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Originally Posted by Atgxtg
Yeah, the hardest thing with historical settings is that modern people really don't understand what everyday life was like, and tend to view things in terms that they understand.
Things like roasted, stuffed mouse (tasty), garum (a paste made from rotted fish entrails, Rome's answer to ketchup) and vomitoriums don't translate well.
Likewise, most people tend to look at the Biblical account of sleeping in the stables as subhuman way to live, missing the point. In fact, the stables weren't much different that most homes. It was the idea that one of such high status (The Messiah) would be born in so humble a spot that was the point.
That sort of stuff is hard to convey, but crucial to breathing life into the campaign setting. Otherwise Rome just becomes generic fantasy in skirts.
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Well as far as food goes, all I can say there a lot of food my Philippine born wife eats that even after 20 years of marriage I will not touch , such as Balot( A Duck egg almost hatched) or Shrimp paste.. And when she cooks pig intestines I leave the house.
But you are right that most people dont understand how hard life was then. But all one really has to do is look at how life is in many underdeveloped country to get a glimpse of what life was like
I admit I have a hard time understanding why people kill each other over slight differences in ethnic make up or because somebody worship God in a slightly different way,