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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Galethorn" data-source="post: 1858870" data-attributes="member: 7888">My post was pointed at 'a lot of people' rather than you; it's obvious now that I didn't really make that very clear. Anyway, I guess what I was saying is that (despite everything I say about myself not being arrogant or confrontational), the view of D&D as D20 Dark Ages is wrong.Sure, it's a contrary position (considering how many people think of unwashed peasants being opressed by knights in full plate when the term Dark Ages is thrown out), and it's not nice to call an opinion wrong, but no incarnation of (not heavily houseruled) D&D I've ever seen has been in a setting that could be equated to the Dark Ages!Oh well, I guess I hum loudly and think of saxons whenever somebody starts talking about FR or Greyhawk as being a Dark Ages setting...On a related note, my fervor might partially be explained by the fact that I'm working on an 'alternate europe' setting (different geography but similar climate, similar cultures, overall, that look different from any specific 'real' culture when viewed up close). Of course, the technological and social situation would somewhere in the 8-9th century range if you compared it to 'real europe'. Anyway, I've done a lot of research, and the differences between the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages have become quite apparent to me, so the thought of D&D with its full plate and rapiers and crossbows as a 'dark ages' setting makes the lawful-informative loremaster inside me cringe...</blockquote>

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