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Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Rules of Communication in My Homebrew Setting

In life, we all have our challenges. One of mine, as an autistic person, is communication. Don't get me wrong--I have a Master's in English Literature, I write constantly, and I know how to understand and be understood. But there are certain social cues that are not obvious to someone like me, and I've grown fascinated by the unspoken rules of communication that seemingly everyone else knows and I don't. That fascination is going to be expressed here, in this guide, and it will explore the different expectations people have for communicating, what is considered polite and rude, and the consequences of communicating in a way that other people find strange. As regular readers know, this will entail examining all eight of the cultural groups in my homebrew setting; this will add a fun dimension to roleplay where different cultures have different tendencies and preferences. So let's get started with the rules of communication in Evanoch: