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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1308061" data-attributes="member: 1328">That's a bit extreme. It's not so much a question of "what a person looks like" than a question of "what most people I know and can use as model, starting by me, look like".I'm an European boy. If you asked me to write a two-page novellas on the daily life of a fictional person, chances are I would not choose, say, a Chinese girl because I don't have a clear idea what the life of a Chinese girl could be. If you force me to write about a Chinese girl, I could not say much without making stuff up or fearing to portray wrong stereotypes. So what would be the most unPC thing to do, write something reasonnably fair about someone like me (white european male) or write ignorant crap about someone unlike me ?Well, yes. But do you need to represent a whole world ? An entire D&D campaign, full with perilous travels and explorations, could be set on a territory the size of Britain. You don't have to describe the Inuits of your world if you only use the English, Welsh and Scots of your world (and maybe some travelling Irish, Dutch and French).The model for typical fantasy world is a weird medieval Europe, except with elves, gnomes, amazons, anachronisms and a lots of misconceptions about feodal life. Even with these inaccuracies, one thing remain, medieval Europe wasn't that cosmopolitans.</blockquote>