[tshiggins]

One of the ongoing "features" of my Facets campaign is that the party keeps interacting with people from cultures at earlier points in their social development, as compared to the party's home -- an early 21st Century United States that closely matches the real world.

At this point, the party has more female players than male, so I get the hairy eyeballs and snide comments any time their characters get snubbed or, worse, condescended to, by a male NPC from a traditional culture.

If the NPC is based on an historical figure with a documented distaste for women, on top of all that (i.e., Sir Isaac Newton...), the table-talk gets pretty... caustic.