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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9538461" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I appreciate the highly fictionalized so-called "Medieval" milieu for D&D because I like knights in shining armor and lovely fairy-tale kingdoms, rescuing dapper swains and beautiful dragons from the depredations of wicked princesses, all that sort of stuff.I also recognize that: (a) most of what people think of as "medieval" is a schizo-tech, schizo-cultural patchwork quilt, a melange of stuff ranging from late-Antiquity all the way to late-Renaissance/early-Enlightenment with zero regard for actual historical context; (b) the milieu is so heavily romanticized that you have to wear jade-colored glasses just to see normally; and (c) people get real darn persnickety about anything that deviates from their rigid requirements of a "medieval" worldview, to the point of excluding plenty of actually fun and compatible things.None of which is to say that these things are bad (well, the persnickety-ness can be, but isn't always.) It's just important to not get hung up on some of this stuff, because it can lead to people making foolish arguments and insisting on some...really super not-great stuff for completely incorrect reasons. E.g. claiming that it is "historically" true that women were not generally allowed the freedom to be adventurers, so that means female characters shouldn't be permitted....while neglecting the many, many, MANY historical inaccuracies and outright fabrications that the so-called "Medieval" milieu relies on.As long as we can recognize that this is a gross fictionalization, understand that it's going to romanticize or gloss over some of the really bad things of actual history, and accept that some people are comfortable including some things that others might not be and vice-versa, a good time can be had by all.Minor historical note: the 15th century is when full plate was a thing. The first full plate armor came into existence circa 1420. It's the influence of modern fiction conflating late-medieval culture (where jousting was a popular sport) with High Medieval period courtly romance stories. Hand cannons predate plate armor by nearly a century (they were widespread in France by 1340.)</blockquote>

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