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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7870540" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>It is very interesting to me what people twig on when it comes to what they find "out of place" in fantasy art.</p><p></p><p>I've always been a bit of a buff about sailing ships. Just really like them. And then, I started actually looking at the ships that were actually being depicted in fantasy RPG's. And, for the most part, they were 100% dead wrong. Like, "Columbus flying in a Spitfire" kind of wrong. Multidecked, multi-masted, ships of the line complete with gun ports sailing into Waterdeep. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> Things that would not have looked out of place during the 19th century (and quite possibly into the early 20th century) being sailed by orcs. That sort of thing.</p><p></p><p>Drives me straight up the wall. It really does because it's quite obvious that the artist has done zero research and basically drawn whatever the heck he felt like and plunked it into the RPG book. Grrr.</p><p></p><p>OTOH, seeing women soldiers (Boudica anyone?) or various ethnicities ( a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke" target="_blank">Black Samurai perhaps?</a>) do not phase me in the slightest. Mostly because I can fine examples of these kinds of exceptions. Which, if I can find examples, means they probably weren't as rare as one might think.</p><p></p><p>But a schooner? Yeah, if you have that level of technology that lets you build that ship, you're not in the Middle Ages anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7870540, member: 22779"] It is very interesting to me what people twig on when it comes to what they find "out of place" in fantasy art. I've always been a bit of a buff about sailing ships. Just really like them. And then, I started actually looking at the ships that were actually being depicted in fantasy RPG's. And, for the most part, they were 100% dead wrong. Like, "Columbus flying in a Spitfire" kind of wrong. Multidecked, multi-masted, ships of the line complete with gun ports sailing into Waterdeep. :erm: Things that would not have looked out of place during the 19th century (and quite possibly into the early 20th century) being sailed by orcs. That sort of thing. Drives me straight up the wall. It really does because it's quite obvious that the artist has done zero research and basically drawn whatever the heck he felt like and plunked it into the RPG book. Grrr. OTOH, seeing women soldiers (Boudica anyone?) or various ethnicities ( a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke]Black Samurai perhaps?[/url]) do not phase me in the slightest. Mostly because I can fine examples of these kinds of exceptions. Which, if I can find examples, means they probably weren't as rare as one might think. But a schooner? Yeah, if you have that level of technology that lets you build that ship, you're not in the Middle Ages anymore. [/QUOTE]
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