Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sorrowdusk" data-source="post: 5389706" data-attributes="member: 96342">Here's a thought a random thought that occured to me looking at another thread. Now, typically DnD is set in some form or variety of 'european fantasy'. Occassionally, you might do something like an oriental adventures kind of thing. Now, there are various player races, dwarves, elves, humans and all the like-but of course humans arent divided into ethnicities, they count them all as one group.  Now if you were playing in a Rokugan type setting, you would probably expect all the characters to be 'asian' (or what we would consider to be asian, as within the setting there is no 'asia'), and it would probably be asian-centric (ala Airbender's setting) no different than Tolkien's story was more or less european-centric (although there were the Southrons in there IIRC). In contrast, some settings might attempt to replicate the real world variety within human culture, and so you may get equivalents or hodge podges of many peoples.  But here's a few questions:-IF you were doing an OA style setting...would you allow one of your players to play a PC that by their own description was caucasian (ala Last Samurai) or vice versa with a primarily european styled setting? -How often do your homesettings include all ethnicities of humans that exist in real life; do you make room to include specific lands that these people hail from?-Do your elves and dwarves, etc include as much variety within one another as humans? Or are all your dwarves scotts?-In your experience, do you (or your players) when playing Humans at least, tend to play characters who are of their own ethnicity, or does it depend on the setting? I myself (african american) have only played a black character thrice once in Vampire, CoC and PbP but also in LARP;I only made a caucasian character once; over the course of my human characters I've played several middle-eastern, and East Indian characters, with a few east asians. "You almost never see black people in D&D or FRPG art-its like one in a million. If you or me were to just magically show up in a fantasy setting, 9/10 times people would be like 'Where did you come?' "-friend of mine to me once It makes me feel good to see the PF paladin. <a href="http://paizo.com/image/content/RiseOfTheRunelords/Pathfinder7_Paladin.jpg" target="_blank">http://paizo.com/image/content/RiseOfTheRunelords/Pathfinder7_Paladin.jpg</a> Other than the 3.5 Iconic Monk, I think I can recall a divine martial PrC's art actually, which I can quite recall the name of. I'll also bring up the oldschool Queen of The Spiders; on the cover of which the drow are black. I thought it was kind of hot ;D. <a href="http://tsr.bothgunsblazing.com/dd1/gdq1-7.jpg" target="_blank">http://tsr.bothgunsblazing.com/dd1/gdq1-7.jpg</a> On a random side note, how have the drow changed? I know at one point they were night black, then black (ethnically; but not for long), then blue, and now in more recent incarnations this kind of purple color.</blockquote>

Verification