... that I learned from RPGs

_ It was perfectly acceptable to just walk into any home and talk to its inhabitants.
_ Short on money? No problem. Just look in random barrels or chests on the streets to find plenty of gold coins.
_ People in cities never went from one place to another. They just wandered about in one spot.
_ Steel bras and panties armor offered excellent protection from weapons.

Post yours.

None of this happens in Darklands.
If you know of any other RPG actually taking place in medieval Europe, I'm definitely interested though.

(I think you meant "interesting facts about generic fantasy settings")
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Bows and crossbows are entirely pointless, as the person hit and pierced by an arrow will likely still be perfectly capable of coming up to you and fighting you with a sword.

Not medieval but same situation in games.
After the great Fallout survivors threw all their smokes in the bins,as nearly every rubbish bin has a carton or packet of smokes in them.

All the poor old sots who gave up their days of adventuring took an arrow to the knee.

Dragons, zombies, orks, elf's and all sorts of god awful things roamed the land for which there is no archaeological evidence for today, and conveniently most of them could speak reasonably good English. And yet left no written records of their own.

-You could walk -as a completely stranger- into a castle and talk with the king
-You could hack people to death with your sword and they don`t loose a single drop of blood (german medieval version only)
-All people spoke modern english/german

It's really sad that humans lost all their magical abilities after medieval times :(

Medicine was incredibly advanced, to the point where no catastrophic, near-fatal injury could not be healed instantaneously, probably with a commonly available potion.

Medieval people suffered of mysterious short-term memory loss. They kept repeating themselves over and over again each time you talked to them

Thought this was about the theme restaurant. Am disappoin, Ted. Except when they spoke in "old-fashioned" speech containing various archaic words that they didn't understand how to use properly.

Also:
- There were lots of people who shared the EXACT same faces and voices, despite not being related.
- Weirdly, though, there were almost no duplicate names, even in very large regions.
In certain parts of the medieval period, each person had a list of set responses they would cycle through.
On the other hand, people often repeated the exact same things that several other people had already said.
My, the sun sure is in the sky today, eh?
In certain parts of the medieval period, each person had a list of set responses they would cycle through.
On the other hand, people often repeated the exact same things that several oth- <SKIP>
My, the sun sure is in <SKIP>

_Contrary to popular belief, actual horses were very common and widely used in medieval times and it was actually somewhat rare to see anyone galloping without a horse, followed by a servant banging two halves of a coconut together.

_Two swallows could carry a coconut provided they carried it on a line held together under the dorsal guided feather.

_Kings were not in fact voted for and usually came to power by exploiting the workers and by hanging onto outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuated the economic and social differences in their society.

_Violence was VERY inherent in the system.

Ask Michael Palin. He wrote it.

Yeah, inherent is like native, or unique, or dead -- technically, qualifications like partially or very, at best, are unnecessary, and at worst, invalidate the word.
tinyE was using VERY as an intensifier, though, so it could be excused -- even if he weren't quoting Monty Python in a forum full of middle-aged geeks. :D
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