"You can be forgiven for thinking that OD&D is a medieval European fantasy game. After all, Gary Gygax himself says so. " At various points (the original Dunge

"You can be forgiven for thinking that OD&D is a medieval European fantasy game. After all, Gary Gygax himself says so. " At various points (the original Dungeon Master's Guide, for example, page 88), he also has said it's expressly not a European Feudal game, and goes at length to qualify that, saying that it is only one of many sources of inspiration, and describes a number of political systems possible in a campaign and explains ways a variety of societies could be woven into it. So, yeah I suppose if you've only read a little about D&D you could be forgiven for thinking this, but there is a large body of in-game and supplementary official and fan-created rules and settings which should give no one the impression that at any point were game authors and players as a whole were going for feudal european verisimilitude (or opposing it, for that matter) Blog post is interesting but the title and initial setup is kind of a strawman