Why are almost all settings based on medieval England instead of more exotic locales?
>>46190364
Cultural familiarity creates a context in which people are comfortable roleplaying.
Familiarity leads to ease of immersion.
Although very few settings are actually medieval, more generic ren-faire.
>>46190364
>>46190364
Because when college hipsters write RPGs based on "exotic" locales and cultures, they always go for the fucking cliches.
Case in point: Legend of the Five Rings and 7th Sea, not to mention all the Forgotten Realms spinoffs like Al-Qadim and Maztica.
>>46190364
>Why does 2 + 2 = 7?
I want to strangle the anon who invented this.
England is fairly exotic as far as I'm concerned.
I'm closer to the Amazon Rainforest than I am to London.
>>46190364
Name one actually good fantasy setting that isn't based on generic "medieval Europe."
Because Gygax and crew built the original D&D on top of a medieval wargame. They added magic and tons of shit from everything into it but the core inspiration of the settings stayed the same. And D&D is very, very influential.
>>46190364
>>46190469
Dark Sun.
>>46190485
As big a faggot as OP is, you are ten time faggier.
>>46190469
Eberon.
>>46190469
Slavnica
>>46190364
>>46190407
You're going to look to your own culture first when it comes to a fantasy setting as opposed to another. If you were raised in China, your initial outlook on a fantasy setting would be ancient Chinese. Same principle applies to any nationality. Most game producers are European, or in former European colonies (i.e. America), therefore the majority of games utilize European history as a base.
>don't care if bait or not
>tumblr/10
>>46190485
This meme needs to stop.
>>46190364
>almost all settings
I laugh at your weak attempt at pretending to be retarded.
>>46190501
>Eberron
>Good
>>46190469
L5R
Middle Earth outside of the Shire
>>46190500
>>46190542
It'll stop when it stops being true.
>>46190542
It'll stop when it stops being true.
>>46190364
Because most fantasy settings are written by Americans who have a huge boner for English knights but have never read anything about the rest of Medieval Europe.
>>46190441
>Al-Qadim and Maztica
>written by hipsters
>written by college students
Are you naturally retarded or do you put a lot of effort into it?
>>46190469
Dark Sun
Eberron
Ravenloft (sort of, it's medieval mixed with pre-medieval and early modern)
Warhammer Fantasy Battles (early modern)
>>46190561
>You
>Not a greentexting faggot
>>46190364
Because non-English people and cultures suck.
>>46190528
Hi.
Stop trying to tell me what I think. I'm not an unimaginative pleb like you.
Thanks.
>>46190571
>L5R
>Good
>>46190528
>Most game producers are European, or in former European colonies
Well, you'd be hard pressed to find a piece of land that isn't former European colony.
>>46190500
>>46190542
>buttmad DnDfags
>why are so many western fantasy settings based on western history and culture?
>>46190574
>>46190575
Nice samefag.
But in all seriousness, it's the most unhelpful garbage non-advice outside of "depends on the setting :^)"
>>46190590
Yep. It is. Despite your super devastating "IMPLYING IT IS LE GOOD XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD" greentext shitpost, that point remains unchallenged.
>>46190364
i'd actually like to see a game set in south east asia or africa a few thousand years ago
>>46190647
The posts are exactly two seconds apart, you know that's literally impossible for them to be a samefag, right?
>>46190588
French and Russian, they matter not,
A blow for a blow and a shot for a shot!
We love them not, we hate them not,
We hold the Weichsel and Vosges gate.
We have but one and only hate,
We love as one, we hate as one,
We have one foe and one alone.
He is known to you all, he is known to you all,
He crouches behind the dark gray flood,
Full of envy, of rage, of craft, of gall,
Cut off by waves that are thicker than blood.
Come, let us stand at the Judgment Place,
An oath to swear to, face to face,
An oath of bronze no wind can shake,
An oath for our sons and their sons to take.
Come, hear the word, repeat the word,
Throughout the Fatherland make it heard.
We will never forego our hate,
We have all but a single hate,
We love as one, we hate as one,
We have one foe and one alone —
ENGLAND!
tl;dr remove rosbeef
>>46190665
Okay, then why haven't you made one yet?
>>46190647
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. If those are the answers you're getting it means you shouldn't have asked in the first place.
>>46190612
Central Asia / Mongolia? Depending of course whether you consider Russian eastward expansion to be Colonialism and those lands to be 'colonies'
>>46190612
Bingo! You've earned yourself a 4chan Gold Account for the rest of the month!
>>46190690
because only faggots play dnd
>>46190695
>If retards decide to shitpost in response to a valid question, the it's your fault!
Okay.
>>46190729
>implying its a valid question
>>46190542
As someone that likes DnD, it's really fucking annoying when someone tries to corrupt DnD until it basically becomes not!*gametitlehere*. Just check out other fucking systems, for christ's sake.
>>46190737
What makes it invalid?
>>46190701
Why thank you!
>>46190729
>valid question
>stupid obvious shit like in the OP
>valid
>>46190364
Isn't Golarion primarily centered around the Not!Levant of Katapesh and Not!ColonialAmerica of Varisia instead?
>>46190747
This.
If you don't like what D&D does to the point that you have to bend and twist and break and rewrite the game to do something else, why not just save yourself the trouble and play something that does that something else right out of the box?
>>46190574
The problem with the "have you tried not playing D&D" is that people use it more often than not when playing a different system wouldn't solve anything.
Few problems discussed on this board can be solved just by switching systems, largely because at the end of the day, the system is actually only a small component to the game that's being run, and that switching systems just leads to a new veneer on the same old problems.
"Try X system" is not always bad advice, but it's not particularly helpful in a thread about problem players, or about story issues, or even alignment arguments, because even in the last case it's just a name (or a different name) for things you'll find in find in almost every other game. Even games "without" alignments still have degrees of morality to them or factions with codes of conduct, and most alignment arguments typically revolve around these two features of alignment.
Does D&D have flaws? Certainly, but most of these are remedied in far less time than it takes to learn a new system, and the idea that you should abandon a system just because something didn't work out is why we find a lot of people hopping through multiple systems hoping that a change of game will solve their problems.
Most of the whole problem with system discussion is that it's actually political in nature. Play X game or play Y game is a tactic to try to garner support for one game or dissuade people from playing another, and is largely dishonest in its lack of transparency. D&D becomes a target not because it's a bad game by any measure, but because it's popularity means people are less inclined to play other games.
As a person who has played his share of everything under the sun and now plays homebrews almost exclusively, I've really gotten tired of people claiming system superiority or inferiority when they're all just talking about the same inferior games just under different disguises.
If only they knew how amazing Duck in the Circle was.
>>46190364
name 3
>>46190960
fuck off
>>46190729
Your teacher was wrong. There is such a thing as a bad question. When you ask 'do dragons XYZ?' or 'can X <verb> Y?' you deserve an equally vague answer.
>>46190364
Because those locales wouldn't be exotic if they were used a lot.
>>46190960
>Certainly, but most of these are remedied in far less time than it takes to learn a new system
People have been trying to settle on a coherent system of houserules fixing 3.x for fifteen years. There's still a major published product attempting (and failing) to do this.
Opinion trash, therefore discarded.
>>46191137
>people have different opinions and needs for their games, so they use different options and houserules
WHAT A SHOCK.
>>46191081
>>46191137
>Most of the whole problem with system discussion is that it's actually political in nature. Play X game or play Y game is a tactic to try to garner support for one game or dissuade people from playing another, and is largely dishonest in its lack of transparency. D&D becomes a target not because it's a bad game by any measure, but because it's popularity means people are less inclined to play other games.
>>46191051
Greyhawk
ASOIAF/GOT
Pendragon
>>46191168
>needing 3.5
>ever
Nice meme, friend
>>46191228
D&D 3.5 is literally a bad game by any measure.
Simple mechanics? OD&D, B/X, and BECMI did that better.
Prestige/alternate classes? AD&D did that better.
Intraparty balance? AD&D also did that better.
Tactical slogbat? 4e did that better.
3.x drones are people trying to dig a hole with a plastic spoon who get enraged when someone suggests that they use a shovel or at least a metal spoon.
>>46191229
>Greyhawk
>ASOIAF/GOT
contain much more that is decidedly not medieval England than what actually is
>Pendragon
literal retard
>>46191228
fuck off
>>46191229
>>46191339
>>46191417
>>Most of the whole problem with system discussion is that it's actually political in nature. Play X game or play Y game is a tactic to try to garner support for one game or dissuade people from playing another, and is largely dishonest in its lack of transparency. D&D becomes a target not because it's a bad game by any measure, but because it's popularity means people are less inclined to play other games.
>>46191228
>>46191496
>D&D becomes a target not because it's a bad game by any measure
>>D&D becomes a target not because it's a bad game by any measure
>>46191496
>implying
>too stupid to understand "fuck off"
go away
>>46191417
Are you suggesting that Pendragon isn't based on medieval England?
>>46191722
I'm suggesting that you are a literal retard for citing a game that the entire point is being based on "medieval England"
>>46190407
Not only this, but when you try to expand out of that sphere of familiarity, there's always that one fucking guy who has to be a dick about something being inaccurate in a fantasy setting.
>>46191531
>>46191696
>Most of the whole problem with system discussion is that it's actually political in nature. Play X game or play Y game is a tactic to try to garner support for one game or dissuade people from playing another, and is largely dishonest in its lack of transparency. D&D becomes a target not because it's a bad game by any measure, but because it's popularity means people are less inclined to play other games.
>>46190589
>Don't tell me what to think
>Think what I tell you to think instead
Set Plebian to Maximus
>>46190612
Fair enough, but how strong of an influence European culture had on the area will vary highly.
It's also intriguing how actually different the US (the most successful former European colony) is from their parent nation, in a lot of subtle but very important ways. I only noticed this because I worked with a tour agency that served UK tourists here in Texas (and it's honestly ruined my opinion of British people, jesus I thought American tourists were bad) but years of constant, direct interaction with what was essentially a raw cultural clash have brought out a lot of differences between the two cultures most don't recognize or think about.
