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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7585295" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I absolutely understand where you’re coming from here, but personally I’m a big fan of bringing modern jokes, memes, and references into the game. I always assume player dialogue is only an approximation of what the characters would actually be saying - we speak in English rather than common, and the player of a high-Charisma character may not speak as eloquently as their character truly would - so for me it is a simple matter to extend that principle to the players’ humor. And I think it is appropriate that he characters have shared cultural touchstones that they might reference for their humor that we as modern people might not be familiar with, so our modern references serve as stand-ins for references in the world of the fiction. I think of like A Knight’s Tale, which uses anachronistic music to communicate to a modern audience the feeling of a modern sporting event, to remind them that a jousting tournament would have been for the characters of the film as a football match is for us now. I consider that more... I don’t know if “immersive” is the right word, but more relatable.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7585295, member: 6779196"] I absolutely understand where you’re coming from here, but personally I’m a big fan of bringing modern jokes, memes, and references into the game. I always assume player dialogue is only an approximation of what the characters would actually be saying - we speak in English rather than common, and the player of a high-Charisma character may not speak as eloquently as their character truly would - so for me it is a simple matter to extend that principle to the players’ humor. And I think it is appropriate that he characters have shared cultural touchstones that they might reference for their humor that we as modern people might not be familiar with, so our modern references serve as stand-ins for references in the world of the fiction. I think of like A Knight’s Tale, which uses anachronistic music to communicate to a modern audience the feeling of a modern sporting event, to remind them that a jousting tournament would have been for the characters of the film as a football match is for us now. I consider that more... I don’t know if “immersive” is the right word, but more relatable. [/QUOTE]

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