I’m really looking for what may have been the driving motivation and reward. The focus is on your personal drive for the interest and what you gained from it.

We can’t have meaningful conversations if people are scared to be honest, so please be authentic, forthcoming, and respectful. Conversely, please respond to others with compassion so that users feel safe enough to be vulnerable.

  • @[email protected]
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    241 month ago

    I’m a world builder, so learning about other cultures and seeing how those inspire me is just something I do often for fun.

    • Orbituary
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      41 month ago

      Same, though I’m the son of a Cuban immigrant so I don’t fully fit into OP’s question… that said, I don’t have any African heritage.

      In my D&D homebrew world, the Halfling culture live in a sub-tropical region. I modeled their culture, lifestyle, and traditional fighting techniques of those from Jamaica - particularly the machete martial artists. This is the video that inspired it for me.

    • @Zonetrooper
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      One of us, one of us!

      I came here to say pretty much the same thing. It’s even more interesting when you’re working with a future-of-the-real-world setting, and so you actually have to think about how present-day cultures might evolve into the future.