Finally, I'll talk about how evolution away from feudal forms involved other dynamics and other (exploitable) problems, and I'll close with some adventure seeds tailored to these various social problems. I'll also suggest that feudalism came pre-packaged with its own problems, which savvy world-builders and GMs can exploit. I'm not arguing about slavish obedience to canonical details.I'm talking about the underlying logic of social dynamics for which forms of 'feudalism' provided a coherent response. This does not mean it must be limited to fantasy-Europe-clones. I'm not going to do anything ground-breaking here, but I want to articulate the following: "feudalism" is most effectively used in fantasy settings that somehow share the real-world context in which "feudalisms" emerged. Once the context changed, feudal structures made less sense, and additional problems emerged.
What we may call feudal political structures responded to particular conditions and reflected both the coherent logic and the inherent vulnerabilities of that context. This may be old hat to some of you, but if not.please read on.įeudalism, in its myriad forms, arose out of a specific historical context across western Eurasia.
Mixed in with a lot of good conversations are online discussions that misrepresent feudalism - or, perhaps more importantly, fail to exploit what feudalism can and should say about a game setting.
That being said.good ol' feudalism is often misunderstood. Even its absence often reflects a conscious reaction to D&D's perceived saturation with medieval European trappings. It's in many - most? - fantasy RPGs, sometimes just taken for granted as part of the default setting.
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