Discworld Also Example Characters - Second Edition Update

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Dwarfs, I should note, always get their own Cultural Familiarity. (Carrot delivers some speeches to Vimes that make that very necessary.) The differences between High Ramtops dwarfs and their cousins in Ankh-Morpork are predictably fiddly instance of a culture absorbing elements of another at a point of contact, possibly diverging from its pure homeland form by stages.

Well, that's a fair point.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Or to put it another way, I think of the Sto Plains as “Fantasy Western Europe” and Uberwald as “Fantasy Germany” — and Western Europe and Germany generally get covered by one CF.

I always got the sense that Uberwald is Generic Central Europe, as interpreted by 1960s-early 1970s Hammer Films movies which feature Christopher Lee (in his Damned-to-Play-Dracula-Forever phase), and underwire nightwear loosely attached to interchangeable starlets.

The name literally translates as "Transylvania."

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

The name literally translates as "Transylvania."

True, but it literally translates to that from German. Which is probably why I instinctively think of the place as fantasy-Germany.

It might be more accurate to give that region an Orthodox-analogous CF, distinct from the Western-analogous CF of the Sto Plains, I guess. I won't tell anyone not to. But, following the model of the later novels, my demo scenarios tend to feature a lot of characters who've moved between the two areas (cf. Angua, Moist von Lipwig, Otto Chriek...), so this would just feel like slapping a 1-point "faintly interesting background borrowed from the novels" tax on them. Actual, skill-penalising culture shocks in the novels tend to involve the Agatean Empire or nonhumans.