Pre historic RP

>>50467154
Try Anaboria first

>>50467154
>The party, thinking they are rolling a standard WHFRP soldier template are in fact going to be a group of young hunters about to embark on their first hunt with the adults

Do NOT do this. Nothing will annoy your players more than a bait and switch, if you want to run a prehistoric game then tell your players up front that this is what you're doing.

>>50467154
Please explain it to me, because I'm apparently missing something.
What's the point of running setting X, if you are going to make it a secret for your players?

>>50467154
Make taming animals difficult, but rewarding. The first guy to tame a flying dino big enough to ride is gonna get a massive leap in possible means of attack and movement. Same for swimming animals, and less so for land creatures(that stand in for horses).

Basically make animals worth it to tame

>>50469318
Taming animals should not be considered a one-and-done deal, because it never is. No wild animal should ever be one roll away from perfect and eternal obedience. An animal should never be treated as a piece of equipment that the player has absolute control over. Every animal, especially every non-domesticated animal, is never more than one bad day away from fighting you or running away forever.

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>>50467154
> Pic sort of related minus the dinos.
>minus the dinos
What are you, a fucking casual?

>>50467154
The Ice Age was a time when the fantasy convention of multiple sapient species sharing the world really was true. Get some other members of genus Homo in there.

>>50467154
OG! Unearthed Edition already exists.

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Just going to leave this here.

>>50469318
>>50469740
Ive actually been cooking up an animal taming system where you've got the animals original instincts and reaction towards you on a circular matrix, and then you deflect it around the matrix based on how you try to tame it and that dictates your final relationship with it, with each relationship having its own limited set of commands that could be taught depending on the strength of your bond.

Skill determines possible degree of deflection, with an initial random roll giving the encounter a nudge so you dont get to metagame natural reactions.

It sounds complicated, but when I had it mapped out it fit, as a completed sub-mechanic, on two pages.

>>50467369
>Do NOT do this. Nothing will annoy your players more than a bait and switch, if you want to run a prehistoric game then tell your players up front that this is what you're doing.
This x 10,000 B.C.

>>50469318
>The first guy to tame a flying dino big enough to ride is gonna get a massive leap in possible means of attack and movement.

Scientifically, Pterosaurs glided more than they flew, and almost certainly couldn't carry anything as heavy as a person. Or if you're using fantasy physics, maybe they _could_ fly with a rider, but you could arbitrarily choose to make them violently dislike being handled.

The point is that you don't have to give the players flying mounts if you don't want to.