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I think this is our fundamental disagreement.

And then they latch onto one improvised side comment. Three hours later,one of them is married to a rug.

Is WoW medieval fantasy? I don't think so.

I mean, maybe, but very, very few games (TTRPG or CRPG) make any real effort toward anything more than a medieval veneer.

That's weird, I don't have any modern tech that let's me read minds. But modern tech is WAY better at mass transit and communication. I don't think D&D magic aims to replicate modern technology at. I actually think it is kind of aimless outside of "how do we use this in a fight?" to be honest...

To be clear, "I read it and didn't like it" is fine. "I read it and it is a bad adventure" usually isn't. Waterdeep Dragonheist reads like garbage but turns out to be a great adventure creation toolkit.

So, explain. What obvious thing from reading DiA was born out in play?

Again, I think the period from the early/mid 80s to the early 90s, D&D WAS medieval fantasy -- at least insofar as one might categorize it by its aesthetic and the kinds of lore and stories it was trying to tell. But before that it was decidedly S&S and Weird, and Ultimately broke to be its own...

That's fair. I have only played the game a half dozen times in 40 years of gaming. Every time has been pretty banal with mundane knightly concerns overshadowing any (usually fae) magical elements. Every time by different GMs, mind, so that's why I came away with that assessment. I have never...

Things that seem "obvious" in reading ate often wrong when put to the table.

I am not sure I would go back to running it, but I will say this: 3.5 was much more of an intentional toolkit than 5E, and it knew how to support the GM with publications.

Personal Pet Peeve: people "rating" an adventure (good or bad) that they have only read.

Now I feel like you are being a touch disingenuous.

That's allod of land! /i'll see myself out

So, this is merely anecdotal of course, but while I am aware of that game, I had no idea it had anything to do with Arthurian fantasy. I am not saying I have my finger on the pulse of everything that comes out, but I am online a lot. So they not market it as such, or have I simply missed it? Is...

Maybe you aren't familiar with the term trappings? It means veneer or costume. That is, surface appearance of.

Well, again, we need to figure out whether we are talking about settings or the D&D metasetting. In the latter case, no. But Dragonlance worked real hard to be very medieval in trappings, as do certain locations within Greyhawk and the Realms. Even Eberron has a nation that really embraces the...

I think the intent is that if you call something "medieval fantasy" then you are implying that the world looks as much like European medieval history as is possible with te inclusion of magical elements. As opposed to a game that looks like, say, The Dark Crystal -- it is beholden only to its...

It is too bad that there is only one well known Arthurian game, because it gives the mistaken impression that "Arthurian" is one thing.

Let me be clear, then: you are wrong. GARY had a focus on medievalism, but the D&D he actually produced was no more medieval than it was bronze age, renaissance or old west. It was full of contradictions and anachronisms because he and his fellow creators knew that they were making a fantasy...