I'm tired of faux medieval settings. What games are set up during the early modern era?
DND
>today I'd like to fuck Mr Beana woman's mind truly is an enigma.
warhammer fantasy
>>97951283Only if you're in the Empire
>>97951309Kislev is early modern Russia
>>97951204Traditional games?
>>97951204That pic would go hard if I didn't know what it was from.
>>97951204Honor+Intrigue
>>97951660Blackadder, season 2.
>>97951441Yeah. They even have their own "Nuln," in Erengrad. Or at least they did, I don't know how the recent changes Kislev to turn them into World of Warcraft epic simply epic Bear Cavalry land have changed other details.
>>97951309Empire, Tilea, Kislev, southern Estalia, and the dwarf karaks are all "early modern." Bretonnia is a deliberate regressive enclave made up for by elf magic. Northern Estalia is a bumpkin land. Araby used to be competitive with Tilea in terms of cultural/technological sophistication, but they never really recovered from their ill-conceived skaven alliance and the crusades.
>>97951280Not that you'd know.
Lace & SteelFurry Pirates
>>97951204All those "medieval" settings are early modern.
>>97951204Most settings are early modern. The only truly medieval setting I can think of right now is Pendragon.
>>97951749The fuck you think an enigma is? enigma balls
>>97951888>>97952012Roman Empire = iron ageFeudalism = middle agesAbsolute monarchy = early modernI think lots of settings have feudal societies, even if some early modern technology (e. g., plate armor and rapiers) is mixed in.
>>97952937>I think lots of settings have feudal societies, even if some early modern technology (e. g., plate armor and rapiers) is mixed in.You said it yourself, though; early modern societies are dominated by Absolute Monarchies, which are absolutely present in the vast majority of fantasy settings. The existence of sniveling dukes or rebellious counts does not refute this because nobility still existed (and in many ways reached their cultural zenith) under Absolute Monarchies.
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>>97951204>>97951283For a long time, I've wanted to run a WFRP game where the players are members or contractors for the Roadwardens managing a rural fort.
>>97954529I'd join that game.
>>97954089>early modern societies are dominated by Absolute MonarchiesNo? Absolute monarchies weren't dominant until the 19th century. The Holy Roman Empire was absolutely an extremely and regressive feudal state while Russian landowners of the early modern period could easily wield power to oppose the tsar and England was a full on constitutional monarchy who deposed two uppity monarchs. In the 18th century the only real absolutist monarchs were the kings of France and Spain.Absolutism as most people envision it is absolutely a post-napoleonic invention with the later Austrian, German, and Russian empires where hereditary substates were either nonexistent or wholly and unequivocally subordinate to monarch of the central state. Even if one views Austria as a singular state instead of a substate within the empire (even if the Austrian monarch's highest title was derived from his position within the empire) his rule was far from absolute with internal foes within Bohemia and Hungary regularly and often successfully opposing his authority on a legal basis.WW1 is more dominated by absolute monarchies than Napoleon, much less with 16th century of Shakespeare and the Italian Wars or the 17th century of the 30 Years War.
>>97954684>Absolute monarchies weren't dominant until the 19th century.The Early Modern era period absolute monarchy in places like France, Russia, Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire, Qing China, Safavid Persia, Saudi Arabia, Indian princely states, Tokugawa Japan. That's huge swathes of the world and its population from 1500s to 1800, before the 19th century you say they became dominant.inb4 Tokugawa Japan had a titular emperor with power resident in the hereditary shogun who was a military leader not royalty. Shogun was de facto monarch even if not royalty.inb4 Saudi Arabia wasn't a state back in the Early Modern period.
>>97954089I think you can go further. The common tropes of fantasy settings include far more modern institutions than medieval ones. Things like standardised currency and language, city guards, paid soldiers, formalised relations between church and state, the idea of a state as opposed to just what an individual noble/royal personally rules. Technology wise it's a mish mash of perhaps a thousand years of history with warriors with maille and battle axes facing full plate and two-handed swords. There's also the weird anachronism of gunpowder being absent from many settings, despite including later inventions.>>97954684Your definition of the age of absolutism doesn't include Louis XIV.
What are some interesting fantasy twist that you can pull with Early Modern Fantasy as opposed to Medieval one? I know that this era there was A LOT more witch-burning than there ever was during the whole middle ages, despite the scientific revolution and the renaissance, in great part due the vicious religious schisms exacerbated by a rising middle classes and the printing presses.
>>97951309All the books are set in the empire.
>>97951700Anon, I....
>>97956688Guns, obviously, become dominant. In a fantasy setting you have to really watch your powder safety. For example, in a WFRP game, I had a vampire command poltergeists to detonate a powder magazine.
Warhammer fags are insufferable.
>>97951749>Anon says I don't understand women>other anon, angry, replies "not that you'd understand women"The literally ratio of /tg/ is at off-time low.
>>97951499What the fuck is wrong with you? If you have to keep posting that, can't you keep it to the actually off-topic threads?
>>97951204
>>97957308Its not the same guyThere is a falseflagger and two trolls and two honest that use that phrase.
>>97951280>he wouldn't fuck Mr. Bean
>>97956688Depending on setting metaphysics, the printing press might spell a disaster of half assed hedgewizards with access to copies of magical tomes (whether legal printings or not).
>>97951499Lurk more./tg/ isn't just for traditional games.
>>97957402Bean? No. Most of the Blackadders? Yes.
>>97958128What's your tierlist? I can confidently declare season 1 at the bottom (not in that way) but the rest are a toss-up of tossers.
>>97958171What about Blackadder 40k?
>>97951280>Burgeroid doesn't understand the magnificent BlackadderFor shame
>>97951706Man imagine how OP Brettonia would be if that guy didn't get his ass kicked by a crossbow.
>>97956688>guns>Printing press and scholarly shit>new clothes>zenith of plate armor>the new world>a few real "standing armies">Star forts>Mercenaries becoming even more popular>etc.And of course those religious schisms and witch hunting you were talking about. Imo there's plenty of room for classic adventuring as well as cool new tech and a far larger world where (later) medieval tropes and "modern" tropes can coexist. Watch/read Altariste it's kino af btw.
>>97951204>early modernFuck that. Where are the RPGs that are set in current day real world, right now?
>>97958975based Rocroi enjoyer
>>97958975>AlatristeMy man. You see the praise "Every frame looks like a painting" thrown around way too often. Alatriste is one of the rare movies where it's true.
>>97959204Go find the World of Smegma thread.
>>97956688Unironically purely medieval fantasy as opposed to early modern fantasy is probably more interesting than purely early modern, because like >>97951224 said, dnd derivate slop already uses it in droves. It also was used by warhammer fantasy, and the result was essentially mudcore.In the purely middle ages you had more unhinged shit happening all the time. But early modern was the starting of the great cuckening and great shittery by modern states.
>>97958201Top of the ziggurat.
>>97958171NTA but I'd go for:2: really the poster child for what some well-considered and well-kept facial hair can do for a man.Goes Forth: really these next two are a toss-up, but I think Rowan really suits a moustache so that edges it.Third: a good period hairstyle, nice clothing... really, I'm quite weak to Regency.Christmas Carol"The".
>>97958171Yes yes, which Blackadder would you fuck is all well and good, but which Blackadder is most likely to fuck (You) is the real question
>>97958945Go look at some 80s stuff before WFB 4E.
>>97956877>but I do know what it's from
>>97959783Oh they'd all fuck (you) in a heartbeat.It just wouldn't be in the sexual sense.
Ghastly Affair is set at the end of it.
>>97957385How do you know?
>>97962474Falseflagger gets super defensive when you say that it actually is /tg/ related (he does this because his own threads arent /tg/ and get "tg?" posted in them)Troll 1 specifically does this in game-specific threads to collect (you)s. The whole point is acting retardedTroll 2 does it everywhere for shits and giggles, doesnt reply.Honest 1 will reply and go on massive angry rantsHonest 2 will reply with sarcastic seethe never taking convo seriously (he assumes know this isnt /tg/ and are just trolling them)You will tell them apart with time
