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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 2460729" data-attributes="member: 9646">I have a question concerning -- well how to say that -- modern sensibilities and what is really useful to a D&D game.So: I am reading the Legendes Tahitiennes game and collecting the info in it (that I will turn into an English summarized text). There are several aspects of the ancient Tahitian society that our modern culture would frown upon. Some of them, I guess, should be kept as they add to a D&D game; but others I would like to know if we rather deliberately forget about them in describing a d20 Polynesian-fantasy setting. Examples:-- Slaves (from war) are kept to be sacrificed to the gods. Obviously we can keep that as an interesting and much traditional plot device of D&D games.-- Polynesian societies (at least in Tahiti) allow great sexual freedom. This aspect, IMO, certainly brings nothing to the game, so we can probably forget to mention it. -- Ariori (bards) have total sexual freedom but are forbidden to sire children, so when they do the babies are killed.. As above, I think it doesn't bring anything to the game and could be forgotten.-- Except for noble women, all women are considered inferior to men. We can certainly tell that Polynesian women traditionally won't be warriors, fishers, etc., but I don't see it a good idea to make them socially inferior and subject to many taboos.So: what do you think?</blockquote>