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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 1705128" data-attributes="member: 19998">Refresher courseWell, gee, I don't know. Let's see here hmmmmmmmOk,  Tatical Studies Research (TSR) was located in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. When TSR went out of business it was bought by a company called Wizards of the Coast located in Renton, Washington. One of, David Arneson's, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons (and Chainmail) , hobbies is American Civil War re-enactments. Most of the authors that influanced early D&D were either American or English. So I don't know, do you think that it is posible that when an American company, runs an advertisment in America refering to medieval, they mean an American view of medieval England? Words have more meaning then the definations in the dictionary. When you say medieval to most Americans (and I think you know this) they draw a certian picture in their head that has nothing to the dictionary defination of medieval. It dosen't have to be spelled out, the book dosen't have to have cavets, because the book is written with people who understand the connotative meaning of medieval is. If the reader dosen't understand the connotative meaning of medieval, then it's safe to say that the book is not written for that partiular reader. Not to worry though. There are plenty of settings for such a person. Personaly, I'm still waiting for the D&D setting that portrays serfs accurately.Again, it's not suprising that a game written in America, by Americans, to be sold (mostly) in America has certian american conotative meaning. Now, I don't want people to think that I have some high and mighty view that America is better than anything else. Far from it. I think most people don't understand that the US has it's own culture. (Even in the US) Yes, The US's roots are western Europe, but a few hundred years of settalment will cause some cultural drift, and that's an important concept. Western Civlization isn't one culture divieded among many nations, is thousands of cutures divided among every conceivable geographic and political boundry there exists and few that don't. To think that words don't have diffrent meanings (connotative or otherwise) even to people who speak the same language (even to people with close cultural roots) is ludicrous.</blockquote>

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