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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 2716520" data-attributes="member: 5038">But humans are not painted like real world humans, at least in my opinion.  If they were, we should see considerations for altering classes or otherwise taking into account that  some cultures have certain skills required of all members or might lack access to certain skills as class skills.  Similarly, not all armor or weapons are available in all cultures.  Some things to be taken into accountArmor: Armor was not used in many cultures and metal armor in particular was unknown in many parts of the world including the New World and Australia.Weapons: the only truly cross cultural weapons are the club, knife, hand axe, and spear.  The bow is nearly universal, but it is not found everywhere (e.g., among the Australian aborigines).  Among some cultures, exotic weapons (e.g., blowguns, bolas, and boomerangs) should be treated as simple or martial.  Skills: Many cultures did not have access to certain skills.   Riding might  be unknown, but members of a culture might  have Endurance feat, a skill for rowing canoes, or a variant of ride (e.g., dog sleds).       Then there are those skills which every member of a culture should have. All members of a horse nomad culture should have ride as a class skill. Pygmies of Africa or people of the Amazon rainforest would have knowledge of poison making, because they use poison in hunting or against the larger people (but not other tribes or clans). unfortunately, we never see cultural variants that take the above into account for humans.</blockquote>

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