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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9043024" data-attributes="member: 42582">That's not the issue. Upthread, you posted (and I quoted) &quot;I based everything on how medieval villages worked and how interpersonal relationships between humans work.&quot; The relevant issue here is not trust, it's expertise.I am simply going on what you said: that you based everything on how mediaeval villages worked. The &quot;available information&quot; here includes extensive scholarly research. Making &quot;the best of&quot; that means engaging with it in a serious fashion.Now maybe you meant that &quot;I based everything on my rough-and-ready sense of how mediaeval villages worked&quot;. I don't know - I'm just going on what you posted.OK. I don't really know how to make this fit with &quot;I based everything on how mediaeval villages worked&quot;. That seems like a historical thing.I don't really follow this. I would trust MI Finley or Inga Clendinnen, above the typical FRPG GM, to be able to imagine the range of human personalities that might be encountered in a given social situation from a non-modern historical period.My own experience of discussions on RPG forums suggests that most FRPG GMs don't have a very strong sense of those possibilities at all. This is Scourge of the Demon Wolf, yeah? <a href="https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=1307" target="_blank">Scourge of the Demon Wolf</a>From that summary it's not clear how religion figures in it. It makes it seem an essentially atheistic setting, like REH's Conan.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9043024, member: 42582"] That's not the issue. Upthread, you posted (and I quoted) "I based everything on how medieval villages worked and how interpersonal relationships between humans work." The relevant issue here is not trust, it's [I]expertise[/I]. I am simply going on what you said: that you based everything on how mediaeval villages worked. The "available information" here includes extensive scholarly research. Making "the best of" that means engaging with it in a serious fashion. Now maybe you meant that "I based everything on my rough-and-ready sense of how mediaeval villages worked". I don't know - I'm just going on what you posted. OK. I don't really know how to make this fit with "I based everything on how mediaeval villages worked". That seems like a historical thing. I don't really follow this. I would trust MI Finley or Inga Clendinnen, above the typical FRPG GM, to be able to imagine the range of human personalities that might be encountered in a given social situation from a non-modern historical period. My own experience of discussions on RPG forums suggests that most FRPG GMs don't have a very strong sense of those possibilities at all. This is Scourge of the Demon Wolf, yeah? [URL="https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=1307"]Scourge of the Demon Wolf[/URL] From that summary it's not clear how religion figures in it. It makes it seem an essentially atheistic setting, like REH's Conan. [/QUOTE]

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