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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8068684" data-attributes="member: 93670">Having them tied to culture & background allows them to be used to push a picture of a GM's desired setting/corner of the world  onto their players in a format the players want to examine & conform to in detail without needing the GM to spend a ton of work beuilding backgrounds & such that the players will immediately ignore  Lets say I hypothetically want to set my campaign in<a href="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/eberron/images/4/44/Map_Karrnath.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100409043355" target="_blank"> Karrnath</a>  I could quickly slap together something like this<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Karrnwood dwellers:  The manifest zone's bitter cold gives +2 con</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rekkenmark dwellers: Dennieth's martial college results in people growing up here having a better education & better access to knowledge +2 int</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lakeside dwellers: This harsh fishing village is home to Karrns who are no stranger to plying the local trade+2 dex</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thronehold dwellers:  he capitol city of what was once Galifar is split into 4 separate districts with strict monitoring & control over travel between.  Residents are given special training in dealing with spies & saboteurs at regular intervals   +2 wis</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Korth Dweller: As the capitol of our fine nation, Korth has a busy lightning rail station & frequent travelers from all 5 of the nations, residents are great at interacting with others.  +2 cha</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Irontown dwellers: When the local trade is mining for iron & carting away stone for cannith to transmute  even the Sending Stone operator's got some muscle +2str</li> </ul>Then I could pull out a couple backgrounds & maybe modify them as fits the game I want to run to give 1-2 options for +1 to each stat.  Right away my players are going to center themselves in the corner of the world I want them centered in & they are going to reference it pretty often because those touchstones I threw together are tied to both my game and their primary/secondary attribute choices</blockquote>

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