>accidentally used modern day watermelons in my low fantasy medieval setting
You described the watermelons in detail.I wonder, why?
>>92718532Real earth? Why would that be too. much of a problem? They were domesticated in ancient egypt and found their way into europe during roman times. If not real earth than this is even more of a non-issue.
>>92718532That’s ok, GRRM uses corn and turkeys, Tolkien uses tomatoes and potatoesIt’s just fantasy
>>92718785Never understood why people get hang up on that. Even if we want to be pedantic, in fantasy worlds as long as they come from places similar to the ones they developed in IRL and are actively being domesticated instead of wild there's literally no problem with incorporating those plamts into your world.
>>92718785Does he? I thought corn in asoiaf was just grain, not maize
>>92718584Exotic fruit from Africa, alas the old one looks even more exotic.>>92718700Because they didn’t use to look like that.
>>92719161>Because they didn’t use to look like that.Is your game set in real earth? If not just handwave it as them being domesticated relatively earrlier in their social development
>>92719181Better yet, just say it's actually waetermaylon, a fruit native to these lands and it just happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to a modern watermelon.
>>92718972He describes sweet corn and eating it on the cob
>accidentally used modern day smartphones in my low fantasy medieval setting
>>92719277We've all done that at least once. It's an easy mistake to make.
>>92719277Embrace it and go for the great reset alt history
Is it so unfeasible to think that potato could grow wild in a otherwise medieval europe esque setting? It can survive in that climate so why wouldnt it be able to grow wild?
>>92720261Maybe? But the issue there is more about how domesticated it had become at that point and whether it could survive wild anywhere at all.
>had my characters used sextant celestial navigation, despite there not being accurate timepieces yet in the setting to support longitudinal c-nav Just kill me.
>>92718532>accidentally posted about settings on a board for games
>>92719224Really? There's a lot of description of food in those books but I always remembered it being conspicuously the sort of stuff you'd find in early modern England. Meat pies and mashed turnips as far as the eye can see...
>>92719277>>92719420>>92719650Which is lazier? Having modern technology in a fantasy setting, or reskinning a piece of technology as a "magic item"?
>players ask to forage for food>describe them finding some nice big delicious orange carrots >before I'm even done the sentence they push away from the table and leave >ignore my calls for days >finally one texts me after a week berating me for being a "massive fucking nincompoop" who doesn't know real medieval carrots would be brownish-white and look more like tree rootsThey're right to shit on me but it still hurts so much bros
>>92724160Depends. Laziest would be to have modern tech with no explaination. Less lazy is coming up with some sort of fantasy fluff to fill the role. The least lazy would be to have modern tech, but give a compelling reason for it's existance.And then there is the hyper lazy option of having modern conveniences such as high speed travel without any any form of explaination for how those conveniences are achieved whatsoever.
>>92718532Explain it as some fey shit or something. Make watermelons part of the fantasy.
>>92724160The latter, technology is part of fantasy as well.
>>92724160i can forgive sending stones. from a GM perspective they are useful to keep NPCs relevant and reachable without having them awkwardly tail the party or having to go to the guys house to ask him a throwaway question. its either that or wizards make a telegram service anyway
>>92718532The tourists and secondaries don't know, anon. Yet I remember, still.
>*detailed dungeon layout*>so, where do they poop?
>>92724160Sending stones are fine but mostly because sending stones are completely dogshit in practice. Its a 25 word Direct Message across the world or existence once a day, you can't get much worse than that, its a not even that good SMS.
>>92719277An NPC pulling out an iphone as a throwaway gag never gets old to me
>>92726348SMS were dope thoZoomers can't appreciate the classics
>>92726354Eh, I prefer rotary phone. Gives it more flavour.
>>92724160You say that as if sending stones aren't limited to 25 words, once per day, with a chance to fail when talking to other planes or spells that can block said sending. Or that sending stones are even that common.You can have "technology but magic" if you simpl make it scarce. Stop making the setting autolevel and you won't have to powercreep you dumbass.
>accidentally gave the orc warlord a 1983 Toyota HiluxI don't know how to walk this one back, lads.
>>92718584using them as a reference point for an NPCs massive tits
>>92726384Easy mistake to make. Even the official modules fall for that one from time to time.
>>92726404What the fuck am I looking at
>>92726404Wait I thought the "But you won't accept a Nissan in [setting]?!?!" was a joke...
>>92726887Canonical ending to the DnD cartoon
What if the anachronistic modern technology was aquired during a dimensionhopping adventure?
>>92727584Shoo. Back to your containment, retard.
>>92719277Excuse me but it's called a Teleslate and it runs on magitek thank you
>>92728235>can I have one, GM? I saw one in BotW!
>>92726404lmao
>>92724200>after europeanThat's straight up a lie. What an idiotic one, too.
>>92719277>>92728235Its a Black Mirror. There's a demon bound within it. Use it at your own peril. just like a regular smartphone
>>92726336Kek
>>92718532AWIZARD DIDIT
>>92718532just say they migrated to the continent, like coconuts.
>>92719277Wait, what? How do you "accidentally" have that happen?
>>92731161Are matermelons even buoyant?
>>92731232Well my phone started ringing, and I needed to answer but we were really getting into the mood of the game and I didn't want to break the flow of it, so I worked it into my plan for a fetch quest I was setting up to ease them into the campaign, but now the party's being given a quest to go pick up this farmer's prescription from the nearest town and I just don't know what to do about it
>>92718532How LOW can you GO?!?!
>>92735937Of course not Anon, the watermelon flew over the sea.
>>92720261It's not location, though they did take generations of mountainous breeding to come about in a recognisable manner, it's that it has such high caloric efficiency per acre and cold resistance, that population dynamics and levels of medieval Europe wouldn't apply, you'd get early modern society. Even if there where other factors diminishing the population, that would require a population much more militarily capable, thus no 3 estate system of warrior nobles, spiritual psychological assisting priests and labouring peasants.to be fair, a lot of settings are already like that.
>>92726887a car commercial in brazil.
>I accidentally described pigs as modern pink ones instead of hairy, sometimes black, medieval ones.
>>92724160Guy Who Hates Sending Stones, what do you think about the Cryptomancer setting?
>>92727117Of course not, that's a Renault
>>92738931>high caloric efficiency per acre and cold resistance, that population dynamics and levels of medieval Europe wouldn't apply, you'd get early modern societyBecause the Inca and Mayans were very well known for having Early Modern societies.
>>92726887Brazilian ad. D&D cartoon was huge here and people still love it, also Brazil for some weird reason has god tier ads in general.
>>92726384At some point they'll run out of Gasoline, you're fine unless they figure out oil.We're all boned if that happens, though.
>>92718532Bait post, but melons were big back then, too. picrel
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>>92740514You clearly don't know what was inside them. It was almost all pith.
>>92718532>DM’s NPC uses the term “Déjà vu” in our napoleonic war setting>doesn’t know that the term was coined over half a century later Might as well have them make fortnite references too.
>>92729062Mate, imagine being a demon stuck in a crypto miner or in a machine trying to run Crysis at max specs, shit's hotter than hell.
>>92739571worse, autocratic ancient/godking despotism, If they develloped ironworking they'd be closer to medieval china, but they didn't.society has many factors to it, being reductive helps no one, nor does being a disney channel raised brat.
>>92719277>get in combat in the middle of the townsquare>plebs pull out magic mirrors to record It as they chant 'Worldstar'
Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!Dire deeds awake: dark is it eastward.Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded!Forth Eorlingas!
>>92718532You court death, you must kowtow before the local lord and his inexhaustible men at arms immediately if you wish to keep your head
