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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Catolias" data-source="post: 8559462" data-attributes="member: 7017236">Absolutely agree. You are enmeshed and influenced by your local culture - there is no way you can stand outside it to create an rpg setting. That all goes to how you create your settings - even when you try to create a deliberate alternaticeIf you don’t agree, just think about culture’s influence when you travel to another country and experience how the Other culture lives their daily lives. Some of that difference is obvious (eg, which side of the road do they drive) but some are less so. These less recognised impacts of culture are the way people communicate with each other - the euphemisms, the metaphors, the norms of socially acceptable behaviour. (My favourite from years ago were Indian taxi drivers referring to the rear of the building as “backside” - which made you think carefully about asking for an entry at the rear of the building!)This all feels like a university discussion on post-structuralism and post-modernism. Ahh, those were the days…</blockquote>