Bronze or Stone age equipment...

[Persell]

any stat mods for these anywhere?

 

[Samiel]

Stone age would enable an action at best, with a dice penalty. Small exceptions exist; flint tools would be very good at the specific task of cutting things, but would be prone to breakage, for example.


Bronze is a very broad category due to the length of that "period", but might either allow the action with no bonus, or provide +1, I'd say.


Best to abstract it, but if people are desperate for stats, apply a penalty for ancient crappy equipment and nothing for basic tools, as normal. If they don't have the tools, they can't do the job, chances are.

 

[Arthur]

Exalted is on bronze level technology, I believe. In the core book, when regarding the Fair Folk, the book says the huge majority of weapons are made of bronze, doesn't it?

 

[Ledaal Kajiri]

Actually...no, Exalted is not Bronze age tech with the exception of some barbarian groups. Most weapons in Creation are made of bronze...or steel. It mostly depends on whether its a civilized nation or backwater barbarians like say, Ice Walkers, or some such. The Realm, Lookshy and the majority of the River Province, most of the civilized South, and even much of the North, they use steel. Some backwater areas of the Hundred Kingdoms, groups like the Linowan, Haltans, and many of the islands of the West, as well as many barbarian groups, tend to use bronze or sometimes even stone. Chirascuro often uses first age glass in place of such, as they have an easy source in their many collapsed skyscrapers, and it  is as strong as steel if treated properly. This does mean that many of those who have the closest contact with Fair Folk are using bronze, as they are on the outskirts of Creation...but steel weapons and tools are the norm in the civilized world.

 

[Jukashi]

Additionally, due to the prevalence of Fair Folk at the edge of Creation, most socieites can probably work iron, too.


If you're looking for stats for stone/bronze age equipment, the only thing I can thing of currently is the aztecy sword-clubs used by Dragon Kings, but I don't think they've been converted to 2nd. Ed. yet.

 

[Ledaal Kajiri]

Note also that there are Thaumaturgical rituals that can harden even wood to the strength of iron...and that Thaumaturges aren't particullarly uncommon. Even societies with lower tech can use a bit of mortal magic to get around such limitations.

 

[Persell]

Some backwater areas of the Hundred Kingdoms' date=' groups like the Linowan, Haltans, and many of the islands of the West, as well as many barbarian groups, tend to use bronze or sometimes even stone.[/quote']
Big Haltan geek. (My last four characters have been Haltan.) Have to interject.


The Haltan and the Linowan aren't exactly backwater places.  Both nations trade with the Guild, which gives them access to materials and items that they normally wouldn't be able to craft.  War boomerangs, one of the standard Haltan weapons, are made of steel, and the Linowan have ties to the Realm, which allows them to have slashing swords and arrow- and spearheads made of steel alloys.  Halta itself has 53 light implosion bows, 32 of which are powered by alchemical reagents and can thusly be used by the unExalted.


I would imagine many places in Creation are like this, no matter what their technological level should "rightly" be.  There are countless First Age ruins around where weapons, armor and other technological advances can be picked up. A good example of this is the Haslanti.  Their iceboat technology was reverse-engineered from First Age ice ships they found while following the dreams of a tribal shaman.  Granted, the Lunars helped them do it, but Lunars have their paws (or claws or tails or whatever they personally possess) in the development of a lot of barbarian tribes through the Thousand Streams River. This gives a large portion of those tribes access to equipment and ideas that they shouldn't have developed so early in their society's evolution.


I'd take "Bronze Age technology" with a grain of salt.  The Guild, the Realm, the Silver Pact and random encounters in the wilderness with First Age remnants can screw this up without much effort at all.