Post by 00dlez on Apr 4, 2018 21:53:37 GMT
Let me start by saying the audio was not the best. Sometimes, it happens. BUT if you stopped listening because of it, you are doing yourself a dis-service! Mattias can still be understood just fine and there's some really great perspectives that have helped me a lot already!
Probably the biggest take away for me was the point that cultures aren't made in a vacuum and need to relate to one another. It's vital to make a broad setting immersive and relateable. It's something I was already working on doing in my world, creating the cultures as they developed together versus one at a time, but the context the episode provided was stellar and invigorating!
Taken a step further, people (NPCs and players in a game) often have misconstrued notions about a given group - whether its that all orcs are violent (the orcs atop Mountain A are actually pacifists) or that the human island tribes are all violent (they actually just regard their islands as sacred ancestral ground, and visitors are violating a religious rite).
Probably the biggest take away for me was the point that cultures aren't made in a vacuum and need to relate to one another. It's vital to make a broad setting immersive and relateable. It's something I was already working on doing in my world, creating the cultures as they developed together versus one at a time, but the context the episode provided was stellar and invigorating!
Taken a step further, people (NPCs and players in a game) often have misconstrued notions about a given group - whether its that all orcs are violent (the orcs atop Mountain A are actually pacifists) or that the human island tribes are all violent (they actually just regard their islands as sacred ancestral ground, and visitors are violating a religious rite).
