SJohnRoss , (edited )
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Everyone who does FRPG dips into history, to varying degrees, and applies or ignores it, to varying degrees. Specific interests exert heavy gravity:

History: "He led the expedition with twenty armed valets and two-dozen crossbowmen."
Me: Cannot possibly give a shit SHUTTUP WITH THIS BORING CRAP.

History: "Innkeepers often took responsibility for elder care in their neighborhoods, even to the extent of --"
Me: OMFG YES GIMME GIMME MINE MINE MINE.

nyrath ,
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@SJohnRoss

Once when I was a teenager, my parents took my siblings and I to a museum. I found it boring (no spaceships)

...until we entered the section full of medieval artifacts.

Suddenly I was riveted by all the material that I could harvest for my D&D campaign

SJohnRoss OP , (edited )
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@nyrath For me the childhood marriage of games and history started with the Gangbusters RPG and a public library with books about 1920s automobiles, silent films, and popular music. 😁

[The game shop where I became a gamer, and said public library, were about 50 feet from one another, which was HUGELY convenient, not least of which for the library's photocopier ... New blank character sheets for a nickel!]

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