“Hardboiled Cultures is an extremely good supplement. It gives players tools for creating diversity within the heavily stereotyped D&D player races, and then rooting them in the games systems in a logical fashion. While it is quite possible to add cultural variety to races without these tools, the mechanical tweaks Hardboiled Culture guides you through give a little extra weight to these changes, fighting the impulse to fall back on cliché. While Hardboiled Cultures does not provide a complete guide, it is useful to players that want help balancing their own original creations. Finally, if you look past the specific implementation for Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, it can even be applied easily to many other fantasy, science fiction and horror roleplaying games. There is a lot to chew on in this small package. I highly recommend it.”
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