Practical and Cultured?

[Valion]

Greetings fellow EB fanatics

What exactly does these two traits mean for you? Does it mean because your practical your less intelligent than others? or just someone who doesn't want to understand the origins of life?

And does being cultured mean your more intelligent than others? someone who locks himself in the academia? until he gets a

In EB i've noticed Practical FM's more often get the Understanding of Natural Philosophy trait and cultured FM's mostly get the Philosopher trait. But it seems in the long run Practical FM's are better than Cultured seeing the cultured trait can become Pedantic which is -2 Influence and -1 Hit Points

In any case does having one of this traits make way for gaining other traits?

Cheers!

[Reality=Chaos]

For me practical has not much to do with intellegence, it means the character is good at solving practical problems, yet he might know a lot about philosophy. It's just that he uses what he learns for practical purposes rather than theoretical ones.

Cultured means to me that the person is an urban fellow who knows and loves the urban culture and the art that comes with it. He also knows how an urban environment works

[Andy1984]

Having tons of 'utterly pragmatic' governors, I believe the cultured-line has it's advantages as well. Cultured governor gain more influence, as opposed to the management the pragmatic governors gain. Whether there is any correlation between being practical and logistic skills or atheistic thoughts (atheist, despises the gods, hates the gods and traits like that), I do not know. I seem to be 'earning' the latter.

[Cambyses]

Practical means you are better at building stuff with your own hands, or solving logistical problems. Cultured means you spend more time at the opera/odeon. Neither really has anything to do with intelligence, although there may be an element of education involved - which is quite different.

[Rahwana]

Practical generals and FMs always better... they has management bonus and no military penalty, but those cultured FMs usually ends up as rotten 0 stars low management high influence corruptors...

[Aemilius Paulus]

Cultured is the first step in the Cultured-Erudite-Scholastic-Pedantic line of traits. Erudite is the best, but after it, you get pure penalties. Which should not be that way, as it makes no sense for an Erudite to have +1 management and a scholastic or pedantic person to lose that in favour of influence and hitpoint penalties.

[Ibrahim]

Greetings fellow EB fanatics

What exactly does these two traits mean for you? Does it mean because your practical your less intelligent than others? or just someone who doesn't want to understand the origins of life?

And does being cultured mean your more intelligent than others? someone who locks himself in the academia? until he gets a

In EB i've noticed Practical FM's more often get the Understanding of Natural Philosophy trait and cultured FM's mostly get the Philosopher trait. But it seems in the long run Practical FM's are better than Cultured seeing the cultured trait can become Pedantic which is -2 Influence and -1 Hit Points

In any case does having one of this traits make way for gaining other traits?

Cheers!

sounds like me in RL

Honestly, I prefer my characters balanced, and cancelling of their more unwanted traits. I hate to have FM's who are smart but theoretical, and practical men who are uneducated. why not balance the two, and have a practical and intelligent, well educated, man.

besides, both traits, if maintained and enhanced, can lead to other good traits.