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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8380217" data-attributes="member: 7635">Weellll.... That's where it gets dicey...Both Golarion and Forgotten Realms tried to diversify by adding "ethnic equivalent" groups of humans that resemble various ethnicities in the real world. Some people have taken issue with the notion that these groups should have any mechanical impact at all. For example, The Shou are the group of people who live in Kara Tur and closely resemble Asian peoples. Now let's say you get some up some sort of Regional Feat system where people from Kara Tur (humans, elves, tabaxi, etc.) can choose feats that give them unarmed attacks, bonuses to diplomacy, or bonus to dealing with spirit-type creatures. You'd think that since they are optional and not tied to being Shou, it would okay (a non-Shou who group in Kara Tur could take them, and a Shou raised in Waterdeep cannot) but you're still giving the bulk of the people who live in Shou (since they are the majority of the people in Kara Tur) some pretty specific mechanical/cultural traits (good at martial arts, diplomatic/polite, knowledgeable about spirits). Thus, it's still possible such systems might appear as insensitive. Can that needle be threaded? Maybe. I dunno, Smarter people than me will need to see if it's possible.</blockquote>