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<blockquote data-quote="slobster" data-source="post: 8350706" data-attributes="member: 6693711">I just needed to do something to acknowledge how much this makes me laugh, and the site only let's me like it once.I think some people hear me say it would be cool to let people play Indian looking halflings, or have Polynesian looking elves in a settings art, and they start thinking I'm trying to insinuate that their setting is racist for not doing so.No dude, if it isn't an issue at your table, don't sweat it. But if someone comes to your group one day and asks if they can be a Chinese looking Goliath, what really are you gaining by turning them down? How does art that reflects some diversity in other races in professional sourcebooks somehow lessen your game? If you play a hyper lore intensive setting where you've worked out how latitudes affect melanin production in your literal magical elf people and it affects your immersion to have any exceptions, well okay, but in my games where lizards the size of buildings can somehow fly and literal gods exist and sometimes accidentally give birth to entire races of sentient beings on a drunken dare, it seems fussy to ever police the skin color of the party gnome.I mean how many times has a player asked me to play a tabaxi fencer that wears nothing but boots, or an elf that ran away from. his tribe because he isn't obsessed with baking cookies? (actual characters...and the elf was actually pretty fun) Give me a player that just wants her character to reflect part of her identity any day...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="slobster, post: 8350706, member: 6693711"] I just needed to do something to acknowledge how much this makes me laugh, and the site only let's me like it once. I think some people hear me say it would be cool to let people play Indian looking halflings, or have Polynesian looking elves in a settings art, and they start thinking I'm trying to insinuate that their setting is racist for not doing so. No dude, if it isn't an issue at your table, don't sweat it. But if someone comes to your group one day and asks if they can be a Chinese looking Goliath, what really are you gaining by turning them down? How does art that reflects some diversity in other races in professional sourcebooks somehow lessen your game? If you play a hyper lore intensive setting where you've worked out how latitudes affect melanin production in your literal magical elf people and it affects your immersion to have any exceptions, well okay, but in my games where lizards the size of buildings can somehow fly and literal gods exist and sometimes accidentally give birth to entire races of sentient beings on a drunken dare, it seems fussy to ever police the skin color of the party gnome. I mean how many times has a player asked me to play a tabaxi fencer that wears nothing but boots, or an elf that ran away from. his tribe because he isn't obsessed with baking cookies? (actual characters...and the elf was actually pretty fun) Give me a player that just wants her character to reflect part of her identity any day... [/QUOTE]

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