Re: funny but awsome trait
Well, at first I checked it out, hoping for some ideas on ethnicities - we have tons of "higher chance for X trait", and depending upon the ethnicity those vary. But I've also taken some stereotypes of different groups and used them in other ways. Probably in no way the way the author had hoped the book would be used!
The index is a good place to start with it: Lydians: bravery of..., corrupt the Colophonians..., effeminacy of..., first traders... Things like that, looking at how they were perceived. We play to that a lot - especially from different points of view. Our KH faction maligns the backwards and drunken Macedonians when given the chance in text opportunities. Our Mak faction will often put down their southern Greek neighbors because of their poor martial skills or loquaciousness or something like that.
What would have been really nice would be a "handbook of ancient ethnic stereotypes" or something like that.
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