>fantasy series
>english is called "the common tongue"
>money is gold coins
>technology hasn't progressed in centuries
>fantasy series. >english is called "the common tongue". >money is gold coins
>fantasy series
>english is called "the common tongue"
>money is gold coins
>technology hasn't progressed in centuries
>woman character gets mentioned
>"The female?"
>woman character gets mentioned in modern day hood or barrio setting
>"the female?"
hasn't progressed in centuries
This is the biggest one. It only took ~200 years for Europe to go from learning about gunpowder to guns replacing bows.
Yeah but also maille was basically the best armour technology for 1000 years.
So it's specific to the technology.
But essentially you're correct, fantasy stories try to make everything like history but more epic. So instead of 100 knights it's 10,000 knights and instead of the dark ages lasting 500 years they last 5000 years.
>Yeah but also maille was basically the best armour technology for 1000 years.
Spoken like a true imbecile who has never looked into the technology of the medieval ages. Weapons, armor, metallurgy, philosophy; the medieval ages was the fastest growth of human knowledge the species had ever seen. What held it back was the centuries it took Europe to finally ask "what if the `great` ancient Greeks and Romans were in fact full of shit?"
What if gunpowder doesnt exist in that world? Have you thought of that huh?
Well, in the Forgotten Realms, wizards hunt down and kill people who make gunpowder. Only technology they approve of is allowed...or you die. The Gods also decided to cause gunpowder to be inert after someone did finally manage to overthrow the wizard cabal.
Wtf, how did they invent gunpowder before guns.
>look sire, I've invented gunpowder.
>amazing, what do we do with it?
>well, we have to wait for guns to be invented next
>what are guns?
>i have no idea
I seriously hope you're joking. I haven't heard anything this stupid since my parents forced me to go to church
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How did you edit your post?
Now if they had the science of futurolinguistics, they could have forseen the advent of the fire-arm and taken appropriate measures before it was invented.
American education everyone
>"look sir, i invented a projectile weapon that relies on gas expansion to accelerate an object."
>"frick off Robert, what even is a gas, are you talking about miasma? Just go fetch me a bow you stupid peasant"
I can't belive some people fell for this
It isn't even bait, it's just an ok shitpost
The Chinese used gunpowder to make rockets centuries before anyone invented guns
Why did they call it gunpowder if guns weren't invented yet?
Kenny Omega is a cringe homosexual.
>lord of the realm has an announcement
>"frick e-drones"
>english is called "the king's tongue"
>money is minted coins the peasantry calls "crowns"
"Crowns" does sound pretty good tho
hasn't progressed in centuries
It's actually regressed. The fallen ancient empires were always more advanced than the current setting.
How would you handle fictional currency
I wouldn't. I only write what I know to avoid immersion breaking inaccuracies.
they didn't have money until like 1800. everything before that was basically barter despite whatever your schizo school book told you about ancient roman banks
Anon, you are wrong.
I read an interesting book, 13th century english villages had basically 0 currency but everything was valued by its monetary value in court and every day life even if the actual exchange was off produce, land, a cow or some shit
That isn't interesting at all
Give it a name that has some etymology to it in the same fictional world.
Have more than one currency.
like normal currency because I would only write low fantasy
Take the old English coinage and rename it to your liking.
Pic related for nobility or some magical equivalent. Moving gold is for final settlement of debts.
Most day to day transactions use silver at a fixed ratio to gold and more base metal for even more minute values.
this is gay israelite shit. the stick on its own has no value outside of your israelite lord and one of the only points of money is to trade with other people, places, kingdoms, etc. it would be easiest to just not have money and have peasants only trading
i bet you rant about non-gold back currencies but then promote tally sticks
>the stick on its own has no value outside of your israelite lord
"Accept this or I'll rape your family to death" is a compelling argument. Fiat currency makes sense when you think about it, it's backed by coercion and fear.
Peasants didn't use tally sticks you moron.
>peasants
>trading
The sticks were valuable because the King accepted them for taxes.
Copper, silver, gold
1 copper is basically how much a low class worker earns per day
1 silver is about how much a middle class tradesmen would earn per day
1 gold is how much an upper class ~~*banker*~~ "earns" per day
The gold coins really piss me off. Do you know how minute a gold coin would have to be to be useful for day to day transactions? The smallest gold coin issued in Medieval England was worth 20 pennies, and the penny itself would be divided into halfpennies and farthings. So there was a practical need for coinage 1/80th the value of the smallest gold coin for actual day to day life. People in fantasy settings trade big purses and sacks of gold that would have funded a pilgrimage to the holy land or bought a farm in the real middle ages for a new set of clothes or whatever. Making actual big purchases would require transporting hugely heavy amounts of gold with such a system.
It's usually silver and copper as well not just gold.
>usually
Not in my experience. It's just "gold". You could headcanon it that they're making out an amount in gold value by weight of other coins but I don't think I've seen that done explicitly.
you cold just says gold is much more common in those settings, it's lazy but it can make sense
>fantasy series
>technology hasn't progressed in centuries
>it's because if you do progress in technology, the gods declare a holy war on your state and genocide all of your people
>when you "die", they read through all of your thoughts for anti-establishment sentiments and if you have any, they demote you to a lower life form. Otherwise if you're a good goy, you might upgrade your station from servant to stable-boy, and a hundred years later, to a freely employed man or a sailor, etc.
and it's produced by indians (or zsnyder)
>SIR! SIR! DO NOT REDEEM MY KARMA! NO, YOU SON OF b***h BASTERD! DO NOT PUT ME IN A MONKEY! NOOOOOO
>money isn't gold coins
enjoy your israeli tricks
> Roman Emperors recall gold coins to mint new coins with less gold content
Where were your israelites then?
> Everyone walked around with a bunch of gold coins
> Not silver, bronze, or copper
moron.
>they copy names the for things from Tolkeins middle earth
>medival story
>people speak a common language everywhere
lol back then the dialects were so strong, you couldn't have traveled 50 miles before being unable to understand anyone.
They did have lingua franca, however, that would be spoken by people who would need it.
lmao back then you couldn't travel 50 miles, because roving christain rape gangs would beat you, rob you, rape you, and burn all of your books (this is how we got the christain dark ages).
Weak bait, too obvious. 2/10
>sci-fi
>currency is called credit
>scifi series
>english is called "galactic standard"
>money is credits
>technology hasn't progressed in centuries
>scifi series
>made up swear words
> money is various types of gems
> the gems hold light when charged
> light can be used for magic
film adaption when
>open chest that has been sealed for centuries
>[80] gold coins in modern currency
>[1] book written in completely intelligible modern language
>[3] items of clothing in the exact style of modern fashion
>[1] apple
>english is called "the common tongue"
that's the worst part
people complain about witcher having blacks but not how every single actor is british
it's not just fantasy. russian characters, british played, them, ancient romans, british. americans, british. sick anglo shit.
boohoo fricking moron
upset they don't hire '''''italian''''' amerimutts to play romans?
triggered bongoloid
yes I would rather gandolfini to play the romans than yet another moronic bongoloid
nord italian here, I would take brits over "italian"-americans every single time
mutt larpers descend from mix of a little bit of the darkest least educated terroni with all kinds of all swarty people larping as south italians to be second class citizens instead of thrid.
their looks, the gibberish they speak, their food which is way more disgusting than even the english one, everithing about them proves they aren't even sligtly italian
I will always empitise and identify more with a dignified brit actor than some orange mistery meat larper
That German show about germanics vs Romans cast a bunch of Italians from the region around Rome and has them speaking Latin. It’s pretty cool
>fantasy series
>it’s ALWAYS medieval Western Europe setting
Why not Ancient Greece? Or Egypt? Or China?
ignoring that a lot of fantasy series essentially have grecian/egyptian/eastern allegorical societies, if it wasn't set in a EVROPEAN framework then it wouldn't be fantasy
youre essentially asking
>why does this fantasy series have a fantasy setting
>genre is called "fantasy" and is about made up magical worlds
>has to adhere to rigid standards of being a Tolkien ripoff
yes
>Why isn't fantasy Wuxia?
Kenny Omega, whatever happened ther
>fantasy series
>the Princess has obvious boob implants
>fantasy series based on medieval or early modern age europe
>modern values sprinkled everywhere sticking out like sore thumbs
>fantasy series
>english is called "the angloid's curse of the tongue"
>money is severed human fingers that don't seem to rot
>technology randomly progresses and regresses every episode