Editing Fantasy Counterpart Culture

'''Fantasy Counterpart Culture''' is a /tg/-relevant term shamelessly stolen from our frenemies over at [[TVTropes]]. In a nutshell, worldbuilding is hard, so, what's one way to make it easier? Why, it's to take real life cultures and slap them into your game!

There's... not much more of a way to describe it. The phenomena of Fantasy Counterpart Cultures is wide-spread, and has been going on '''''at least''''' as long as /tg/ has existed - [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (and, by inheritance, [[Pathfinder]]) is infamous for it. It's an easy way to get a solid base, and whilst it can be executed in a lazy fashion - the Knorrmen of [[Jakandor]] are such a blatant mish-mash of [[Viking]] and Native American it makes one roll the eyes - it's not inherently bad.

Fantasy Counterpart Culture is particularly likely to be used in a lazy fashion when dealing with "exotic" (to the author) cultures. It's a recurring issue for [[Oriental Adventures]], and [[Maztica]] has been blasted for how lazily it does "South American Fantasy" by literally just putting South America in the [[Forgotten Realms]].

The two settings of D&D that rely most on Fantasy Counterpart Cultures are [[Mystara]] and [[Golarion]].

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