[Discuss] BM Setting

[Tom Vogt]

Lyman Stone schrieb:
> nto Japanese, not Hindi(sorry, I dont know what languages are spoken 
> in India), not any African language, or Arabic, or Chinese of any 
> variation. Which means (of course there is more variety, but, as a 
> general guideline) we're dealing with, at least, a European feudal 
> system.
>
> Plus, the emphasis on the feudal system, and its strong power, is a 
> medieval development, and begins to collapse, partly due to, and 
> partly responsible for, the rise of the great trading cities where 
> serfs can flee to and... lo and behold.... make money.
>
> And I think we can all agree Greece and Rome are not in BM "cultural 
> eras", they're farther away than nuclear weapons and tanks.
>
> Naturally, BM cant be pinned to exactly one time period or culture, it 
> is more diverse than specifically one time period. But, we are, I 
> believe, supposed to function using medieval, european, guidelines. 
> Which means we dont use words like citizen when referring to the 
> peasents. The biggest difference I can see between BM and feudal 
> Europe is gender roles. Gender has almost total equality in BM, though 
> women get a number of special guilds they can join in FEI and Ata. ; ) 
> Hey, now there's an idea, try and get a patriarchal realm going in 
> some place.... can we ban based on gender? lol

To end this debate - and someone please  put it up on the Wiki:

BM is modeled strongly after medieval Europe, although not to any 
specific time period. Many eras are mixed, and whatever I consider most 
interesting in any of them put into the game. Democracy, republic, etc. 
are definitely government systems from the very end of the middle ages, 
if not from even later, while cannons (invented long before democracy) 
aren't. The Theocracy is not even from Europe as I don't know any actual 
examples of one (well, the Papal states during late italian times maybe, 
but that goes towards the Renaissance more than the Middle Ages).


So there is your answer: BM is very similar to feudal medieval Europe, 
no specific time period, and not even very authentic as I've taken 
liberties everywhere I thought it makes for a more interesting game.



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