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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4212129" data-attributes="member: 4937">All of this sounds reasonable except that part about pikes, shortbows, and swords.  Those are all high skill weapons requiring considerable training.  More likely given average D&D assumed technology, you'd be looking at local polearm of choice, crossbows, and axes.  Swords in fact were considered the exclusive province and a distinguishing mark of nobility and in most localities were subject to a special tax or else down right illegal for non-nobility to carry.You have a considerable advantage over the average American reader in that you've probably had the oppurtunity to actually see a landscaped shaped by medieval demographics.  Pretty much no where in America is there such a landscape, though New England comes pretty close.  I don't know whether there is an official term for this, but the civic topography of America is based on the train and the stagecoach rather than the horse and ox cart and much of it was settled post mechanization so it looks very different than Europe.  It's 'villages' are larger and before urban sprawl much more widely spaced out.  It's layout is enherently modern, and its cities are almost universally laid out with automobiles in mind - even its older and non-cosmopolitan ones.  True foot traffic and oxcart cities dating back to antiquity just don't exist, and neither really do rural landscapes shaped by primitive farming practices.  I'm sure that is a landscape slowly passing away in much of Europe, but the point is that its never really existed here - and the few places that come close are some of the first places that were overrun by metro sprawl.So the anachronisms probably jump out at you more readily than some.  For me, I've the advantage (or as Hong would have it, disadvantage) of having studied this stuff pretty extensively for 20+ years.</blockquote>

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