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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gin" data-source="post: 1308366" data-attributes="member: 15967"><p>First off, I am in no way trying to troll.  I have not attacked anyone's oppinion or degraded anyone personally.  I have stated my oppinions and thoughts on an issue which may not be as serious to everyone else but which bothered me.  We talk about getting new gamers into the hobby and I look forward to teaching my son to play in a few years.  However once again I am an experienced DM and I do change my world to play the way I want to play.  That does not mean that inexperienced DM's (especially children) will be able to do the same.  Already I have seen posts about miniatures being necessary to D&D.  Are they?  The old school gamers(those with experience running games) would probably say no.  But I see alot of newbie posts asking how can they possibly run a game without miniatures.  Why? Because they are new and it takes a certain familiarity with the rules to modify things.  There was a black poster above who stated that as a kid he pictured his characters as white, I was the same way as a kid.  I have never said gamers are racist or even that the game is racist.  What I suggested was that a wider range of skin tones and maybe even features be incorporated for the various races in the core books.  Some people believe skin color isn't important, but then why do we even take the time to write up a physical description of our characters?  I still play D&D and if I thought that WoTC or TSR were companies that condoned racism I would have stoped buying their products long ago.  I have also gamed with whites, asians and indians and yes they were some of the coolest people I met.  I believe some people are taking my questioning of the "status quo" as an attack on them personally.  Just to clear it up, I'm not.  Once again I don't understand why it is so wrong to propose that these changes be made to the game.  Wouldn't it be just as simple to dissallow dark skinned elves or golden skinned gnomes. And this way we don't alienate those who might otherwise be interested in learning and experiencing our hobby.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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