Should tea exist in a medieval fantasy setting?
>>47058532
That would be worse than potatoes.
>>47058532
There were plenty of authentic substitutes during medieval times. Tea itself was unheard of, drinking hot brew from dried and fermented leaves was widespread.
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Every culture has had some form of herbal "tea" beverage.
Aside from that, if your setting has the Monk class, there's no real reason it shouldn't also have Camellia sinensis tea as well.
>>47058532
Wasn't tea an important export from the orient via the silk road?
Medieval fantasy does not equal imitating our IRL history. My fantasy setting has tea, and burlap sacks, and potatoes, because such details aren't important to the game's focus so I might as well let them in.
>>47058532
Sure. Don't get too pedantic about 'historically accurate' in fantasy, particularly foodstuffs. Potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes, whatever. You want it, you use it.
Fantasy settings tend to be much more openly traveled than the real world was historically anyway.
>>47058547
You mean, worse than something that didn't really have much of an effect on European history but we pretend did anyway to justify getting assblasted over a minor but obvious anachronism so we don't have to think about all the major ones we don't have the medieval history background required to even recognize?
Can you even have anachronisms in a FANTASY setting?
>>47058682
Speaking as an Englishman, have you got any idea how many Indians and Chinks my ancestors murdered to secure a steady supply of tea?
Still, that came in the 1600's onward.
>>47058532
>fantasy
>no tea
Son, I don't know what kinda fucked-up fantasy world you're dreaming up that doesn't contain tea.
>>47058706
Tea wasn't very popular in England for a long while, everyone preferred coffee.
>>47058679
But potatoes were still wholly toxic at that period. Respect native botanical engineering and use at least hopniss instead or wapato in your settiing. Jeez.
>>47058547
>That would be worse than potatoes.
Why not kumara?
>>47058730
This
>>47058763
>But potatoes were still wholly toxic at that period
What period, the Century of the Adder during the reign of Lord Harkon the Immortal?
The humble potato was the only thing sustaining the seawrights of West Friggun during that era. And it's a good thing too or we'd never have found the Lost Princes of Yster.
>>47058532
Google "infusion".
And what kind of game are you playing that you need to ask such a question to /tg/ ?
