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Want to work up a corner of your world that feels rich with history, friendships, rivalries, and details that all kinda make sense? Something that makes the party curious, and allows you the space to improv more at the table, while keeping it all connected? That's what we're talking about today, with the help of our culture creator.

It took a while for us to come up with this approach. We've tried using factions and cultures from books as written, but that's a gamble. Either a player picks up the thread, or that whole group fades into the background fast, and you have to scramble to find something they engage with. We've tried creating our own from absolute scratch, which leads to quick and dirty standins for realworld cultures that bring retrospective shame, or endless rabbit holes to try to figure out a thousand details that will never come up.

In The Archives of the Ancients, we look at a few points of historical inspiration, based on some ideas that came up in our first episode of this season, "Session Zero to Story Driven Dungeon Crawl". The conversation covers the grandeur of the baths of Caracalla, the hurried mess that was The Banff Springs Hotel, and the unusual medical history of snails.

In Founders Square, we build out two cultures that occupy the same geographical location using our culture creator. First, we consider the party values. Then we create two sets of opposing values for the two cultures. After peppering in our inspirations, they quickly take on a life of their own.

Culture Creator: https://hookandchance.com/blog/2020/5...

Previous Episodes that feature the Culture Creation Guide:
Secrets of the Firbolg
The Modron Mathematical Mayhem
The Modron Metaphysical Motivation
Creating Holidays for Your Homebrew
A Meditation on Elves
Menacing Mind Flayer Culture
Building a Curious Tabaxi Culture
Create Gods and Religions with Ease

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