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Bullseye lanterns, with their distinctive glass frontpiece, did not become items people could generally acquire until about the mid 18th century. What broad category does "mid-18th century" belong to? Because that seems pretty late to be "Renaissance", let alone "Medieval." As noted, it exists...

Perhaps, when a person speaks in the generic, they aren't making a personal attack against you.

... One of the lanterns has belt loops. It's specifically meant to be worn attached to the belt. The text even explicitly says so.

Folks are rarely willing to use an argument they know doesn't get them very much, e.g. "that offends my sensibilities and so it shouldn't be done" because that invites the obvious retort "why should that sensibility be the only one that matters?" Even if that would be more accurate to the...

The bigger issue is when people project this style onto the whole of the game. When they demand that the rules cater to them, and don't care whether they cater to anything else (or, more commonly, get annoyed when anything is provided to anything else). When they treat any form of novelty or...

Sure. But one of the images shown is, quite literally, the actual lantern used by Guy Fawkes. In November 1605. With a link directly to the British Museum that holds it. I think that ought to be adequate evidence that these lanterns were around. Lanterns of this exact type were, in fact, worn on...

A website, specifically geared toward the discussion of things related to TTRPGs, which shows museum pieces, historical documents, and other items displaying the use of lanterns of this type. They were in use from at least the late 17th century up through the turn of the 20th century. Items we...

I'm not, and have never been, saying you should. I have been responding to someone else who had said that it was a "structural necessity". And then to people twisting that response to what that person said as though it were some grand unified theory of all gaming ever, some pronouncement from...

Yes. Meaning, the idea that the everpresent threat of death is a "structural necessity" for something to be "D&D" in the first place does not compute when Dragonlance has clearly shown that this isn't a necessity. My entire argument was simply against this claim that the game (a) stops being...

Oh look. Another thread where we have people insisting that the only realistic thing is that you can't have belt lanterns...when belt lanterns, particularly dark lanterns (ones you could move a shutter to set its illumination level), have been around for at least 400 years....and some of them...

Tell me, then, what the Dragonlance modules do.

Did you read my original post? Because it looks like you didn't read my original post. Where I specifically and explicitly said both things. It's really irritating to get multiple "well AKSHULLY" responses when I already said every one of those "well AKSHULLY" things.

Yes, I was in fact talking about that. I really did refer to the modules in specific: ---- "I can do whatever I want" has never, in my experience, been a reducing effect on whether people act in untoward ways. It is almost always going to increase people doing that. Thinking one has license to...

I am willing to assume good faith on the part of the GM. If, and ONLY if, we also assume good faith on the part of the players. As you can see, far too many people want to have their cake and eat it too on this front. They want to assume that every player is a nasty, grubbing, grabby-hands...

Dragonlance. I was very clear about that. Dragonlance is the version of D&D that has limited-to-zero-death rules.

I mean, given what we actually do see in 5e, I don't think there really is any room for debate, but I'm willing to leave it at "we agree to disagree". Okay but if you get to presume bad-faith behavior on the part of the players, why should I have to labor under the notion that GMs only and...

As always, always, always: Chris Perkins' Iomandra setting! Here's a Homebrewery PDF that compiled most of the information known about the setting, including the few maps we have. (It's meant to not have a full world map.) Most of the images have been lost, but the Wayback Machine has preserved...

I was replying to another poster (not sure if you can see this) and using their terms to build the response.

Quite fair; my issue is not that bad outcomes shouldn't be possible (I always endeavor to do the same). Rather, in the context of the preceding conversation, the principle given was some variation of "Don't take away the things that make the character matter to the player." I fear I don't...

It's an interesting analysis, but it feels like there really isn't much difference between NY and SBY (except for one I'll address below). That is, the only difference I can see is that, in SBY, the players have a more overt responsibility to be as proactive as possible, while NY they should...