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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...

So which part of medieval history does the beholder come from?

Pendragon is great, but it is a particular flavor of Arthurian, being generally much more grounded than a lot of actual Arthurian romances. Arthurian romances of the late medieval period have knights doing all sorts of superheroic things and encountering all many of monsters, devils, faeries and...

Well, you're in luck! But I thought you were big on traditionalism? OG Eberron was not steampunk at all and warforged were more golem than robot.

Sure, but the post I quoted was not saying that D&D was Conan-esque, it was asking if you can even DO "Conan-esque" in D&D anymore. To which I answer with the challenge: define "Conan-Esque."

The problem is, "Conan-esque" is even more elusive than "Tolkien-esque" as a term to nail down a kind of fantasy. Not only did Howard's own work vary wildly -- some Conan stories were repurposed Kull and Bran mak Morn stories -- but films and comics, not to mention 70s butchering jobs on the...

Sometimes, I suppose, but I actually think this thread has been pretty good about pointing out that it is not steampunk, but then tackling the subject anyway.

I adored DL as a kid and would even re-read it (it being Chronicles and Legends) well into my 20s. But somewhere along the line I realized that DL was a carefully crafted corporate pastiche of not just Tolkien but all of what was happening in bookstore fantasy at the time. It is much less...

There are definitely things I feel about this post, but I don't think this is the right place to talk about them (hence my edit).

I prefer evocative brevity. No one wants to hear me ramble on about streets and market stalls and whatever when they enter the city. Moreover, the less you say, IMO, the deeper the players are immersed because it is their conception of the world they are in, not mine.

But you said no. True. Also true. D&D only resembled the medieval insofar as it overlapped with Chainmail. Otherwise it was straight up sword and sorcery and weird fiction. Late 1E and early 2E was really the only period where it looked like all the rest of the fantasies on the book shelf. I...

GotG is literally one of the called out influences on page 1 of Starfinder.

Here is a link to a great, human made Eberron lore playlist.