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Old 10-31-2011, 04:40 AM   #34
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Default Re: Campaign Setting Question

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Originally Posted by Jürgen Hubert View Post
He probably was aware of the printing press, but he probably didn't anticipate how politicized this would get, and how far this would spread. (I once heard a speech by the leader of the work group that invented the MP3 coding scheme, who said something similar...)

Religion should play a huge role in this era, since after the Reformation each ruler choose whether to stay Catholic or become Protestant - and this was often more a matter of political alliances than faith. And then his subjects usually had to join the same denomination by default.

If you look at a map of the distributions of Protestants and Catholics in Germany today, it will still map fairly closely to those old territorial boundaries, especially in rural areas...
Poofy pants!

Those are also important.
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