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IRE #14: Homo floresiensis

Our IRE this time around keys off of some new revelations about those mysterious "hobbit sized" skeletons found on an Indonesian island last year. As mentioned in a previous blog entry, Carl Zimmer's blog has a nice recap of the biology and the speculation thereof.

So what can you do with this?

Let's see...lost race, extinct in our world, but perhaps not in the world of Adventure! Transplant them to an even more remote location (a New Guinea valley system) say, and send the characters in there to track down a lost artifact, temple or what have you.

The hobbits would make very interesting guardians for such a place. I'm reminded of the "pygmy zombies" from THE MUMMY RETURNS for ideas on sending these folk after the adventurers.

A whimsical, humorous encounter with one of them...could soon change in tone as a swarm of the hobbits come after the player characters.

Posted by Jvstin at March 4, 2005 5:35 PM