I like to start from historically accurate then go from there in my hobby games.
My friends ask why I care about accuracy. It's really simple! The world 1,000 or 2,000 years ago was VERY different than today, and trying to replicate it is usually enough to create an interesting and foreign world.
If you want to morph things for gameplay's sake, you still can. But there's a difference between purposefully introducing inaccuracies and ignorantly doing so.
My friends ask why I care about accuracy. It's really simple! The world 1,000 or 2,000 years ago was VERY different than today, and trying to replicate it is usually enough to create an interesting and foreign world.
If you want to morph things for gameplay's sake, you still can. But there's a difference between purposefully introducing inaccuracies and ignorantly doing so.