[quote=@Kassarock]Its the middle ages and no one's getting proper nutrition and we've got a band of 10 6ft+ people wandering around the countryside. [/quote]
Sometimes research is important, but sometimes people want to play with tropes and most often things are not, um, non-fiction? Quin has seen more stock fantasy settings than say historical non-fiction. Though if everyone is six foot that is kinda like boring and stuff, isn't it?