Questions tagged [culture]
For questions dealing with the customary and artistic characteristics of a society.
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Creating convincingly alien viewpoints
Most aliens tend to be humans with bumpy foreheads and/or pointy ears. Even when they do have differences then usually it is an entire species being portrayed as a particular brand of human. For ...
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How can I make money work across separate planets?
Over time separate countries have adopted common currencies, and a world can be imagined where a planet has a single currency. However, in building a world spanning a multiplanet system (several ...
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How to Make Different Cultures Have Different Naming Styles, But a Common Language Between Them Believable?
For a roleplaying world, it is highly favorable to have some common language spoken by all the possible playable races or nations, so that the players could play different characters without having to ...
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Are "planet of hats" realistic?
Planet of hats is the name of a trope where all inhabitants of a planet share a defining characteristic, of which there are many sub-tropes like environment or economy. I'd like to focus on the ...
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