Aeon,
You're opening yourself up for a world of hurt, there. The author's idea
was to make a simple division. Now you're talking about races and
mixed-race and culture and sub-culture. At that point, you might was well
use a life-cycle type system for "special" modifiers.
I think your real-world examples are well handled within his system. In
your examples, "palestinians" in "israel" would be "race" in "culture" in
the simple division system.
To be honest, if in your world you have certain groups, then define and make
them up (as per DMG). I'm a *huge* fan of systems, but I think once you try
to cover that level of detail, you're better of with your own judgement.
-dunk
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From: "Aeon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: RE: [ogf-d20-l] half-elf culture
> >My only other thing is that I don't think there is a half elf "culture"
> >because from what i've read they usually grow up with humans or elves
same
> >with half orcs.
>
> I would disagree strongly. If you look at any human society throughout
history,
> there have been smaller sub-cultures existing within society at large
which have
> developed into their own unique cultures based on their position within
society.
> This would probably be the case with half-elves due to their half and half
> nature. Look at the position of Palestinians living within Israeli
borders, or
> Jews living within Germany during the early days of WWII, or American
Indians
> living within American society today. Half-elves would probably have
different
> cultural traditions, largely lifted from any exposure they had to elven
society
> as youths. These traditions might not be perfectly in line with the way
full
> elves do it, but they'd certainly seem strange to full humans. Ditto
half-orcs.
>
>
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