Some good info on the OP. It takes a lot of infrastructure, and consistent demand, to make brickmaking feasible. (Since I work for a company that makes masonry blocks, I have both some knowledge of and some interest in this topic.) So if you chuck brick buildings into your setting, you’re implying a lot about the state of industry.

Adobe (sun-dried) bricks are a somewhat different proposition.

Originally shared by Derrick “Quite Clever” Sanders

Here’s a weirdo topic that is probably of some interest to fantasy gamers (of a certain stripe) as well as those of you with some historical and archaeological curiosity.

Bricks. Ancient Romans could make bricks. They built lots of buildings out of them. However, in medieval Europe we see brick construction become sporadic. My understanding is that the making of the bricks themselves became guild secret.

I’m hoping that the esteemed Ara Winter can hook us up with some primary documentation on this one (and I bet he can). Or maybe Amanda Rachelle Warren?