What would RPGs be without ancient things?
There’s hardly any games where Ancients don’t feature… Twilight 2000? James Bond?
But otherwise, Sci-Fi (Twilight’s Peak), Fantasy (lost shrines, hidden valleys, dread isles, stupidly long histories), Horror (most stuff for Cthulhu) - Ancients have been there since the hobby started.
Let’s face it, investigating places or finding things or fighting things that are hundreds, thousands or even millions of years old is what drives many great adventures.
As an aside this also reminds me of the bit in one of the new Star Wars films where Han says it’s all true, like it wasn’t just 30-odd years ago. Thatcher, Reagan, Deeley-Boppers… it’s all true…
And of course ancient civilisations feature in my favourite D&D adventure Night’s Dark Terror.
Plus ancient things make me feel less old…
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