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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3724467" data-attributes="member: 14041">I think getting players to think outside their culture is a difficult thing to do.  You can make a list of characteristics, values, etc and inplay they will likely just forget them.  Even as a DM you can forget sometimes.   This has been one of the biggest obstacles I have had to running an Asian inspired game, was the fear that I couldn't really pull it off.  That it would wind up being just another fantasy but with the set pieces changed. And I have players who are very (very) character oriented, who really dig into back ground and development of motivations; so maybe I am more concerned with my ability to run it than I am their ability to play it.  However, if you choose to run one I would suggest, in as far as possible, "seeding" your and your players' imaginations. Find source materials that inspire you to think a certain way about the game - movies, books, tv, even music and comics.  If you can do that then you can keep the tone and feel right long enough for the game to take on a life of its own. I would suggest that no matter what the genre.  Playing a fatasy western?  Read Territory by Emma Bull and watch Firefly.  Playing uberpowerful supers who save the world?  Read Morrison's JLA.  Playing in a faerie tale inspired setting?  Read and watch Stardust.  Remind yourself why you want to play or run the thing.</blockquote>