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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7887853" data-attributes="member: 6895991">DnD is in fact more Renaissance A.D. 1500+ than middle ages (800-1400 or so) concerning equipment in what is given in PHB and DMG. Of course gunpowder is purely optional, but you even got rules for that.2e had some accessory for items and the historic campaign sourcebooks. They were a bit better to what was available. E.g. full plate started to become a thing at about 1375 or so and really saw widespread use 1420 to 1450, but at that time gunpowder weapons mostly in form of artillery started to get a big factor already.Great swords also became a thing much later 1550 to 1650, they were a popular weapon in the thirty years war and used by special mercenaries. Although they also were the weapon of elite bodyguards sometimes, the Spanish montante has manuals teaching how to defend against multiple opponents.These are only few of the examples where DnD hopelessly intermixes things, for the historic layperson the differences are unknown, so he will not realize anyway.It is just common slang: Oh, knights with swords and castles, so it has to be middle ages. And btw, no one had a gun back then, these people were forced to use swords to cut through their armor to kill their foes.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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