I hope you research real history to come up with campaign ideas
>>98911186No, I research real history because I find it fun and interesting. My games usually aren't very historically grounded due to various fantastic elements making things sufficiently different from real world that real history is of limited use as a reference.
I hope the moment you let 1 small part shine through your player immediately recognises what it's from and the twist is ruined.
>>98911186No, I have creativity and can improvise. Studying history is just a separate fun hobby.
>>98911186I just read fringe political and psychological theories (posadism, esoteric Hitlerism, Fourth Way, school shooter manifestos etc) and determine plot progression through tarot readings.Nobody has found out yet.
>>98911186History is boring and the reason why our world is so shit to this day, so no, I'm not wasting the little free time I have doing more research on it.
>try and research real history>author won't stop talking about how evil and patriarchal ancient greece wasJust put the information in the bag lil bro...
>>98911186All the atrocities elves are committing against humans in my campaign are lifted almost 1-for-1 from the Japanese persecution of the christians. Hell the elves in general are feudal japan in a Tolkinean coat of paint. All my players hate the elves like you would not believe. I’ve even got our table’s resident they/them ready to kill those damn treefuckers on sight.*sniff* I’m so proud.
>>98911491Based and Usagipilled
>>98911281I see you vtuber poster
>>98911186I research all kinds of stuff (history included) because I find it genuinely interesting and fun. I play TTRPGs because I find them and fiction enjoyable and fun, too. That said, they synergize really well.
>>98911491>artisans below peasants
>>98911198Chaotic evil
>>98911339>I want history>but no information about what these societies were actually likeThe Greeks were one of the most patriarchal societies of premodern history, bro, their only competition is the footbinders over in Ming/Qing.
>>98911186Everything can serve as inspiration. Most things derive from IRL stuff one way or another. Even if the DM takes inspiration from a game or a movie or an anime, or comic, those things likely took inspiration from history or cultural elements.Bottom line is, the more knowledge you have, including of historical stuff, the more tools you'll have at your disposal to create a good campaign. The more stuff you can take inspiration from.
>>98911673I don't know how accurate that is, but I suppose the logic would be that they knew the importance of farmers for society, specially in their case where most of their diet was rice.Craftsman are almost always at least moderately respected, though it depends on what they craft and how good they are at it. Something like a master smith would be pretty well respected I imagine.
>>98911186Fuck no, life as a forever DM has taught me you fuckers don't deserve any real effort.I can get a plot ready, have NPCs, events, and all of that good stuff clearly mapped out for a game of political intrigue in the prospering kingdom of [insert medieval name here] only for you fuckers to steal a galleon off the city docks and begin a life of pirating.So you'll get minimal effort and we're flying by the seat of our pants here.
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>>98911673>>98911841Anons, the Japanese went through constant famines back in the day. So yeah, the people whose job was to make food were considered to be important when you lost a few thousand people to hunger every couple years, and thus they enjoyed the perks of status because hunger could ravage a province just as effectively as an invading army. Food was so scarce that they had good rice they saved for special occasions as if it was a bottle of scotch.Merchants on the other hand, were seen as nomads, moving from place to place, pledging loyalty to no one in particular, being in it for the money. Couple that with the peasantry being, well, peasants, easily tricked out of their money (without even going into snake oil salesmen) and there was a healthy distrust for merchants. It would end up in the pretty unusual situation where merchants could end up making fortunes, some of them rivaling the amounts of money that Samurai were making (Samurai were paid in land, usually rice paddies, because as we all know, food was valuable) but still being thought of as the scum of the earth because they were merchants. Being denied service in favor of local peasants at the teahouse for example. Please like and subscribe, and hit the little bell icon for more instructive videos like this one.
>>98911186I've been trying to but I'm not sure what source to trust to make it semi-believable
>>98911654it's the metaphysical system(s) that allows for that human skeleton to ride that horse skeleton which I find so intriguing...like it clearly doesn't work in our world (anymore/yet?), but why/how does it work in other worlds?
Ww1 is the background action for my parties attempt to stop the last efreet from getting his revenge on humanity and Yaveh. Plot twist is he already got revenge when Yaveh killed his brother and turned him into the holy ghost. 3.5 btw
>>98911673>>98911841>>98911956It's from the 士農工商 or Shì nóng gōng shāng which in English is called the four occupations.It's a bit of Confucian and Legalist philosophy from around the Eastern Zhou and is the fundamentals of most sinosphere social orders (in Japanese its shinōkōshō in Korean it's 사농공상).The Shi represent either warrior nobles (early Chinese and basically all of Japanese history) or scholar gentry (most of Chinese and Korean history).I'm sure it's fairly obvious as to why the scholars and warrior nobles would have themselves at the top of the pile.The farmers (農) being the second most important is because of how taxes work in an agrarian society. The nobles, landowners, the state and the scholars that served the state, all gained their income from taxing grain thus the farmer becomes the key economic driver as far as the tax system is concerned. Merchants 商 are the lowest class because they create wealth from nothing (remember agrarian economic theories) - this is especially compounded when a Marquis has an annual salary of 200,000 cash coins and the merchant he owes money to has land worth 1000 jin of gold (10,000,000 cash coins more or less).Japan and Korea were particularly strict in their stratification, there's a fair amount of evidence that the Chinese, depending dynasty had more overlap between the professions.
>>98911186>son of a head of state>didn't know who Hitler was
>>98911186Nigga, some of us are living in a historical moment.Survey your surroundings.Half of Europe seems to be either on fire or about to catch.Now is the time for positioning and preparation.
>>98912483In Gundam, the wars were so bad for the population and the environment, that people gave up on nations to form a single world government and move half of humanity to space stations.And the first anime series, from which the image is from, happens 79 years after that.Ghiren Zabi (the guy in OP) not knowing who Hitler was is like Trump Junior not knowing who was Peter the Great.
>>98911186Nope, I read fiction instead, because I'm creating a fictional world, not trying to recreate accurate battles.
>>98911971>it's the metaphysical system(s) that allows for that human skeleton to ride that horse skeleton which I find so intriguing...>like it clearly doesn't work in our world (anymore/yet?), but why/how does it work in other worlds?Do you mean the bio-mechanical systems or the general logistics of animal riding?
>>98911186I research real history to validate my prejudices.
>>98914351fiction is based on real world events one way or another.
>>98911186Sounds shallow. General curiosity for a wide range of topics helps in all creativity, especially fantasy world building and storytelling, which are the most valuable skills for a GM.Reading real history and fiction are both useful. Not because you're a shallow idiot copying something you read in a book, but because everything you learn or consume forms a broader fabric of your understanding and you can draw from that for any creative works. Besides, half of history is the fiction people wrote about their own experience of the world and the other half is clay and bones dug out of the sand. But the fun is comparing the two and theorizing on the truth. Unless of course you're the type of idiot who says "I like reading about history" and what you actually mean is just "I'm obsessed with world war 2".
>>98914384The real world is a fiction we tell ourselves. Checkmate.
>>98911760I want history. I don't want the moral grandstanding, political virtue signalling, and half baked philosophical takes you got from some tranny in a blue wig. Put the information. In the bag. Lil' bro.
>>98914461Retarded girls on tumblr misusing an academic word doesn't mean that word is theirs. You're seeing people use the word for its actual intended purpose here and you're getting triggered. Patriarchal is a real word referring to elements of a society's structure. It's not philosophy. It's anthropology. If you are not a fan of philosophy though, why the fuck are you reading about the fucking greeks?
>>98914380that, but also if you took off all the meat and it still "worked'; like the magic mechanics behind functional skeletons.
>>98914510>like the magic mechanics behind functional skeletons.Ah.Well Skeletons are an integral part of anatomy, you basically need some kind of skeleton to move around with negligible buoyancy, otherwise you'd end up like an octopus on dry land.In a magical biomechanical setup, the magic has to do most if not all of the other work meat normally does; The bones give you a physical scaffolding, but you are still going to need something like tendons to hold them together, and something like muscle to move them.
>>98911971>make dinosaurs go pew-pew in the 80s>it flops
>>98914594they were ahead of their time. It would be a big hit these days.
>>98914594>>98914600This was also when the Oil Crisis started, which generally killed big ass plastic toy play patterns for a while.
>>98911186What kind of historic event most matches the common "evil overlord with swarms of minions attempting to take over the world" trope?
>>98914641I think the closest we've gotten is World War 2/Second Sino-Japanese War...
>>98914641Depends on what you classify as a minion I guess?
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>>98914641Napoleon
>>98914665Again we're in an Oil Crisis, in the 90's we had the Jurassic Park craze that briefly resurged with Jurassic World.
>>98914674it's just an unfortunate twist of fate that the times it would be most popular there happens to be an oil crisis.
>>98914419chatGPT produced indian reply.
>>98914461>>98914504I understand the frustration as someone who is a bit of a history nerd.Patriarchal is a part of the working vocabulary of anthropology, but it's use is conflated with the current trends in feminist theory when brought up by most pop articlesIn a literal sense it refers to societies that track descent through a male lineage and prefer male only or male preferred property law as a tool of military and political control, and many matrilineal societies such as the Iroquois still contained many of the elements of what we commonly think of as PatriarchalThey recorded their genealogy from a different perspective and while women did play a larger role in their societies, often times the role of women in societies we refer to as patriarchal are understated due to the way first hand historical sources are recordedClassical Athens as an example for Greece's "extremely patriarchal" society is not that different for 90% of those it ruled from that of something like the home life for less organized tribal societies that surrounded them. The rural Attic Greeks in the countryside were divided into political Parishes whose agendas we have only vague notions of, and likely most inhabitants who were not on the Citizen's Roll List or classified as ineligible for military service were likely to begin and end their whole lives solving disputes on a local levelThe urban Greeks were obsessively political by almost every metric. Extremely top heavy societies usually are, but the Greeks also found it a useful identifier in whom was also considered a Trve Greek In order to compete at the highest level, women in this social class were a card you kept close to your chest because the ties of Nepotism are a strong double edged sword. The wrong marriage could have your family exterminated, and the right one will see 200+ years of political domination. As such, you mostly get a situation were history is written by Nobles for other Nobles, and very little else
>>98914711Anon just because you can't write full sentences doesn't mean it's a challenge for everyone else.
>>98911186Real history has no bearing on any of the campaigns I run or play in.
>>98914986he's one of those freaks who says he's super into history but when you let him talk about it he's actually just into fetishizing the aesthetics of world war 2 and he doesn't know that much history.
>>98914674>>98914681it works in any crisis, it's just that historically adults typically forget to weaponize the dinosaurs for the kids every few generations
>>98911491>"Code of Bushido">Misspells DaimyoShit chart
>>98916398Beast Wars megatron was more than just a dinosaur-themed villain, he was iconic. His VA is also super chill but he's still never going to say "put it in my ass"
