Non-eurocentric flavoring?

we were a group of white British people who know as close to nothing about that culture as possible.

You're right, absolutely, but also people shouldn't let their lack of knowledge slow them down. Medieval England is as much like D&D as the Flintstones is like paleolithic Europe.

The social structure is completely different, lords treat 'adventurers' like peers rather than outlaws, the live-and-let-live attitude to religion. Tiefling Warlocks should be burned at the stake in every village. It isn't about the fact that there are wizards and dragons, D&D simply isn't at all like anywhere in medieval Europe.

A DM may know nothing about Polynesia under the Srivijaya or Three Kingdoms China or feudal Japan that they didn't learn from a Disney movie, but they could still be as accurate in their representation of those cultures as D&D is of medieval Europe.

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