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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7760690" data-attributes="member: 22779">One issue, I think, is that as North Americans, because we come from countries that are so ridiculously big, we think that a campaign setting has to be just as big to encompass different territories.&nbsp; It doesn't really register that for so long, pretty much until the 16th century or maybe a bit later, that the notion of &quot;nation&quot; wasn't really a thing.&nbsp; You had castles and the area around that castle and once you got a day or two away from that castle (which, we're only talking 30-40 miles) there really was not a whole lot to be found.&nbsp; We've grown up in massively populated nation states where it's not unusual to drive a couple of days for a holiday.&nbsp; Go back a century or two and the idea that you're going to travel 1500 kilometers away just to hang out on the beach was unheard of.&nbsp; I think a lot of people have a difficult time wrapping their heads around just how small those city states really were.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7760690, member: 22779"] One issue, I think, is that as North Americans, because we come from countries that are so ridiculously big, we think that a campaign setting has to be just as big to encompass different territories. It doesn't really register that for so long, pretty much until the 16th century or maybe a bit later, that the notion of "nation" wasn't really a thing. You had castles and the area around that castle and once you got a day or two away from that castle (which, we're only talking 30-40 miles) there really was not a whole lot to be found. We've grown up in massively populated nation states where it's not unusual to drive a couple of days for a holiday. Go back a century or two and the idea that you're going to travel 1500 kilometers away just to hang out on the beach was unheard of. I think a lot of people have a difficult time wrapping their heads around just how small those city states really were. [/QUOTE]

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