"Mediaeval" Settings
The wheel of Fortune, a prominent symbol in the mediaeval period You probably didn't want to hear this, but I am sick to shitting death of your generic high fantasy setting, with its various different races and professions (including professional adventurers a lot of the time), and its quasi-mediaeval setting... ...Yes, I said quasi-mediaeval. It's actually that quasi-mediaeval setting I'm most sick of, and I really wish people would do something different. But why? A setting based off mediaeval Europe seems to work well for a lot of plots and worlds, after all - it's foreign enough to make people feel like they're transported into another land and you don't have to worry about all those little things like historical accuracy. Sumer is icumen in , a 13th century English rota and possibly the oldest surviving example of independent melodic counterpoint The trouble is, it's overused - and it's overused in the worst possible way. Honestly, a ...