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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 7870245" data-attributes="member: 42856">As I wrote above in the thread, PCs are mostly extraordinary characters so most convention wouldn't apply to them. There is a difference between "impossible" and "common enough that nobody in the setting would notice". I would'nt disallow a Black investigator but I wouldn't be shy of having him contend with people prejudiced against him. There were racist people in the US in the 20's,. If I play in Nazi Germany, I expect to meet Nazis to oppose to, why would anyone playing America in the 20s expect not to meet Americans from the 20s? The series Timeless had a time-travelling team including a Black scientist. Having them deal with the different prejudices was a part of some of the episodes, and it enabled some interesting stories to be told. If they had depicted 19th century Alabama as a color-blind territory, it would have been odd and less interesting.How would you deal with it? If you were playing in America in the 50s, would you remove all mention of the Civil Right movement or McCarthyism?The same goes with non-historical settings: if an element of the setting is that Elves and Dwarves have been harboring a grudge for millenia and they are at each other's throat, I expect my Dwarf to be treated badly by most Elves, even if it's just racism.</blockquote>