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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7800177" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Undergarments were used in the ancient world. They didn’t really resemble our modern idea of underwear all that closely, but I am also a fan of the “what's said at the table is an abstraction of what’s said in the fiction.” When players make references to modern technology or pop culture or whatever, I just roll with it under the assumption that the character’s are talking about contemporary technology and culture, and that the modern references are a stand-in to better reflect the meaning behind those references to our modern experiences. Like Queen playing at the jousting tournament in Knight’s Tale, obviously they wouldn’t be listening to Queen, but Queen communicates the feel of a sporting event to us 21st century people better than more period appropriate music would.Or for the lierafiles, like how Bilbo Baggins’ name is canonically Bilba Labingi, but Tolkien transliterates it to Bilbo Baggins because English speakers have different associations with vowel sounds than native speakers of his constructed languages would.</blockquote>