D&D (2024) 2024 PHB/DMG/MM art/layout: like or dislike?

Yeah, it's a real mess chronologically, and I think it would be nice if that was acknowledged in some way in the text.
What is there to acknowledge, exactly? A fantasy setting is wildly anachronistic, and sometimes absurdly inaccurate? This would be true since the origins of D&D, with "plate mail" (renaissance), "chain" "mail" (misnomer), and "studded" leather (implausible).

I am all for a historically accurate setting, especially a mythologically accurate setting. These are specific settings.
 

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What is there to acknowledge, exactly? A fantasy setting is wildly anachronistic, and sometimes absurdly inaccurate? This would be true since the origins of D&D, with "plate mail" (renaissance), "chain" "mail" (misnomer), and "studded" leather (implausible).

I am all for a historically accurate setting, especially a mythologically accurate setting. These are specific settings.
Making mention of the anachronistic nature of D&D, in all the many ways it is so, would be useful for new players who might otherwise think that what they're seeing is "medieval times with magic".
 

Making mention of the anachronistic nature of D&D, in all the many ways it is so, would be useful for new players who might otherwise think that what they're seeing is "medieval times with magic".

Based on what I have seen of the PHB (called the "new 5.5 D&D PHB" at a shop out of town) there is little chance of the happening.

Wizards is taking D&D firmly in a direction. "Medieval Times" is not it.
 

Based on what I have seen of the PHB (called the "new 5.5 D&D PHB" at a shop out of town) there is little chance of the happening.

Wizards is taking D&D firmly in a direction. "Medieval Times" is not it.
But medieval times with magic is D&D's reputation. You can't pretend that isn't so, and people will take that impression with them into the game.
 



Based on what I have seen of the PHB (called the "new 5.5 D&D PHB" at a shop out of town) there is little chance of the happening.

Wizards is taking D&D firmly in a direction. "Medieval Times" is not it.
I think that's because a lot of modern fantasy books seem to be less and less "Medieval Times". I'm sire that's cold comfort to you and others, but time marches on. Personally, I draw more influence from the Bronze and early Iron Age than Medieval for my homebrew setting.
 




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