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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 1306101" data-attributes="member: 5868">I think you have to take into account that as the original fantasy RPG, D&D is drawing directly from fantasy literature sources (later RPGs have the luxury of drawing from both literary sources and other game systems).  The overwhelming majority of D&D's sources are Western European-style fantasy, which don't reflect the multiethnic natures you discuss. Over the years, I don't think the various corporate owners have wanted to drift to far from D&D's roots, if only to maintain that link to previous editions to drag along existing fans.  Like it or not, D&D is still primarily Western European fantasy at its core.With d20, it's becoming much more, and I think you'll see a much broader spectrum in the future, which -- much as I detest revisionism purely for political correctness -- is probably a good thing.  But you'd likely have a hard time convincing folks that a multicultural fantasy is still D&D, if for example 4th Ed used Western Eurpoean humans, Eastern Eurpoean elves, Asian-cultured gnomes, Arabic halflings, African dwarves, and Native American orcs -- it's too great a departure from the elements that people recognize as D&D.Edit: Note that I'm discussing WOTC's core D&D -- there's a lot of great variety in 3rd party d20 sources, whether African-styled cultures in Nyambe or Asiatic gnomes in Gnomes: Masters of Illusion.  With the D20STL, if you can't find something that fits you, maybe it's time you wrote it! <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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