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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1307665" data-attributes="member: 1656">What you're talking about is a setting-specific piece of information.If you read the Race section of the SRD, you'll find no reference whatsoever to the skin colour of an elf or a dwarf.The Player's Handbook, on the other hand, is nominally related to the Greyhawk setting.  Again, you won't find Heironeous and Obad-Hai in the SRD - the SRD is settingless.  But these Greyhawk deities appear in the PHB.If the PHB used Rokugan as the nominal setting, then things would generally have a more Rokuganish feel to them.  If it used Nyambe, they'd have a Nyambic feel.  As it stands, they have a Greyhawkian feel.If you're not playing in Greyhawk, then look at the SRD.  No flavour information about the races.  Use the flavour of the setting you're using.If the setting you're using has dark-skinned elves, where's the problem?Greyhawk is just a sample of what you can do.They had to use something, and Greyhawk is a long-established D&D setting familiar to a lot of the readership.But it's just an example.-Hyp.</blockquote>