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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaji" data-source="post: 485814" data-attributes="member: 7738">Re: Keep some tums handyI want to take small issue with the idea that a "primitive" society only practices cannibalism or that they don't advance if they do. This is not really anthropologically sound as I understand it. There are difficulties with being a cannibal however. The rules on when you can/should eat someone else have to be quite clear, other wise trade would neighbors would be very difficult if they are concerned that you will eat them if things aren't going well...In a similar vein, I know some ancient cultures ritually ate their own dead to absorb the wisdom of the tribe. While not quite the same thing, you could use it as an idea or actually chose to make that work. I eat my clever neighbor and gain a bonus to what ever his highest skill rank was, or maybe a temporary bonus to one of my abilities. You could almost certainly fit this into the sacrifice rules. Maybe when cannibals feast, some demon is actually stealing the energy of those souls, and so provides some small benefit to the feaster's, like a euphoria. Part of the story could be that these folks are unwittingly feeding the demon and when confronted with proof of that fact, amend their ways.</blockquote>