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<blockquote data-quote="Dirigible" data-source="post: 1073927" data-attributes="member: 12631">In one of my campaigns, there was a kingdom of humans ruled by an elder dragon. The poplulace was inordinatly pround of their monarch, seeing him as a symbol of the nation's invulnerability. This served as an axis around which I could hang various cultural ideas (in the same way as Dune's 'no water' trait).* The people judged other kingdoms by the personal power of the monarch, before other concerns (like wealth, military strength, religion etc). &quot;My king could take you king with both foretalons tied behind his back !&quot;* Concepts such as rights of sucession had to be reworked. After all, the kingdom had had the same king for 2,500 years. COmplex laws of primogeniture, bastardry etc seem pretty pointless next ot that.* Some common phrases changed, eg 'the Horde' instead of 'the Throne'.Some real world ones* It's rude to belch after a meal* It's polite to belch after a meal* Moving head left to right means yes* Moving head left to right means noWhere would we be without diversity <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=":)" />* Certain objects are taboo, and must never come into contact with a non-taboo things, such as human feet, heads or bottoms.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dirigible, post: 1073927, member: 12631"] In one of my campaigns, there was a kingdom of humans ruled by an elder dragon. The poplulace was [i]inordinatly[/i] pround of their monarch, seeing him as a symbol of the nation's invulnerability. This served as an axis around which I could hang various cultural ideas (in the same way as Dune's 'no water' trait). * The people judged other kingdoms by the personal power of the monarch, before other concerns (like wealth, military strength, religion etc). "My king could take you king with both foretalons tied behind his back !" * Concepts such as rights of sucession had to be reworked. After all, the kingdom had had the same king for 2,500 years. COmplex laws of primogeniture, bastardry etc seem pretty pointless next ot that. * Some common phrases changed, eg 'the Horde' instead of 'the Throne'. Some real world ones * It's rude to belch after a meal * It's polite to belch after a meal * Moving head left to right means yes * Moving head left to right means no Where would we be without diversity :) * Certain objects are taboo, and must never come into contact with a non-taboo things, such as human feet, heads or bottoms. [/QUOTE]

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