[Rq-rules] Re: Nomads & Barbarians

[William Molendyk]

--- Styopa <styopa1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Me too, but then I wondered where AmerInds fit into that.  I'd always felt
> that the tribes of Prax had been fairly closely based on Native American
> Plains tribes - ala the Lakota, Kiowa, and Apache who (in general terms)
> herded nothing in the agricultural sense of 'domestication' except perhaps
> horses.

In RQ terms most amerinds were Barbarians for the vast majority of their
existance.  Those horse didn't exist in the Americas until it was brought over
by Europeans and some escaped into the wild.  the natives were quick to exploit
to this wonderful new resource.  Even thier legends changed so that theh horse
was 'always' there.

Bill Molendyk