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Originally Posted by buzz  D&D is not a middle age setting. D&D is D&D. |
Yeah, a genuine middle ages setting wouldn't have all of this "upward mobility" nonsense where a humble peasant can, a few hundred thousand experience points later, become some sort of cross between landed gentry, culture hero and rock star. The very level system that proclaims that anybody can become a world-shaker with enough experience points kind of gives the lie to a genuine Middle Ages Europe dynamic. It's
very modern First World in nature.
The whole wish-fulfillment factor of starting out a peasant and ending up a warrior-king is much more fairy tale than historical fantasy. And fairy tales are pretty dang universal.
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