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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 705196" data-attributes="member: 891">My previous post said, I find the best way to do ethnic groups in a fantasy world is to set up three elements:Describe them physically as well as how they commonly dress or otherwise adorn themselves.Describe a basic history that brought about that group into it's current state.Describe the dominant cultural trend among that group. Break this down with family, religion, and general social mores.One good way is to find three unique features or angles in each of these three categories.I don't see any need to involve any game mechanics in any of it.For those lists, I could easily do a real world example of nearly any real world group without stepping into offense or even stereotypes.An example:Han Chinese:Han Chinese makes up 93 percent of the total population. According to the 1995 sample survey of 1 percent of China's population, there were 1.09932 billion Han peopleepicanthic eye fold, black or brown usually straight hair. tan or milky complexions. broad noses are common. The 'Mongolian Spot' commonly believed to be a feature of all Asians and most Native Americans, is actually -not- common among Han Chinese.Through tracing DNA bio-anthropology claims they migrated to asia from central asia in the early parts of human existance (part of a second wave if you will, the first wave having put people in Central Asia and Australia). Central asia being the branching off point for the people now in europe and asia. There is a shared history dating back some 5000 years of written record, possibly longer before writing. Several major scientific developments came out of this ethnic group: gunpowder, printing (a counter claim places printing as a Korean development), silk, pasta to name a few. Han Chinese have been the dominant group in China for quite some time, and are what most people think of when they think of Chinese.Strong family ties, with the extended family playing a major role, often more important than the direct nuclear family. Traditional religion blends a mix of ancestor worship with buddhism. Larger traditional society is highly structured with social order being more valued than individual freedom.</blockquote>

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