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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8348212" data-attributes="member: 52734">What, you didn't take the crayons to your book like the rest of us did? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In my homebrew, I've been working more on the diversity of the races.  Pastel goblin subspecies, dwarves with skin the color of various rocks (and precious metal/jewel hair colors) and elves whose skin tone matches various trees (for the Wood elf variety) or who can alter their skin color/hair color on a whim (High elves, who were originally born from the Dreamlands).  Even the gnolls have skin colors ranging from yellow-green to black and white stripes/spots.The one strange thing I'm battling with is actually the human diversity.  In my homebrew, bog-standard humans (Afarians) come in all the varieties we know.  But some of the mortal-ascended gods "blessed" their original lineages/families and as a result the succeeding generations had tightly followed certain cultural appearances - the Dhorics are Roman, the Aharati are Native American, the Aztech are Aztec, the Ghan are Mongolian, the Randese are Arabic, the Skierian are Indian, the Shamess are Egyptian, and the Zend are Japanese. I had been mentally depicting them as being monolithic examples of their culture, but now I'm thinking there's no reason that with a couple of millenium (centuries for the Skierian, Ghand and Randese), that there could be quite a bit of mixing present in those subraces and a good bit of diversity as well.</blockquote>

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