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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9508476" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah I get that vibe but it's no more than a vibe. Even in the 1990s it felt like a lot of UK RPGers were playing AD&D one month and Vampire: The Masquerade the next, and perhaps Shadowrun a few months later, and so on. Whereas from US players you heard of a lot more "Oh we'd never play that [insert game] trash! It's dumb and for losers!" and tales of exclusively playing this or that for years and years. But I can't go beyond vibe.Yeah I think this is largely no longer true too. It definitely used to be though.I think there is a little bit of this, yeah. That is one of the very few genuine differences I can think of even among players I've played with. Like, in the UK, almost anyone playing an RPG is likely to be broadly doubtful to actively cynical about monarchies and nobles, and almost no-one under 65 romanticizes either. Whereas in the US, there's also plenty of cynicism re: monarchy ("We kicked them out!") and people thinking nobles are all just pedos (not entirely incorrect...) and so on, but there's also this significant starry-eyed segment who absolutely do romanticize the hell out of monarchies and nobility, and think nobles are actually noble, or that'd be really cool if they were (and also somehow handsome not inbred and down-to-earth not haughty, and basically in no way reflective of any historical nobility! I blame Disney primarily).Also not usually D&D-relevant, but Americans RPGers are way more likely to romanticize the Victorian era than British ones. Plenty of British people do romanticize the Victorian era - but they're basically the exact sort of people who sneer at RPGs (and video games, and in some cases, all fiction books!), and tend to be significantly older (unless politicians, somehow idolizing the Victorians makes you like 50x more likely to become a politician, compared to the general population). That doesn't mean British people are less likely to play Victorian-ish era-set RPGs, necessarily, but it does tend to make the tone different.This is possible, but I feel like raccoons would not cope at all well with the sheer numbers and deadliness (they can decapitate a cat in a single bite sometimes, which had lead to a bunch of "cat serial killer" panics) of British foxes, for whom they would be in very direct competition for food, and who are a large and well-established population, particularly in cities, suburbs, and towns (they're also slightly larger and apparently more aggressive to other animals than American foxes).EDIT - On the other hand, British people are idiots who love cute animals even more than Americans (and I include myself among these idiots), so it's possible people would be so keen to feed the racoons that it might work out for them.</blockquote>

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