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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zarrock God of Evil" data-source="post: 1288019" data-attributes="member: 2025">Which is indeed, a good disposition that we could all learn from. The mentioned quotes as they stand alone, however, I could not let stand unreplied as I found them simply to inherently flawed to be redeemed if they are indeed - as stated earlier - presented as "neutral" and informative text. Presented as the viewpoint of aliens, they would perhaps have triggered a higher degree of amusement especially as we know how easily different cultures misunderstand each other on Earth - so how difficult would it not be for aliens? I'm sure Mr. Mollari has many interesting things to say about Terrans if given the chance.From a B5 viewpoint I should think that a very basic political, economical, and technological guide to the developments in the countries in question would be of most interest. This would leave us - the DMs and players - to fill in the cultural blanks from our own perspectives (which seems to be more comprehensive than the others anyway). I haven't played many games on Earth (mainly CoC and Cyberpunk). But always quite enjoyed toying with our preconceived notions of the nationalities of PCs and NPCs to fit the new context inside the game. I sincerely doubt that "flavourful text" of the kind presented in the first post does really add anything of value to a B5 game and should probably have been omitted or rewritten completely for the respective chapter in the book. A constructive dialogue about how this could be improved should be welcomed as I can hardly imagine that the author - or Mongoose Publishing - intended the material to be provocative (a strategy, however, that some company's embrace with pride). I wonder what they wrote about Danes, though? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />-Zarrock</blockquote>

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