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What is life like in a fantasy TTRPG starter village? Would it better than modern life?
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This is what the neighbor's daughter looks like
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>>98222014
Like the JRPG protagonist hometown, it's great until the village is burned down by the antagonist, which is 95% certain. The remaining 5% it gets burned down by the party.
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>>98222014
>What is life like in a fantasy TTRPG starter village?
Read Rise of the Runelords, because you're talking about Sandpoint.
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>>98222014
>Would it better than modern life?
No dentist
No toilet paper
No availability of media (save maybe a few books in a church or temple, nearly none of which you learn to read)
Limited diet
Long work hours and/or your life is ruled by constantly completing household or subsistence tasks even as "fun"
The chance of someone you speak to being an evil doppleganger is low but never zero
"Gee I wonder if today is the day local monsters remember we can do nothing to stop them eating our hearts"
Objective cosmic morality means at least some of your natural urges were put there by devils to fuck with you
There's an afterlife, so you're going to live your entire life in a state of existential dread about hell
Spirits forbid you should even be slightly unusual, because your fuckass relatives might sling you out of the family home and make you become an adventurer
Road to the nearest town is CR1-3 so you can kiss your ass goodbye if you want to go to market
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>>98222018
>>98222090
Yeah dude but you get to marry her cause there is no one else around.
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>>98222161
I'm already married.
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>>98222018
Looks trans
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>>98222090
You sound incredibly jewish
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>>98222014
>Would it better than modern life?
unless they used some kind of magic to improve crop yields and health to the point that they can afford not to spend half the day doing manual labor, then modern day is better
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>>98222018
Shit, I hope you didn't pay money for that.
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>>98222090
Your fantasy sucks.
You can think of anything you want, and you choose "shithole mudcore".
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>>98223032
Anon, if you're putting modern conveniences in your adventurous fantasy, you've already lost me.
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>>98222018
Can I impregnate her
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>>98223032
t. his "fantasy village" is just a modern suburban town but with a medieval aesthetic including modern conveniences and conepts out of nowhere
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>>98223058
You don't need to put in modern conveniences.

>No dentist
Teeth don't rot because no bacteria, no birth defects causing impacted teeth over time. Basic healing magic makes repairing teeth painless.

>No toilet paper
No such thing as bodily waste in this fantasy world. Bodies absorb food for nutrition/magical power.

>No availability of media
Nothing stopping people from reading/learning to read, wandering merchants sell books, ink, & paper.

>Limited diet
There can be a variety of strange fruits, veggies, & meat for the village hunters to acquire.

>Long work hours
It doesn't have to work that way in a world of magic.

>evil dopplegangers
You can choose not to have these things exist.

>nothing to stop monsters eating our hearts
The fantasy village can have capable warriors to defend it just as easily as it can't.
You can choose.

>Objective cosmic morality
Don't include alignment and/or make the majority good.

>There's an afterlife, so you're going to live your entire life in a state of existential dread about hell
Alternatively, the majority of people in the fantasy world can be kindhearted and altruistic without expecting reward like the selfish faggots of our world, and the merit of character is measured more strongly by deed than our corrupt piece of shit world.

>Spirits forbid you should even be slightly unusual
Again, it doesn't have to be that way.
You don't have to include divergent mental/physical traits, but you have chosen to do so.

>Road to the nearest town is CR1-3 so you can kiss your ass goodbye if you want to go to market
Have abilities available for low level adventurers that allow them to not get murderfucked by basic enemies.
Abilities that could perhaps be learned by channeling one's innate magic through unarmed strikes, weapons, or raw energy, taught through wandering mentors or the myriad of books that would be available, thanks to mudcore illiteracy rates not being a thing.
Because it's fucking fantasy.
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>>98223179
You lost me at "Lol nobody poops", and I was already real suspect at the "Lol no birth defects, no dentistry issues"
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Except for the tiny sliver of exceptional individuals all normal humans in RPG fantasy worlds live implicitly under the constant threat of being horribly killed by various superpredators or subjected to a fate worse than death by malevolent entities. Only begging for the grace of your superiors can save you. This dynamic plays out all the way to the highest levels of reality where the only thing that prevents the evil gods from torturing everyone forever is the intervention of good gods. Likewise a village is powerless against the many, many horrors that fill the Monster Manual unless a nearby group of heroes are willing to put their lives on the line to protect them. Of course if the heroes decide to exploit and abuse the villagers nothing but another group of heroes can save them.
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>>98223196
I argue that a big pit will stop about 60% of things in the monstrous manual, based on how fall damage works across most editions.
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>>98222014
>>98222018
Traditional games?
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>>98222018
>puckee aka redditor puckeā„®21 spamming his commission again
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>36 times since May 2024
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>>98222018
Imagine wasting money commissioning this
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>>98223192
It's fantasy without modern conveniences.
You lose.
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>>98223109
Yes
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>>98222014
I you want a good game centered around a TTRPG starter village I would recommend Beyond the Wall. Easy to get into, quick to starte and the character generation also generate the village, to like the players to the starter village.
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>>98223718
Learn english.
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>>98222018
built for Beastman cock
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>>98222090
>No dentist
Your teeth would be in far better condition just by the lack of refined sugars in your diet.
>No toilet paper
You will be surprised by how little use is there for toilet paper if you eat right and let yourself actually digest your meal.
>No availability of media
The church festival is just around the corner anon and it lasts for two weeks.
>Long work hours
You will be surprised by how wrong you are. Look it up. "medieval" peasants worked far less hours per year than the modern debt slaves.
>The chance of someone you speak to being an evil doppleganger is low but never zero
Well the ZOG actually rules these parts of the world so, uh...
>Objective cosmic morality means at least some of your natural urges were put there by devils to fuck with you
Your natural urges can completely fuck you up if left unchecked even if demons have nothing to do with it.
>There's an afterlife, so you're going to live your entire life in a state of existential dread about hell
Or you live your life in a state calmness and hopefulness because eternal reward is also a thing.
>Spirits forbid you should even be slightly unusual, because your fuckass relatives might sling you out of the family home and make you become an adventurer
Good. Being an adventurer is dope. Chicks love that.
>Road to the nearest town is CR1-3 so you can kiss your ass goodbye if you want to go to market
Not if your fuck up of a cousin who is a lvl 3 adventurer comes along for the lolz.
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>>98223923
>Your teeth would be in far better condition just by the lack of refined sugars in your diet.
complex sugars can cause cavities in sufficient quantities
and thats an inevitability in a pre-industrial society that eats primarily carbs

>You will be surprised by how little use is there for toilet paper if you eat right and let yourself actually digest your meal.
your life will be worse without toilet paper, how are we even arguing this

>The church festival is just around the corner anon and it lasts for two weeks.
you still work those 2 weeks

>You will be surprised by how wrong you are. Look it up. "medieval" peasants worked far less hours per year than the modern debt slaves.
no, thats actually right
the "peasants work less hours" is a pop culture myth
peasants worked roughly the same amount of time a modern wage slave does, its just more lopsided with a lot more work being done in some parts of the year compared to others
but peasant work was much, much more physically demanding
when you factor in obligatory work to the lord and non-farming related work like repairs, they can easily exceed modern work hours while having much harder work for the same hours
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>>98223961
>and thats an inevitability in a pre-industrial society that eats primarily carbs
Good thing that they didn't eat primarily carbs or at least they used to eat far less carbs than we do now. I am not saying that a dentist would be a bad thing to have, but they would be far less essential than now.
>your life will be worse without toilet paper,
Actually chew your meal, fast for at least 5 hours between meals, avoid drinking liquids with your meal and for two hours after the meal and fast at night. Do that for a couple of days and see how much toilet paper you actually need. It's what I do when I go forest camping and it works like a charm.
>you still work those 2 weeks
Maybe, but you are not in a dopamine withdrawal state due to a lack of media, I can tell you that.
>work hours
I 've seen that argument and they usually factor in stuff like cooking and repairing/cleaning your house or raising your children as work and that seems preposterous to me. And yes peasant work was much more physically demanding sure but that promoted better physical (and mental) health. I 've seen grandmas in their 80s that lived like peasant workers that can still trek 10km of mountain passes daily while a 60yo with a desk job can barely use the stairs or get in a car that is not a raised up crossover.

What I would miss dearly in a faux medieval setting without or with limited magic is antibiotics and tetanus shots. A minor accident or an altercation with a wild animal could quickly turn fatal.
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>>98223179
>Fantasy only works if you wilfully believe in the worldview of a credulous retard.
I wanted to be contemptuous, but I actually pity you.
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>>98222018
Like AI slop?
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>>98225050
you can see the brushstrokes though
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>>98225016
Where was worldview ever brought into the conversation?
You can make your fantasy game function however you want, that's what the point is about you fucking faggot.
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>>98226878
I can't imagine a square circle or an all-red all-green object. Some things are just laughable.



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