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Home building materials
Last month, we found out that Dunderdagar actually meant “Days of Thunder” and wasn’t connected to the Draugr as I first wondered.
This month, I’m more confident that “Stonehome” is a reference to materials from which homes can be built. If your tabletop RPG is high fantasy, what could homes be made from?
I’d argue that most high-fantasy TTRPGs are set in worlds similar to Europe’s High and Late Medieval eras. If that’s the case, then homes can be built in various ways.
Peasants and lower classes might build homes from wood and earth, specifically timber frames, log cabins, wood shingles, wattle and daub, and cob or mud bricks if it was warm enough.
Common across most social classes would be houses made from thatch, and that could be straw thatch, reed thatch or heather/turf thatch.
Public buildings or those of the wealthy might be made from stone. These constructions could be rubble stone held down by mortar, fieldstone, ashlar stone or local stones. The best houses might have stone tiles or slates on the roof.
Bricks were becoming more common by the late medieval period but were still costly. Lime mortar, plaster, metal (for structural elements), and glass are equally less common but possible.
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