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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5821009" data-attributes="member: 54877">Using a game to explore another cultural mindset, you run into some of the same issues you do with learning a language: If you immerse into as much as you can, you'll learn it a lot faster, but struggle some early. If you ease into it, you can avoid some of the nastier struggles at the expense of a longer learning curve. With my group, our sessions are relatively far apart but long when we have them. So it is far better for me to pick the two or three cultural differences that are most important to the setting and focus on those hard, rather than a wider, less prominent approach. If I'm going to have "nobles are above the common" law as a main theme, then I'll maybe hit that hard and gloss over serfdom this time around. Or vice versa.  Contrawise, if you want to really immerse in a broader set of details, you need some kind of written explanation of the differences, and be prepared to discuss them at the table--even out of character if necessary--until everyone is at least moderately comfortable. Otherwise, you are trying to explore the subtle ramifications of slavery in this world, while a couple of the players are doing the equivalent of trying to remember how to ask directions in a language they don't speak. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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