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<blockquote data-quote="Azure Trance" data-source="post: 703652" data-attributes="member: 372">Re: Re: Re: Re: Ethnic groupsI wouldn't call them Italians in the game (play real world historical D&amp;D? Ick). And they wouldn't be necessarily based on Italians; psuedo-Dutch is another (Hanseatic League). Essentially small kingdoms with large trade. If I give them vaguely dutch or italian sounding cities and names and customs, the PCs will know what it's 'based' on. His name is Antonio, eh? And he works for the city-state of Ravenna? I thought he was one of the good guys! Ah, these murky politics. It just adds some versimilitude [sp inc sp inc sp inc]. FYI, I never said I was against cultural feats or class races either. They can add even more depth, and given a choice between the two, I would choose the cultural feats and class races. But, I can pick both <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> +2/-2 isn't a huge difference to me. An adventurer can make that up in 8 levels, or a minor wonderous item. Or two age categories.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Azure Trance, post: 703652, member: 372"] [b]Re: Re: Re: Re: Ethnic groups[/b] I wouldn't call them Italians in the game (play real world historical D&D? Ick). And they wouldn't be necessarily based on Italians; psuedo-Dutch is another (Hanseatic League). Essentially small kingdoms with large trade. If I give them vaguely dutch or italian sounding cities and names and customs, the PCs will know what it's 'based' on. His name is Antonio, eh? And he works for the city-state of Ravenna? I thought he was one of the good guys! Ah, these murky politics. It just adds some versimilitude [sp inc sp inc sp inc]. FYI, I never said I was against cultural feats or class races either. They can add even more depth, and given a choice between the two, I would choose the cultural feats and class races. But, I can pick both :) +2/-2 isn't a huge difference to me. An adventurer can make that up in 8 levels, or a minor wonderous item. Or two age categories. [/QUOTE]

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