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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5299178" data-attributes="member: 80487">That much is true. In the "clanless barbarians in Jakalla" scenario, you will be dependent on employment by Tsolyani patrons to get out of the Foreigners' Quarter.As to the rest, not only does The Man With No Name manage to find his way into plenty of adventures in parts of the Spaghetti West where he's a stranger... not only have many people gone through computer adventure games that leave them to find their ways through even stranger worlds ...but there are some operations of gray cells that most people are taught as "life skills".There is, for instance, the ancient and powerful technique of Crouching Tiger, Asking Questions.If you are totally ignorant of 17th-century France, then I do not see how it would be a help to expect you to act like a 17th-century Frenchman.Neither do I think that many apart from you expect to go into a game with nothing but total ignorance. Certainly one of the historical strengths of D&D was its drawing on ancient and perennial traditions, with very popular recent manifestations (Hobbit, Conan) as well. I do not recall anyone being totally at sea in the land of fable and fairy tales that was D&D!Then again, the general public went mad for Pac-Man (which is essentially a lot like D&D, only way more bizarre).] I'm---- not0> lost-c I'm= just\| aimlesslywandering</blockquote>