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<blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 6581040" data-attributes="member: 6777696"><p>Yeah, I figured cobbling together was probably the only way to make it work. The example you give seems workable.</p><p></p><p>I mentioned N.K. Jemisin's <em>100,000 Kingdoms</em> in the other post, because I feel like the setting of that book does a really good job at creating ethnically diverse cultures that <em>don't</em> feel like they match back to direct real-world analogues, but includes a lot of unique peoples with diverse features. I love the idea of a setting where any player can sit down with a collection of portraits, see several and say, "yes! somebody looking like me could be from there! tell me about these 3 or 4 cultures and I'll pick the one that seems the most fun."</p><p></p><p>Players, of course, have every right to play characters who don't look like them, but a lot of players don't want to! I sat down at a store the other day, and at the beginning of the game, the DM went around and asked all the players to describe their characters. A black man's turn came up and he said, "well, he looks like me," and the DM got a little flustered trying to figure out how he would fit in the game world. He started to ask him if he meant a drow, but then stopped himself... (Great DM who, ultimately, I don't think had any ill intentions. Just the classic reality of getting thrown a curve ball in a setting where everybody just assumes that characters will be, well, white. Not that having a black man sit down to your table should be a curve ball, but that's the nature of so much of the fantasy literature our genre is grounded in.)</p><p></p><p>I don't know if I should add that I'm a white man with a European background. It's hugely important to me to have my campaign world represent something broader than dudes of my ancestry, but it can take a lot of extra work, because my own experience is so linked to eastern Europe, and, of course, the classic works I was raised on that mostly crib from western and northern Europe for inspiration.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redrick, post: 6581040, member: 6777696"] Yeah, I figured cobbling together was probably the only way to make it work. The example you give seems workable. I mentioned N.K. Jemisin's [I]100,000 Kingdoms[/I] in the other post, because I feel like the setting of that book does a really good job at creating ethnically diverse cultures that [I]don't[/I] feel like they match back to direct real-world analogues, but includes a lot of unique peoples with diverse features. I love the idea of a setting where any player can sit down with a collection of portraits, see several and say, "yes! somebody looking like me could be from there! tell me about these 3 or 4 cultures and I'll pick the one that seems the most fun." Players, of course, have every right to play characters who don't look like them, but a lot of players don't want to! I sat down at a store the other day, and at the beginning of the game, the DM went around and asked all the players to describe their characters. A black man's turn came up and he said, "well, he looks like me," and the DM got a little flustered trying to figure out how he would fit in the game world. He started to ask him if he meant a drow, but then stopped himself... (Great DM who, ultimately, I don't think had any ill intentions. Just the classic reality of getting thrown a curve ball in a setting where everybody just assumes that characters will be, well, white. Not that having a black man sit down to your table should be a curve ball, but that's the nature of so much of the fantasy literature our genre is grounded in.) I don't know if I should add that I'm a white man with a European background. It's hugely important to me to have my campaign world represent something broader than dudes of my ancestry, but it can take a lot of extra work, because my own experience is so linked to eastern Europe, and, of course, the classic works I was raised on that mostly crib from western and northern Europe for inspiration. [/QUOTE]
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