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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8703861" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Them traveling using common modes of transportation? Yes. Them being the mercantile race of the world? No, that isn't based right in the PHB. So, since you responded to the idea with &quot;but here's this piece of PHB lore&quot; I decided to ask about expanding on it. Well I don't know your buddy and I'm not familiar with Kamala Khan, but since you mention immigration and pro wrestling those don't seem to be cultures writ large and seem to be more sub-cultures within a larger culture. A sort of &quot;finding your place&quot; like someone could get into DnD as a &quot;third culture&quot;. But that still doesn't seem to make the two cultures they came with which is the conflict at the core of their story (talking from a literary point of view) not matter. Again, you have to remember, my comment was in response to someone saying my half-elf was &quot;basically a human&quot; and that since my half-elf could be any race (or just human) then all half-elves lacked a culture. Well... a half-elf is also a half-human, so being seen as human would be... kind of the point? The entire point of choosing to place yourself between two worlds is to interact with those two worlds, this character just happened to find his place in one of those worlds. Are we going to say that never happens?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8703861, member: 6801228"] Them traveling using common modes of transportation? Yes. Them being the mercantile race of the world? No, that isn't based right in the PHB. So, since you responded to the idea with "but here's this piece of PHB lore" I decided to ask about expanding on it. Well I don't know your buddy and I'm not familiar with Kamala Khan, but since you mention immigration and pro wrestling those don't seem to be cultures writ large and seem to be more sub-cultures within a larger culture. A sort of "finding your place" like someone could get into DnD as a "third culture". But that still doesn't seem to make the two cultures they came with which is the conflict at the core of their story (talking from a literary point of view) not matter. Again, you have to remember, my comment was in response to someone saying my half-elf was "basically a human" and that since my half-elf could be any race (or just human) then all half-elves lacked a culture. Well... a half-elf is also a half-human, so being seen as human would be... kind of the point? The entire point of choosing to place yourself between two worlds is to interact with those two worlds, this character just happened to find his place in one of those worlds. Are we going to say that never happens? [/QUOTE]

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