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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7983396" data-attributes="member: 6801845">To a certain degree, you also just have to have a common language and default technology level.I mean, I can replace "king" with "jarl", "sultan", "caliph", "emperor" and it doesn't really matter all that much.  Styles of dress, armor and weapons ... also based more on assumptions of a relatively advanced metallurgical technology.  There needs to be conflict for there to be heroes, so there are going to be wars.  Given the other assumptions of technology you're going to have castles.  The climate is, for the most part, vaguely temperate.  But that's about all.  The default set dressing is more-or-less European but doesn't really resemble medieval Europe all that much.  The technology is wrong, polytheism wasn't a major factor, the church's power is minimized in most campaigns.  Last time I checked there weren't roving bands of orcs wandering around France.If it seems to resemble medieval Europe it's largely because that time period wasn't very well understood so any setting that does not call out specific social norms, gods or other set dressing gets filled in with what most people are familiar with.</blockquote>