D&D 5E (2014) What’s So Great About Medieval Europe?

[Garthanos]

What I'm saying is that it's stupid to filter the past through our own world view.

Poppycock it is absolutely the only valid analysis. And things have gotten better in a discernable pattern by just about any measure that is based on human experience.

What's the ideal number the earth can support. 2 billion?

What is the foundation for that ideal number (now there is one pulled out of a hat)?... ummm yeh the inevitable overpopulation argument is nonsense too population levels out when we can employ birth control and feel comfortable living with fewer children because they do not die out from under us, its a self correcting situation I want it self correcting in more humane ways than dying of starvation or due to plagues and not so coincidentally that exists.

 

[Lylandra]

I also take the death by childbirth being a lowish count "natural" cause and not needing a dozen kids to get a few to adulthood.

Also, reliable birth control. But that'd be less a problem in a fantasy world with advanced alchemy.

 

[Minigiant]

Anyone wants Exotic Weapons Proficiency back?

Not "strictly better" weapons but just additional weapons still in sync with martial weapons of either racial creation or of other places outside of Medieval/Renaissance European/MiddleEastern are of Earth.

 

[Fenris-77]

Anyone wants Exotic Weapons Proficiency back?

What, for things like Feather Boa? Or Tearaway Pants +2? We may need a Magic Mike subclass....

 

[jasper]

College students no longer settle disputes by dueling with swords. So that's objectively worse.

EDIT: And it's really hard to find cars with manual transmissions. Worse.

EDIT2: And G.I. Joe is like, what, 3" tall? Much, much worse.

LIES LIES LIES! Jasper grabs Elf in his Kung Fu action grip. Maybe in this modern era G.I. Joe is 3 inches tall. We know in the Boomer Era they were bigger.
Sorry. Releases Elf from his Kung Fu Grip. I started my rant before your point sunk in.

 

[Fenris-77]

Big GI Joe isn't size compatible with classic Star Wars figures or my Attack on Hoth play set, so hard pass.

 

[Minigiant]

What, for things like Feather Boa? Or Tearaway Pants +2? We may need a Magic Mike subclass....

Exotic not Erotic. lol

Katanas and shotels, not bikini armor.
Unless you mean a gladiator subclass that is proficient in piecemeal armor and 3 exotic weapons of their choice.

 

[Fenris-77]

Exotic not Erotic. lol

Katanas and shotels, not bikini armor.
Unless you mean a gladiator subclass that is proficient in piecemeal armor and 3 exotic weapons of their choice.

Exotic Dancers are a thing. Google away, but NSFW. I would like actual rules for the katana though.

 

[Minigiant]

Exotic Dancers are a thing. Google away, but NSFW. I would like actual rules for the katana though.

I'd prefer 2 optional rule sets

a Table of exotic equivalents like the DMG Wuxia table but for weapons all over the world, racial weapons, and ancient weapons,
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a Table of exotic weapons with actual mechanical differences.

 

[Fenris-77]

a Table of exotic weapons with actual mechanical differences.

5e doesn't really go in for heavy mechanical differentiation of weapons, so you might need to look to 3PP products for this. It would be cool though.