>historically European nobility were rural and didn't live in cities>in Fantasy games the wilderness is significantly more dangerous>the rural nobility lived as independent economic units, which produced everything themselves, instead of trading>in Fantasy taverns are very important for travellersSo why not combine nobility and taverns? Instead of taverns have the player rest in fortified manors of the nobility, who explicitly designed their castles to also have a tavern. This would also make sure players don't feel like knights and barons are exploiting them for having a road toll. Btw just so you know the nobility did not live in cities. At least back when they were a real warrior aristocracy. They were rural. Knights would have a very close relationship with their peasant "gang", because it obviously wouldn't just be a single lone Knights asking you for a toll. He would have some lads from the village with him, who would have weapon training. And he wouldn't look down on them as lowly peasants. All of his sons, except his firstborn, who inherited the fortified tower or manor, would be marrying relatives of these peasants.
"Rural" and "wilderness" are two different things, if you're within walking distance of the estate then you aren't in the wild.
>>94827063So...it's just lord's/castle hall but open every day instead for feasts only?
>world is so dangerous taverns have to be fortified within castles>the pesants? They're fine outside i guessI feel dumber just for having considered this
>>94827236You realize that even simple Knights lived in fortified manors or towers in Europe, right? It's not that the rural areas have to be dangerous to peasants. Fortifications are a form of control. It's how you make money, so knights can afford their equipment and their horse. Why is everything so binary with you? Obviously any type of civilization needs peasants to at least be safe enough to go out and farm.
Nobility gather in the Lord's house, the tavern is where the poorfolk congregate. The entire village should have a pallisade at the very least though, any peasant in a fantasy setting would be retarded not to
>>94827063Typical D&D doesn't consider and account for its own monsters and existence of magic anyway, so why not?
>>94827063>So why not combine nobility and taverns?In the modern world we have suburbs and gated communities because the rich are literally willing to pay a premium in order to not live near poor people. So why would nobles actively choose to live near c*mmoners?
>>94827451The levels of contempt and vileness of the upper class had not yet reached the point where to even look at or breath the same air as someone poorer than you wound make a rich man sick. Truly those were kinder and brighter days back then.
>>94827451>In the modern world we have suburbs and gated communities because the rich are literally willing to pay a premium in order to not live near poor people. So why would nobles actively choose to live near c*mmoners?I mean you are right. Like I said in the OP, nobles did NOT live in cities. But suburbs and gated communities are not where the rich live. The really rich and powerful Aristocrats of history, if they were transported to the modern day, would build their own economic units to be completely separated from the modern world. They would produce everything they need themselves and would even make sure their own servants aren't connected to the outside world and have their own separate places to live. They would produce meat, cheese, milk, beer, etc on their own farms and vineyards and also permanently employ the people, who then turn these goods into their end products. Without coming into contact with plastic or seed oils. That is how the Aristocrats of history used to live like.>>94827492They were family. Literally. The Aristocrats had more children per-capita than the peasants. Every single generation a lot of people of noble descent would intermarry with the commoners, because there was not enough to inherit.The concept of hating the commoners only started with the Industrial Revolution with the population growth and the emergence of primitive modern medicine. People didn't die of common diseases like the cold anymore, but these known and relatively mild diseases were suddenly replaced with new ones, which they didn't have a cure for and which were much more terrifying. This made nobles think being poor caused disease. Which was a correct correlation to make. But this was LONG after the nobility stopped being a warrior aristocracy.
>>94827545>Industrial Revolution with the population growth and the emergence of primitive modern medicineThe industrial revolution was more or less the low point of medicine. "Proper" doctors had worse child mortality rates than traditional midwives because they did not wash their hands. And the guy that did the research to show this was kicked out.
>>94827451Because the rich people got rich through managing farms or business and not being able to supervise or see what's happening without waiting for someone else to see it and report back to you isn't great for business.
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>>94827451Nobility =/= Rich people.Many nobles were glorified farm owners and many lived in poverty and had very similar standards of living to their subjects. Even the king himself would perform rituals like washing the poor's feet to signal that he was in communion with his people. Absolute contempt for the poor was only a thing of the bourgeois.
Typical D&D doesn't consider and account for its own monsters and existence of magic anyway, so why not?
>>94827545>every aristocrat would do the same thing that I decided if they were transported to the modern dayNo they wouldn't.>akshtually it's this one reason at that one time that created this natural phenomenon and nothing else!No, the class divide isn't caused by your retarded reason.Try to understand the humans of your time before assuming shit about the past.
>>94829612>Even the king himself would perform rituals like washing the poor's feet to signal that he was in communion with his people.I can recall only one king ever doing that and the man was declared a saint.
