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[Kae'Yoss]

Vikings and scotsmen were not europeans?

Hell no! They don't want our currency, they don't get to play with us (Before the no politics zapper gets me: It's just fun).

 

[TerraDave]

Good one, Voadam.

I'm one of those boring DMs who has a world filled with cultures that roughly equate to the real world. The others in the group are comprised as follows:

The Fighter/Cleric/Paladin (I use the Paladin PrC from UA) would be considered French
The Cleric/Apostle of Peace would be considered English
The Rogue would be considered English-Italian

It is not boring! Humans in the group I DM are from Albion (England) and (a Gypsy) from Galia (Acquitaine/France). In the PbP group I play in a couple are Scandanavians and one is from Rumania, who have just met in a city in northern Russ.

 

[Hjorimir]

Well I certainly enjoy it, but many players are jaded against Eurocentric banalities within D&D campaigns.

 

[TerraDave]

Well I certainly enjoy it, but many players are jaded against Eurocentric banalities within D&D campaigns.

"Eurocentrism" is far from the biggest "banality" in D&D...and real life cultures offer a vast range of options, far more then in most D&D campaigns.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Well I certainly enjoy it, but many players are jaded against Eurocentric banalities within D&D campaigns.

Actually, I've encountered the opposite of that. Most players seem to cling to the Eurocentric D&D and hide away from other things.

 

[Hjorimir]

Actually, I've encountered the opposite of that. Most players seem to cling to the Eurocentric D&D and hide away from other things.

I can't argue that. A good friend of mine tried to run a campaign based on India/Al-Qadim. Though I was very excited about it most of the other players didn't take to it very well. Even OA campaigns just seem to fail within my circle of friends. It's too bad, I'd love to be in a game like that sometime.

 

[Hjorimir]

I guess it is worth mentioning that those other cultures are available within my campaign, but almost never taken by my players. Though I do have one player who is playing one of the Kishtü (think India).

 

[ForceUser]

I guess it is worth mentioning that those other cultures are available within my campaign, but almost never taken by my players. Though I do have one player who is playing one of the Kishtü (think India).

You're forgetting Sufi, the coolest character I never played. Thing is, when you set the campaign in the "European" land (Emoria), it's hard to justify a group full of cultural outsiders. It just makes sense that in Emoria, the majority of PCs are Emorian. You should have started the campaign in Kishtu lands if you wanted non-Euorpean characters to dominate. That said, we both know it would have fallen flat. Our guys are very meat-and-potatoes gamers, on the balance. :\

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I guess it is worth mentioning that those other cultures are available within my campaign, but almost never taken by my players. Though I do have one player who is playing one of the Kishtü (think India).

My homebrew is set up the same way...there's only been three non-European characters. A Monk, diplomat Samurai, and an Egyptian-esque mage. I'd love to see more than that, but it just seems like most players like the European stuff.

May have to try making more things region-centric just to see what happens.

 

[Hjorimir]

You're forgetting Sufi, the coolest character I never played. Thing is, when you set the campaign in the "European" land (Emoria), it's hard to justify a group full of cultural outsiders. It just makes sense that in Emoria, the majority of PCs are Emorian. You should have started the campaign in Kishtu lands if you wanted non-Euorpean characters to dominate. That said, we both know it would have fallen flat. Our guys are very meat-and-potatoes gamers, on the balance. :\

I didn't say I wanted them to dominate. I just said they were available. Obviously we would have to consider what people from distant, exotic lands are doing on Emoria. But I'd be able to think of something.