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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Witness" data-source="post: 1309062" data-attributes="member: 1500">posted by nHammer:Well in the original situation gin described, the people in question were new to the game and likely haven't had an opportunity to read the books in detail, and shouldn't be expected to have scoured the Player's Handbook for those few lines that deal with skin color.  What a newbie, or any one remotely interested in the game has done however, is picked up a PHB and flipped through the pages and seen the pictures.  And if these people have had little or no experience with RPGs, much less D&D, it is no way 'stupid' for them to assume that their character should (or should not) look a certain way.posted by Turjan:First of all, noone is asking for quotas.  Second of all, the debate is about NON-HUMAN races.  No one is denying the diverse representations of human ethnicities in the books.  Lastly, why would it, or should it be based on ethnicity in the US?  D&D is played all around the world, in many countries and languages, and by people of all color.  If you are going to use ethnic composition you have to look at the whole world, not just one country.</blockquote>