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Long-time RPG player and GM. Outside of that, I'm a public school history teacher.

Check out my blog, where I talk about using history to make better RPG stories, and my designs on Itch/DTRPG/DMsGuild.

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    @LeviKornelsen not sure about Africa and India but in Precolonial Americas, definitely. Also east Asia with the breaking apart and reforming of Chinese dynasties. I think the main thing people forget is that the eras don’t line up with European eras, but the way to delineate eras still are applicable.

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    You know what I love?

    Branches of ancient technology that dead-ended somewhere, but could have carried on in the right conditions.

    In my head, that's deeply engaging fantasy material for doing "Things are weird and different here".

    So if you know of sources for that stuff: Grabby hands

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    @LeviKornelsen Semi-related, but Alchemy becoming discredited is like this to me. Medieval alchemy was not just lead-into-gold / elixir-of-life stuff, but was basically proto-chemistry. This guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Principe) has done a lot of work on translating alchemy into modern chemistry to prove that they weren't nonsense, so any of his books would be good material.

    So I'm imagining a world where alchemy is not displaced and we have a more mystical & secretive form of the sciences.

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    @LeviKornelsen The parallel to water control is food control--there's a lot of medieval laws around poaching.

    -Control of heat (laws concerning chopping firewood)

    -Religion, and hand-in-hand, tradition and customary law (your father always worked for me, so you also must). Late Rome even had laws saying that you must follow the same profession as your father or face legal punishment.

    -Public shaming/getting you to spy on your neighbors. Very common particularly alongside religion in France.

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    It's been a minute; let's do this again:

    If you are a Tabletop RPG nerd and have less than, say, 500 followers (or think you have less than 500 that are actually active):

    1. Write a post to introduce yourself and your particular nerdery, if you haven't already got one pinned.

    2. Reply in the comments with a link to or copy of that post.

    3. Share, check back to find people you want to follow, all that.

    veritastabletop ,
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    @LeviKornelsen Thanks for doing this! Intro post here: https://dice.camp/@veritastabletop/112170623446750373

    Short version: I write about using history as a way to improve ttrpgs, including a lot of worldbuilding! I also write supplements & reviews for various systems + system-agnostic stuff.

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    veritastabletop ,
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    @LeviKornelsen the hanseatic league cities (Lubeck, etc) in Renaissance Europe. I’d also say a lot of the Swahili Coast city states (ex: Kilwa Sultanate).

    veritastabletop , to random
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    One of the coolest parts about getting involved in the #ttrpg space as a designer and joining mastodon was seeing @slyflourish favorite my introduction post. I remember reading SlyFlourish's blog back when I was first learning to DM back when I was maybe 13? Really cool just to think that Mike Shea has seen something I wrote (even if its just an introduction post).

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    @slyflourish Lot of years since I started playing and you started writing! More than a decade. Thanks for the many years of advice!

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