@trystanfranziskus that is really odd. Also the idea that the hre wasn't a bunch of unique states is baffling.

I have not heard of this game! Tell me more

I had to scroll down to find the RQ mention. RQ is _the_ bronze age inspired system if anyone is looking for one. And it is a pretty good system too. Glorantha, the base setting for RQ, is a very well thought out world to play in.

Many folks have mentioned or brought up rune quest here. It's a system I'm familiar with but haven't played which is why it did not get the mention

It's the service I provide

@@DesksAndDorks Battle tube.

If you think about it we really need to be the battle tube we want to see in the world.

Honestly it would be peak performance.

Thank you!

I can! They were the scourge of most empires capable of unloading arrow after arrow during combat and riding for hours in harsh terrain. They remained a prominent part of scythian culture even after the bronze age and (this is apocraphyl) may have been one of the inspirations for the myth of the Amazons!

Familiar with yes! But I haven't played it or reas the game which is why it did not get a mention here

YOOOOOOOOO spells taking the iron in your blood goes HARD as a concept.

Lol wut

So Glorantha is a game I'm familiar with by reputation, but as I have not played, it isn't mentioned in the video.

I have never heard that theory. It is an intriguing one Gondor does have a lot of parallels to Babylon in it's decline.

Thank you! It was a blast to make, so I'm really happy it's being received so well.

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​@@DesksAndDorks Do you do finger painting afterwards?

No, you've got to get to three comments firs for the finger painting. At one comment, the best I can do is hook you up with the supplies to make a macaroni plate art.

​@ You know what?Nothing and I mean nothing gets me in the mood for some Bronze Age RPG like the DM giving me corporate HR speak about offensive behaviour, stereotypes and gender bias during Akkadian Empire.

So....is that a no to the macaroni plate?

1000 percent true.

@DesksAndDorks studying canaiform myself. Literacy is seen like being a computer programmer today. I don't know if you've gotten to this yet. However, language in the bronze age is completely different than what we would think today. The cuneiform writing system was adopted by every "civilized" culture except Egypt. Being someone considered "literate", you basically needed to know at least three languages. Because if the Babylonian loan words inside Akkadian. It was also proper to use characters as a symbol or phonetic interpretation (kind of like in Runes). If you were literate, and you are writing something down. You are usually making most things to the best of your ability. Meaning... Even an average literate person might me completely incomprehensible to a beginner as the beginner probably doesn't know the Elamites' word for bread, and you are also using the Kings script because it is a record for the Kingdom. Then there is the divine script for *everything* as writing temple records, is different. Also the shear scale of the bronze age... Some of the earliest tablets are almost over a few thousand years old. Kind of like how low Latin became every romance language, and liturgical Latin... That process happened all over the Middle East.

It is a glorious time for adventure ngl

Reject mining. Return to nomad.

Oh hard disagree it's so much fun to put unhinged stuff in SOTDL. Granted I make games for a living so it may be easier for me then the average soul but still it's a blast to do.

EXACTLY!!! it's an age of non stop adventure

Loooool well I hope you enjoy it!

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I wouldn't say things didn't change just that advancements were more nuanced. A ton got done in philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences that paved rhe way for iron age innovations.

It's the scholarly term 😆

Bronx Age: Ayyyy I'm making tin here!!! But legit if you like this we've got a whole Playlist of these vids if you're interested!

@DesksAndDorks I don't always comment, but I watch all your videos. If not as soon as they're up, within a day or so. Love this channel.

That makes sense! I usually recognize our repeat commenter's. Thanks for the support!

My call is.....not fighting the donkey carts regardless of what they are called.

Thank you oh great elephant!

If you're looking for a system that feels that Agon is very good

What about Runequest?

I've heard good things but haven't tried it myself so I can't speak on it.

​@@DesksAndDorks Ahh I'd just assumed it wasn't being mentioned on the vid because you wanted to focus on the historical side of things. For anyone wanting to play in a Bronze Age fantasy setting, rather than trying to build something custom or base it more on actual history, I don't think you can do any better than Runequest's Glorantha. It's the setting for a game that's been around since the 70s - so there's a ton of history and many versions to try out.

Your offering to the algorithm gods. Is appreciated

That sounds very much in keeping with the pulp Sci fi of the 50s. I dig it man

@@DesksAndDorks suggestions on how to balance power armor versus medieval knights is welcome

​@@kadmiigive the medieval knights guns.

@@kadmii Either use magic enchantments... Or don't. Simply don't balance it. Make those suits of power armor mythical things. Maybe they need blood sacrifice to keep going, such is the power they might need (an idea from one of my own settings).

I think all of these suggestions are fine but don't necessarily add to the beliveability of your world. If I were you I would make it so such power armor is both very expensive to make (or impossible to make new ones because the tech is lost) and very taxing on the wielder. In doing so you turn the power armor into a liability as much as an asset. An empire may have 2-4 suits at most and if they lost one during battle it would be a crippling blow to national pride and their military ambitions so such weapons would only be deployed when absolutely needed. Just my 2 cents.

It is time!!!!

Be the change you want to see in the world. Build your own tube armor!

@DesksAndDorks true!

I expect updates

One of my all time favorite military units! It actually made an appearance in Civ!

Our alphabet (or at least decent swathes of it) are derived from Phoenician. While it may not have influenced grammar it most certainly influenced both our language and many others.

@DesksAndDorks in linguistics, the writing system (alphabets, logographies, etc) is differentiated from the language itself as spoken or signed. as i said, yeah, the writing system english uses is ultimately derived from the phoenician writing system. in more detail, the phoenician script which only included consonant sounds (given phoenician grammar and small amount of vowel sounds it was easy for them to guess accurately what word was represented by what series of consnants) was taken by the greeks and modified to be an alphabet, which was later adopted from them in the italian peninsula and modified, most notably by the etruscans and then romans, giving us the latin script which preserved some weird letters like Q (originally meant for a more guttural sound in phoenician) or C (used as a G sound by phoenicians and greeks but the etruscans didnt differentiate between G and K sounds and in latin it was used for both until people just invented the letter G based on it). and english got the latin script after being christianized (though some runic letters remained before the printing press made them inconvenient to use). HOWEVER, english as the language that is actually spoken is a germanic language (=thousands of years ago it was the same language as german, dutch, norwegian, gothic, etc. but as peoples moved and dialects diverged they became seperate languages with many similarities) with lots of french and latin loanwords. theres a few other sources for its loanwords like greek but phoenician doesnt really feature there. if english as a spoken language (not the alphabet) has any phoenician influence it's heavily filtered through latin

I wish you the best on your world building my friend!

I wish you the luck on your world building!

I'm still partial to my medieval settings but man I've come.to love the Bronze age

⁠@@DesksAndDorksa medievalist preferring their era of study?! Well I’m shocked 🤣. I just discovered this channel recently, and love the work you do on bringing the eye of an historian to the RPG space.

@briant7134 I know can you imagine me liking the thing I studied.

@briant7134 but legit thank you for the support it means a ton

medieval has no inherent sense of mystery, while bronze age is highly mysterious