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<blockquote data-quote="Enkhidu" data-source="post: 73604" data-attributes="member: 351">Actually, feudalism took root before what most people would think of as Europes Dark Ages, during the Roman occupation of Western Europe. The idea that landowners (curials) held men and slaves in service (they eventually became serfs), and in turn owed taxes and loyalty to their superiors (usually military Prefects and minor Roman nobility), who in turn had the same arrangement with their superiors, and so on all the way to the Emporer is one that had been in practice well before the &quot;fall&quot; of the Empire.However, having said that, I'd like to say that I agree wholeheartedly with the idea that Adventurers would enter the power vacuum created by monster attacks and the like. In fact, I believe that D&amp;D, from it's very beginnings, was set up with that in mind - anyone else remember &quot;Name level&quot; and all the perk that went with it (notably the ability to attract large numbers of followers if one had the funds for it)? Sounds suspiciously like the era in Germany where the large portions of the nobility were replaced by the robber barons...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Enkhidu, post: 73604, member: 351"] Actually, feudalism took root before what most people would think of as Europes Dark Ages, during the Roman occupation of Western Europe. The idea that landowners (curials) held men and slaves in service (they eventually became serfs), and in turn owed taxes and loyalty to their superiors (usually military Prefects and minor Roman nobility), who in turn had the same arrangement with their superiors, and so on all the way to the Emporer is one that had been in practice well before the "fall" of the Empire. However, having said that, I'd like to say that I agree wholeheartedly with the idea that Adventurers would enter the power vacuum created by monster attacks and the like. In fact, I believe that D&D, from it's very beginnings, was set up with that in mind - anyone else remember "Name level" and all the perk that went with it (notably the ability to attract large numbers of followers if one had the funds for it)? Sounds suspiciously like the era in Germany where the large portions of the nobility were replaced by the robber barons... [/QUOTE]

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