Is everyone in Eberron white?

[Pielorinho]

I will say that in my campaign worlds, I'll mention the color of a character's skin the same way I'll mention the color of her eyes or her sash. Characters have different colors for all these features, and different ethnic groups tend toward different colors, but I've not found much call for creating social discrimination in my game based on skin color.

Daniel

 

[reveal]

Get down off your high horse. My example was to make an observation with an absurdity. I think the whole issue of race entering fantasy is kind of silly. Don't we have enough problems in the real world?

Not on a high horse... Simply pointing to a message on a board and using it as an example. "Implications" are hard to read in a message when it's simply a bunch of words on a screen. Without anything but text, I have no way of knowing exactly how you feel about your message, whether it's legit or not or whether you are being sarcastic, argumentative, etc.

BTW, how do you know I was not being silly as well? You don't. You can only go by words typed on a screen. You made a judgement just as I did. But, of course, since I misjudged your post, you get angry and accuse me of acting morally superior. To each his own...

 

[Mystery Man]

Not on a high horse... Simply pointing to a message on a board and using it as an example. "Implications" are hard to read in a message when it's simply a bunch of words on a screen. Without anything but text, I have no way of knowing exactly how you feel about your message, whether it's legit or not or whether you are being sarcastic, argumentative, etc.

BTW, how do you know I was not being silly as well? You don't. You can only go by words typed on a screen. You made a judgement just as I did. But, of course, since I misjudged your post, you get angry and accuse me of acting morally superior. To each his own...

I'd hug you if you were here.

 

[reveal]

I'd hug you if you were here.

Hmmm... What is he really trying to say?

 

[Hand of Evil]

No

Did you know that a simple no is too short of an answer!

 

[Fester]

Most designers avoid thse kinds of issues like the plague and just leave it to the imagination of those who run the world. It's just way too political - somebody, somewhere (and not necessarily those that actually play the game, mind you) is going to get offended. It's also very difficult to avoid stereotypes - much of the fantasy genre is built on stereotypes - and that will almost certainly offend an even larger number of people.

Of course, it doesn't have to be this way, but, game or not, some issues are just too sensitive for most games companies.

 

[ledded]

Our group's game is always diverse. We have players of different real-world backgrounds play characters with completely differing game ethnicities. Several times we have had a player of one sex play a character of the opposite sex, which can be a bit of a roleplaying challenge at times.

Honestly, just because the vast majority of artwork sticks to one particular ethnic flavor for whatever playable races there are in a game doesnt mean you have to, or should even think you need to. For whatever reasons, a lot of games tend to stick to certain archetypes. As a group, we tend to have great fun taking those archetypes, trashing them and then reinventing them into something else much more interesting. Want to play an asian-flavored elven mage, a pale slavic dwarf merchant, or a paladin who is modelled on a female african warrior? Go for it, I always say.

BTW, how do you know I was not being silly as well? You don't. You can only go by words typed on a screen. You made a judgement just as I did. But, of course, since I misjudged your post, you get angry and accuse me of acting morally superior. To each his own...

Well, to be fair, your choice of emoticon/smilie in your post did lead *me* to believe that you were being somewhat serious, yet another failing of a text + goofy icon system of communication . But then again, it is a touchy subject, one that, as our kind moderator pointed out, is very much subject to quickly heated discourse and easily tread feelings.

 

[Crothian]

Is everyone in Eberron white?

I hear some area metal gray....

 

[Hand of Evil]

I hear some area metal gray....

Chrome too!

Hey, some of the metal guys also paint cool flame mustaches on their heads!

 

[TheFan]

I'd imagine that people in southern khorvaire tend towards duskier skin tones while those in northern will be paler. Karrnathi I see as very Aryan in appearance, while native Brelanders I see as having an Indian appearance. Q'Barra I see as very racially mixed. The Shadow Marches people probably tend towards grey-green skin tones, probably with pronounced lower jaws due to centuries of interbreeding with orcs. *shrug* Really, what does "black" and "white" mean in a world where "Green" and "purple" are valid skin tones?