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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amethal" data-source="post: 8954480" data-attributes="member: 22784">The way it is all a mish-mash of various time periods (including imaginary ones) also seems "foreign" to me. Not-vikings interacting with not-Romans, whilst Arthurian knights in platemail are part of a feudal system that we are told exists but never really see. Meanwhile everybody is literate and there is renaissance-level technology everywhere.The whole BECMI / AD&D vibe of civilisation giving way to the borderlands and then the wilderness seemed very exotic to me, growing up. (And increasingly problematic, when seen with adult eyes). Whilst there are parts of the UK that could be termed wilderness, all of it is owned by someone (including the foreshore, which is mostly owned by the monarch). It's very hard to strike off on your own.D&D 4th edition's "Points of Light" setting seemed much more appropriate as a pseudo-medieval setting - there are towns and villages, and everywhere is pleasant enough during the day, but anything could be lurking out on the moors after dark.And the terminology seemed weird as a child - I had no idea what precipitation or parentheses were before reading D&D, and I still struggle with the British spellings of various words common in D&D but not so common elsewhere, such as manoeuvre.</blockquote>