Blue mud, or pie with a fork Jeff Zeitlin (30 Jul 2021 23:22 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Phil Pugliese
(30 Jul 2021 23:41 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Rupert Boleyn
(31 Jul 2021 01:19 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Graham Donald
(31 Jul 2021 07:51 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Phil Pugliese
(31 Jul 2021 09:17 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
David Shaw
(31 Jul 2021 09:49 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Jeff Rowse
(02 Aug 2021 11:21 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Rupert Boleyn
(02 Aug 2021 20:22 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
David Shaw
(02 Aug 2021 20:32 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Bruce Johnson
(02 Aug 2021 20:44 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Andrew Long
(31 Jul 2021 10:16 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Mark Urbin
(31 Jul 2021 15:09 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Michael Houghton
(01 Aug 2021 19:33 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Jeffrey Schwartz
(03 Aug 2021 18:29 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Blue mud, or pie with a fork
Richard Aiken
(10 Aug 2021 16:27 UTC)
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It is a common trope in fiction, and in [good] SF particularly (and it's even considered a good idea in real life, "ugly American" notwithstanding), that when one is in "somebody else's" milieu, one should do one's best to conform to the expectations of that milieu, or at least know enough to avoid giving offense. DGP's _World Builders' Handbook_ (WBH) provided some rules for generating customs that PCs could theoretically run afoul of. However, rather than asking people to pull out their PRNGs and copies of WBH, I'd rather ask people to think about and list those kinds of 'things' that they've encountered in real life, and maybe come up with a couple of variations on them that could make life interesting for PCs. NOTE: "R-rated" is specifically NOT excluded - I recall some examples in fiction where starting from the assumption that if you stuck to what mom taught you was decent/indecent, you couldn't go wrong, went wrong. (Bonus points to anyone who can name the two references I was thinking of when I wrote the subject line.) ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2020. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Resource xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: onCloud/CyberWeb Enterprises (http://www.oncloud.io) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)