Blue mud, or pie with a fork Jeff Zeitlin 30 Jul 2021 23:22 UTC

It is a common trope in fiction, and in [good] SF particularly (and it's
even considered a good idea in real life, "ugly American" notwithstanding),
that when one is in "somebody else's" milieu, one should do one's best to
conform to the expectations of that milieu, or at least know enough to
avoid giving offense.

DGP's _World Builders' Handbook_ (WBH) provided some rules for generating
customs that PCs could theoretically run afoul of. However, rather than
asking people to pull out their PRNGs and copies of WBH, I'd rather ask
people to think about and list those kinds of 'things' that they've
encountered in real life, and maybe come up with a couple of variations on
them that could make life interesting for PCs.

NOTE: "R-rated" is specifically NOT excluded - I recall some examples in
fiction where starting from the assumption that if you stuck to what mom
taught you was decent/indecent, you couldn't go wrong, went wrong.

(Bonus points to anyone who can name the two references I was thinking of
when I wrote the subject line.)

®Traveller is a registered trademark of
Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2020. Use of
the trademark in this notice and in the
referenced materials is not intended to
infringe or devalue the trademark.

--
Jeff Zeitlin, Editor
Freelance Traveller
    The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Resource
xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com
http://www.freelancetraveller.com

Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following
enterprises for hosting services:

onCloud/CyberWeb Enterprises (http://www.oncloud.io)
The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)