D&D Memes

Hey, that's not a bad idea...

I suppose that covers the bases.

I feel epic after reading all of those...

I've got the cure for you!

im not sure if this qualifies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTJiDeP0Wv8

If I remember my timeline right, "we" started using tools at least 250,000 years ago. Along with very simple and crude stone tools we eventually figured out to make fire and cook meat. The better diet was probably necessary for homo erectus to develop, the first homo species and they started to actually build structures, clothing, and then spread beyond the savannas of Africa. There's about a dozen other homo species until homo sapien shows up about 150,000-200,000 years ago. Then there's loads of interbreeding, a natural disaster or six (including that time Toga erupted and nearly wiped us all out) and eventually there's only homo sapien (with a salient mix of other species' genetics) left. Somewhere in all that mess we figured out how to turn grunts and squeaks into language and stories started soon after that. Stories gave us a way to pass information across generations and then we were baking bread and (probably) singing songs. Then about 10,000 years ago we started settling into three or four river valley civilizations (Egypt, India, and one in China I think?) and then came writing and civilization and all this other muckity muck.

But for about 95% of the existence of the homo genus we were nomadic hunter-gather storytellers. It would be interesting to see what those nomadic bands would have made of D&D.

Possibly relevant:

Throw these miniatures on your table... your players won't expect them.