Or at least two according to scholarly research I have heard of: the working class having the ability to be of majority in their teens while the noble classes are as you said 20ish. Essentially you aren’t wrong, but you aren’t totally right and painting over fine detail with too broad a brush. It certainly isn’t as cut and dried then as it isn’t cut and dried now.

Look, y’all need to up your scholarship game a bit. The Sagas ( as illuminated by Saga Thing) definitely has a high frequency of mentions of the Middle Ages Sagas as 13 being the time many of the notables of the Sagas start going off to ‘adventure’. In addition the book of court cases recently dug into by yourselves has legal arguments that present the case of age of majority being divided by the three estates.

So this probably inspired the portion of the early Module B1 where there is a large stone you have to place a portion in your mouth to activate the random magic.

I’ll disagree that the medieval people knew more about things because we don’t actually have a real sample. We just have a few surviving texts written by a very few people so therefore we don’t have enough data to come to an accurate conclusion about whether or not the sum total of people knew more than the current people know now.

Longeness is the name of a character in Modern Family

Congratulations, you are reinventing a wheel when it comes to currency and money changers. Gary was suggesting this In The 70’s!! So much lost history….

After we develop bread and cheese, why did he develop anything else? Because we didn’t wanna be constipated all the time?

The whole noble woman being married to a merchant is honestly a very common trope in many points in English society, where the husband is wealthy, and rescues the daughter whose father is in fiscal difficulties or issues and essentially he won’t have a title but his wife does, yet their children will have noble blood And therefore will have titles also. Actually brought up in Downton Abbey, where in the newspaper mogul is seeing how compatible he is with the first daughter of the Earl.

There is an entirely different POV on this. I’ll look up the papal letter from the 1950’s later on tonight.

I will point out that in the HERO RPG System players are discouraged from making characters that are more powerful in the day/ night as a whole. Because the player would ask “does this session occur during the day/night and then choose only to play the character when it is most powerful. Thus it was thought of in the 80’s and rejected as being inappropriate for certain situations.

In DND terms is a virgin boy now just an arcane focus?

During the tournament I would allow the players to make cheat attempts. BUT the referees can make spot checks to penalize the players for cheating!

I’ll hard disagree on naming characters. A. Gygax did that B. This lack of naming lets the story resound throughout the ages because it doesn’t age the stories by having older fads of names taking people out of thinking it ‘just happened’.

Ah, JFK as a Senator, “For the farmer, is the only man in our economy who has to buy everything he buys at retail - sell everything he sells at wholesale - and pay the freight both ways.”

Reminds me of one of the US presidents talking about farmers paying for freight both ways.

Where are the Journeymen? Where do they sit in this as they are past apprenticeships but not yet masters?

A square is a tool to allow one to make 90 degree angles to a surface.

So according to Colorado Carpenters the nail puller is called a Cats Claw.

I will point out Melf is M(ale) + Elf so elven gender distinctions were existing under Gary and I would like to see citations for Od&d having gender altering elves. That might not be impossible but seems unlikely given Gygaxes lifestyle.

So I knew A guy in the SCA who wore 22 bunny hides on each foot and it was surprisingly effective armor…