> When the culture is scandinavian / celtic in style and trappings, I like to
> have the people look like it too. It's one less thing I need to explain.
> Dara Happa has Assyrian and other Fertile Crescent style aspects in their
> culture, so why shouldn't we use that as the ethnic look as well.
Because doing so reinforces the idea that the Gloranthan cultures are simply transplanted Earth cultures, and, for me, reduces some of the strangeness and other-ness of Glorantha.
> Making stuff to be different just to be different just distances people from
> the setting and makes it harder to describe,
Eh. Or not. I have generally found that going into greater levels of detail does not necessarily add to the gaming experience: "You see a group of people; you think they look like XXX." is generally sufficient for most people.
Those who want a greater level of detail are probably not going to be put off by the description of those people not having a ready parallel from Earth history; even if they were, there are going to be many, many cases in Glorantha where there simply isn't a close parallel.
(Right off the top: Uz, Mostalli, Agrimori, Morocanth.... )
Dan
-- Ha! Commentary on the Favre/Vikings bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDhD7ekiQPY
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