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I have seen the ruleset for Pathfinder where you can purchase land and titles, etc. and it is pitifully boring. I would be surprised if someone seriously into c

I have seen the ruleset for Pathfinder where you can purchase land and titles, etc. and it is pitifully boring. I would be surprised if someone seriously into crunching the numbers behind real estate would be interested in a game based centrally on die rolling. I have also seen rulesets that tried to be more medieval and they were near unplayable. Someone who was serious about playing that sort of game is generally not the same kind of person who would play the more popular forms of TRPGs. I think there's not much about medieval life that is exciting enough to be able to make a sustainable ruleset for TRPGs. There's very little in modern society that is pro-medieval. Even the Ren fairs that so many people are into have almost nothing to do with recreating actual medieval life. Being pro-something does not always mean being anti-something else. Sometimes it means that a certain group just isn't interested. And in the context of modern TRPGs, medieval is a marketing term, not an actual descriptive term.

busterarm 2y ago
There are plenty of campaigns out there that are politically oriented and traveling hobos aren't likely to get positive attention from the local lord or lady. Turns out that having a stake in local society is one of the best ways to get that positive attention, just following logically. Rules like these are for people playing the setting appropriately. But these days I think it's appropriate to assume that large numbers of roleplayers are doing so to play out chiefly their own fantasies and all of the modern sensibilities that comes with.
jeltz 2y ago
In my country, Sweden, one of the most popular RPGs used to be Eon and that game i s much more medieval than DnD and it is very playable. I would argue more so than DnD, that that is subjective. And it was a very popular game so your guesses are wrong. There are also a whole bunch of the games which are semi successful which are more or less about medieval life, e.g. Pendragon. And then we have Warhammer Fantasy which is renaissance. DnD is mostly just big in the US due to historical reasons.

busterarm 2y ago

There are plenty of campaigns out there that are politically oriented and traveling hobos aren't likely to get positive attention from the local lord or lady. Turns out that having a stake in local society is one of the best ways to get that positive attention, just following logically. Rules like these are for people playing the setting appropriately. But these days I think it's appropriate to assume that large numbers of roleplayers are doing so to play out chiefly their own fantasies and all of the modern sensibilities that comes with.

jeltz 2y ago

In my country, Sweden, one of the most popular RPGs used to be Eon and that game i s much more medieval than DnD and it is very playable. I would argue more so than DnD, that that is subjective. And it was a very popular game so your guesses are wrong. There are also a whole bunch of the games which are semi successful which are more or less about medieval life, e.g. Pendragon. And then we have Warhammer Fantasy which is renaissance. DnD is mostly just big in the US due to historical reasons.