RPGaDay 2025 #5 Ancient

Adventures involving the Ancients are rather common. It seems like the Ancients always knew better than modern people.

It's a trope that crosses genres. Many fantasy settings have some sort of Golden Age in their past. Science fiction is full of xeno-archaeology, digging up ancient galactic empires. Some people even go so far as to presume that something similar applies to the real world. There are people who believed that the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians or some other ancient culture had things all figured out. Then there are those who believe that there are truly ancient civilizations like Atlantis, or Lemuria that knew cosmic or magical secrets that have since been lost.