Paul, out of curiosity, what's your racial/ethnic background?

--Kynn


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Paul Cardwell <carpgachair@...>wrote:

> I was astonished by the line about stereotypes in tabletop RPG. Find
> another game group without the idiocy. We have long used actual cultures as
> character background in our TT games because it brings along all the
> cultural baggage of food, clothing, religion, roles of women, attitudes
> toward strangers, how cargo is carried, etc. that make a three-dimensional
> character in the game.
>
> In fact, the amount of research involved in doing this in a
> non-stereotypical way actually convinced a thirty-something year old player
> in the group to go to college and study anthropology. Needless to say, this
> was Mythworld, not D&D, although it could be used there with only a minimum
> imposition of house rules.
>
> The "real culture" background can be applied to other species as well by
> using the culture directly or some historic culture's view of that species
> (dwarf, elf, centaur, etc.) as the basis.
>
> Paul Cardwell
>



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