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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5315688" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, yes, that's your problem right there.With running up to seven billion people on the planet, only a few million of which have ever played tabletop RPGs, this isn't surprising.  Most of the examples they see in books and media have the characters start out, or super-rapidly become, major players on the world stage. So, I think you're correct - folks have to learn the context of RPGs before you can pull this off reliably.But, once they know the context, it can be good stuff.  I've a habit of handing large chunks of entire cultures over to players:  "You're playing the only dwarf in the party?  Well, then dwarves are pretty much yours.  How do you want them to be?"</blockquote>