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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8462377" data-attributes="member: 7025997">It's tricky, right? It's hard to make a culture ex nihilo, and you usually wind up basing it on something, even unconsciously (every time I tried to make a fantasy city I kept making square city blocks with neighborhoods separated by socioeconomic class, and then I realized...gosh, I'm from New York, aren't I?).&nbsp; Greyhawk looks an awful lot like the Upper Midwest. Even looking at settings that tried hard to be exotic, Tekumel mashes up India, Arabia, Egypt, and Mesoamerica, and most of us aren't as creative as M.A.R. Barker. Talislanta had analogs for a lot of the cultures, though they had purely fantastic stuff like cultures that live in clouds.I think, unlike publication where you have to theoretically worry about the whole world, if it's just for your group you have a much smaller group of people to worry about. I would never try to market a supplement in the current environment. (I mean, people obviously do, but I would personally be chicken.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8462377, member: 7025997"] It's tricky, right? It's hard to make a culture ex nihilo, and you usually wind up basing it on [I]something, [/I]even unconsciously (every time I tried to make a fantasy city I kept making square city blocks with neighborhoods separated by socioeconomic class, and then I realized...gosh, I'm from New York, aren't I?). Greyhawk looks an awful lot like the Upper Midwest. Even looking at settings that tried hard to be exotic, Tekumel mashes up India, Arabia, Egypt, and Mesoamerica, and most of us aren't as creative as M.A.R. Barker. Talislanta had analogs for a lot of the cultures, though they had purely fantastic stuff like cultures that live in clouds. I think, unlike publication where you have to theoretically worry about the whole world, if it's just for your group you have a much smaller group of people to worry about. I would never try to market a supplement in the current environment. (I mean, people obviously do, but I would personally be chicken.) [/QUOTE]

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