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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clavis" data-source="post: 4789787" data-attributes="member: 31898">So far, I've had no problem getting players to embrace and play their cultures. I don't force the issue. Instead, I give the players lists of 10 things the average member of their culture believes, but also tell them that their PCs could be rebels who don't believe those things. The campaign is set in and around a cultural crossroads area, so there's going to be a certain amount of cross-influence. The players seem to like playing Elves for the feeling of living almost without boundaries of any kind, except the need to do everything beautifully. My Halflings have a Redneck-like culture, which players have so far loved to play up. Nobody has played a Dwarf yet, but that's simply because they won't work with a party that includes Elves. Once the players met their first Dwarven NPCs (with their outrageous Germanic accents, superior armor, and black-and-white morality) they started clamoring to get to play them. Then again, my Demi-human cultures are take-offs on traditional concepts of these races. Medieval Elves were tricky, amoral and lusty, totally unlike Tolkien's conception of near-angels. My Dwarves are inspired by Wagner's Nibelungs. Tolkien intended his Hobbits as an ode to English country life, so I made my Halflings like over-the-top American Rednecks and Hillbillies.</blockquote>