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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shdwrnr" data-source="post: 3763234" data-attributes="member: 55170">I left it all generic by design. If you use a published campaign setting or flesh one out yourself, of course you can make your cultural aspects more narrow since you've established what each culture is, in essence.I also left it generic to allow its use on a smaller scale. Imagine you're campaign is set in a large metropolis like, say, Sharn, the Free City of Greyhawk, or Waterdeep? This generic system could let you differentiate between the halfling who was born poor and grew up working in the docks district (Martial Seafaring Halfing) and the human born rich and educated in a prestigeous magical institute (Inventive Arcane Human).As for Slapzilla's comments, I'd have to disagree. From a strictly biological standpoint, things like darkvision and inate magical ability aren't things that you could simply train yourself to do. Also, a person's mental outlook is the sum of his experiences. The half-orc raised from birth among elves would be very elf-like in personality as well as training. Even if that half-orc wanted to embrace his orc identity, he's still limited by his experiences and would probably come off as an inane parody of facts by orc culture (for an example, look at any comedy featuring "wiggers")That being said, I now have a very funny mental picture of a wannabe-barbarian elf raised half-orc. "Why you always gotta be hatin' on my green brothers, yo?"</blockquote>

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