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What should the tech level be?

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Voting closed: October 05, 2018, 12:14:58 AM

Stuff like firearms were becoming common, the dark age beliefs that God created everything were being challenged, people sought both a return to democracy and the Great Empires of old, like the Roman Empire... all of which can certainly be useful to keep in mind.

I'll see if I can't find a video explaining people's day-to-day lives and their tech for the time.

While we've agreed on the tech level, we haven't actually talked about what the culture in this Wintreath will be...

This archive may be helpful:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/renaissance
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq/militaryhistory/earlymodernwar

I began watching a history channel documentary on the Italian Renaissance in particular, and one thing I find very interesting is the fact that great banking families gained a lot of political power, more so than classical nobles of their time.

The way I see this fitting in is a Wintreath divided by four major players: Houses Burdock and Valeria clinging to classical feudalism, House Telcontar serving as an invading force, and a bunch of merchants and bankers wishing to break free of the entire outdated system and creating their own rebellion, incorporating Doc's idea.

That way, we explore multiple facets of the period, and give everyone some sort of way into the RP, whether they want to join a House or not. Granted, this will be tricky to balance, but a Wintreath divided by these four spheres of influence would be pretty cool to explore.

EDIT: This has nothing to do with tech, but the philosophy of the time.

The United Free Cities welcome all members of the novus homo into our like-minded brotherhood.
Should the nobility refuse to let us join their privileged ranks, we shall rise against them!
Wintreath for Wintreans, not Valerians!

Heresy.

And the war propaganda starts already. This is going to be good.

I would be careful about School of Life. Based on what I've seen people studying philosophy say/think about it, I've heard criticisms of oversimplification (past the point that is necessary to explain to a layman), factual inaccuracy/misrepresentation, and also bias.

Am i assuming that this is DOA? It looked like it was going to be a lot of fun!