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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Slapzilla" data-source="post: 3762633" data-attributes="member: 52781">I've been toying with the idea of race and culture for a bit too.  My players weren't interested so I dropped it from my active 'to-do' list.My only difficulty came from deciding what was racial and what was cultural.  Does a gnome's Speak With Animals come from being fostered as a baby with one or from actually being a gnome fostered as a baby with one?  It makes sense that a half orc raised as an elven child would learn the elven weapon proficiencies or that a human raised in a dwarven clan would get stonecunning.  Or would they?  Would a half-orc have the same elven pride that spurs the teaching of those weapons?  I think probably not, but it wouldn't preclude their teaching.  A human cannot see in the dark and how important is that to dwarven culture?  Could a human develop darkvision or would this human's stonecunning only work when underground and lit somehow?  I think not.  A halfling too, may not learn stonecunning.  The human second feat at first level is certainly racial, but are the skill bonuses?Again my players weren't interested so I didn't finish things up as I would have liked.  Where is the line, do you think, for racial and cultural?  How do you make that judgement?I also like the idea of regional differences, but again my players were stiffs about it.  I tried to implement a background mechanic by having them choose an NPC class skill list to be added to their class list.  I was strict about them choosing Aristocrat and I limited Expert to 4 skills (otherwise they'd all pick it) and it lent another background angle to otherwise flat 1st level characters.</blockquote>

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