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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7976311" data-attributes="member: 6704184">No one suggested you should roleplay bathing. Please don’t put words in my mouth. We live in a diverse world full of readily available media. We can expand what’s familiar. We have done. Most young people are familiar with a much broader range of story than medieval The game still treats those as deviations from a norm, however. Easily. There are many other thousands of years, and places that aren’t Europe. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Neither. I wonder why it’s so hard for so much of the community to move away from an assumption of a Medieval base for the game. How much do you think most people know about what a count is, in any given medieval region’s context? I figure pretty much the name, and that it’s isn’t super high in the hierarchy, like a Duke would be.I could write an adventure where the local aristocrat is called the Glenn, and his liege is the Varnun, and show what those titles mean with maybe a handful of sentences over the course of the adventure, and the players would have a bette idea of that court structure than they would if I said “you’re before the Count, act accordingly”.</blockquote>