I just prefer historically accurate medieval level aesthetics, culture and societal structure for even high fantasy settings because that’s what I find more appealing. I don’t care for traditional high fantasy aesthetics very much.
>but high fantasy-type magic would make the world evolve differently
I don’t care, and it should apply with urban fantasy too by that logic, they made it work with Arthurian Romances and Charlemagne songs you can make it work now. And you can mix it in with an extremely exaggerated fantasy-version of real medieval occult beliefs to make it more interesting
>*mudcore darkages burn the witch stereotypes the middle ages*
Fuck off teen

>>95866207 (OP)
Here's your historically accurate medieval level aesthetics, culture and societal structure

>>95866207 (OP)
I'd agree if I didn't hate the pants men wore in the Middle Ages.

>>95866239
You need to take the fashion pill. 200 years of Great Male Renunciation have brainwashed you against the variety of male clothing that was available for thousands of years.

>>95866207 (OP)
That’s pre-Raphaelite art, not medieval.
Do you even enjoy book illuminations ?

>>95866469
I get what you want to convey, but I can't get over the fact they make the underwear look like diapers.
I'd rather have my character wear a pre-medieval tunic which would today attract sneer for its likeness to a woman's skirt.

>>95866207 (OP)

Ok.

>>95866550
It depends on the fit. The white part is usually concealed by a longer shirt/tunic/skirt, and in time fashion favored shorter tops which led to the exact issue of people seeing the unfashionable baggy underwear, and there was a solution to that tool

the codpiece

I don't care about realism. Whatever "time" settings my games take place in have pants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iDs7kJDmvc
CHARLEMAGNE?

>>95866642
You see, it’s not just about ‘realism’ for the sake of ‘realism’ but an autistic passion for the era

>>95866207 (OP)
>I just prefer historically accurate medieval level aesthetics
OP pic unrelated I assume?

>>95866207 (OP)
Care to show your campaign notes? What system are you using?

>>95866207 (OP)
>historically accurate
You mean idealised.
And you also mean games that are still playable instead of "wow that dagger wound got infected and I'll now die in the most anticlimactic way".