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Starter Cultures
This is a bundle of eight generalized (post-Tolkien, Eurocentric) fantasy cultural types, prepared as raw material to be used for worldbuilding and restructured for play. Each of these culture write-ups includes a brief description of how they are led and fed, some notable cultural issues that characters from them ought to have opinions on, generalized skill sets held within them, and their most usual armaments.An example (and the most obvious of the lot):
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