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<blockquote data-quote="hbarsquared" data-source="post: 6620627" data-attributes="member: 4550">Short answer: hand-waving.&nbsp; Stink, magic, available resources, racism, gender-equality, homophobia....&nbsp; All this tends to be ignored or have the most idle of mentionings in a game.&nbsp; The game is about defeating monsters and Evil, anything beyond that is window dressing.With that said, depending on the campaign and group, each of these can absolutely add to the experience.&nbsp; I say go for it, if tou and your group are down playing that type of game.The history itself, of course, is more complex.&nbsp; London was a cesspool because it was a barbaric outland town, not the pinnacle of civilization as in Rome/Indus/&lt;any number of other advanced cities outside Europe&gt; a few hundred years previous.Keep in mind that the march/progress of technilogy has never been even, especially geographically.&nbsp; Three communities, aboriginal, medieval, renaissance - can easily coexist in the same era, and the same region.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hbarsquared, post: 6620627, member: 4550"] Short answer: hand-waving. Stink, magic, available resources, racism, gender-equality, homophobia.... All this tends to be ignored or have the most idle of mentionings in a game. The game is about defeating monsters and Evil, anything beyond that is window dressing. With that said, depending on the campaign and group, each of these can absolutely add to the experience. I say go for it, if tou and your group are down playing that type of game. The history itself, of course, is more complex. London was a cesspool because it was a barbaric outland town, not the pinnacle of civilization as in Rome/Indus/<any number of other advanced cities outside Europe> a few hundred years previous. Keep in mind that the march/progress of technilogy has [i]never[/i] been even, especially geographically. Three communities, aboriginal, medieval, renaissance - can easily coexist in the same era, and the same region. [/QUOTE]

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