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If chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset. (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Castles come from the French in general. Stone castles were a post Norman thing. Big wooden halls, Rohan style were the pre-Norman Norm

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

they're also prenorman, the roman ones. some of which were still used into the norman era: i.e. the walls of York

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

That's true but they're not quite the same as a full ass Chateau. Tbh, my pre-norman England knowledge is mostly downstream from my Tolkien nerdery it is something I should look more into. German history as well. I'm eventually gonna know all of history really really well one obsession at a time.