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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 8020510" data-attributes="member: 6750908">It's generally my approach in Shroompunk to assume human hair and eyes can be any color-- including multicolored and/or somewhat luminescent-- and skin runs beyond the full human range from bleached white to coal-black and wider variety in undertones, including gith-green and a corpselike blue. Many have vestigial horns/antlers, pointed ears, and/or tails. Generally, most pre-4e D&D planetouched would be considered human by the humans of Shroompunk, if potentially human from an unknown World.By contrast, Goblins-- think a combination of Hobgoblin and an Ogre Mage-- have seven narrow bands of skin coloration (ROYGBIV) and seven even narrower bands of eye color. Their skin always falls neatly into one of these seven bands, and their eye color always falls neatly into a different one, and Goblins have a really weird caste system based on this. You'll never be able to understand the Goblin caste system on your world, and any time you guess you'll guess wrong, offensive, and offensively wrong. Goblins on other Worlds, it turns out, have a completely different caste system based on their skin and eye colors and it's even harder to understand.Goblins always have straight black hair, though.The other kith don't really have anything analogous. Kappa shells change color to reflect their draconic influence. Vanaras and Kobolds have mostly brown fur, but other colors aren't unknown. Trolls usually have black or white fur.  Dromites all look after metaphosing into adults. And the Forged start off however their maker wanted them to look... and almost immediately start changing their bodies as they see fit.It's weird how often I play character smaller than I am-- I'm just a hair under average height for an American man, a couple inches shorter than my father was, but I'm built like a tank. Most of my human characters are a couple of inches shorter than me, and not much more than half my weight.Given a choice, I'd be bigger. Of course, given a choice I'd also be darker, and have straight black hair.</blockquote>

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