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What are the most beneficial RPG books a DM/GM can read? (lemmy.ml)
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In your opinion, what are the best RPG sourcebooks/supplements/resources?

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[–] Ghast@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Anthropology books taught me that humanity is more fantastic than all the fantasy races.

  • The Mbuti sang and danced as they walked, to scare away snakes. They had no words for 'good', and 'bad', so Christian missionaries couldn't translate their teachings.
  • The Azande believed in a predictable universe, and ascribed all misfortune (including death), to magical bad intentions (translated as 'witchcraft', but I'm not sure that's a great translation)
  • The Piraha language needed you to say how you learnt something inside the verb, so rumours are grammatically impossible. Their language had four modes, including 'whistling'.

I'm putting everything in the past tense as my info is about 50 years out of date.