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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6524320" data-attributes="member: 22779">Now, to be fair, we do have to show some sensitivity.  Well, at least we should.  But, again, if we're playing in a real world type RPG (even a futuristic one), again, I don't think it's terribly unreasonable to ask the player to read the wikipedia blurb on the culture he's trying to come from.  I'm not looking for Oscar material here.  But, if your character is from, Canada, for example, then pronouncing it "lef tenant" rather that "loo tenant" is a good idea for a military style game.  Mentioning a Prime Minister instead of a president wouldn't hurt.  Just little things that can let everyone else at the table know that hey, this character is from this culture.I honestly think the one that might be hardest to present might be half elves.  It would be very, very easy to play a half elf as just a human that can see in the dark.  But, hey, let a bit of emo angst creep in once in a while.  You straddle two cultures, so, let people know that.Everything on your character sheet is important.  Class, race, possibly alignment, background, whatever.  Those are there to help you build a character that is memorable at the table.  Sometimes its pretty easy.  The halfling in our Dark Sun game is very, very much a halfling, to the point of keeping separate rations, one for herself with her favourite bits from whomever we've happened to kill and the other stuff that is fine in a pinch and can possibly be shared around the campfire.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  If you don't want to bother portraying the species of your character, perhaps considering human isn't a bad thing.</blockquote>

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