Quote from: Voros;949245The right details. Your idea about humours is authentic but more importantly sparks the imagination. Beyond illness, a mechanic rarely loved by players, humours could play an interesting role in the magic system and even character creation.

Banal historical details that impede play has already dragged down many a previous heartbreaker.

Quote from: Daztur;949967The biggest mistake people make is treating medieval nobility like its fossilized remnants in today's world, a bunch of fussy old rich people.

It's not a perfect analogy by a long shot but the most important thing is to get rid of that kind of thinking, make players think of the nobility like old school mafia families. Very very touchy but also very scary, sure there are idiots like Fredo Corleone or the Theon Greyjoy kid in John Wick but you still have to be careful in how you deal with them.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;950227The issue I have, and this is based ENTIRELY on what has been brought up SOLELY on this thread, is how limited a person not of noble birth's options are.  You either be a noble, or are attached to one, or you get hunted like a dog, no one has presented any other options.

Which begs the sincere question:  Is there any other option to allow for some sort of freewheeling adventure?

Quote from: RPGPundit;951514What doesn't fit in a Medieval Authentic campaign, at least for anything other than a group of brigands, is the typical D&D party of "freewheeling independent operators doing whatever they want and answering to no one".

Quote from: RPGPundit;951513I think if anything the bigger issue is looking at medieval nobility through a lens of quasi-marxist history; assuming they were all uncaring bastards who lived for decadence and treated all their vassals as mere tools and their peasants as expendable garbage.  Of course, there were some people like that, but they were the exception, not the rule.

Quote from: Daztur;951535Never really had an issue with that, the only time my players went out of their way to attack the nobility it was simply because the nobles were the ones with the money. Have had more issues with players disrespecting noble allies and then being shocked when the nobles just didn't laugh it off. Think they'd run through too many modules in which NPCs just grin and bear being shat on because it's that NPC's job to help the PCs along with their quest.