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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belen" data-source="post: 1309730" data-attributes="member: 1405">Gin,I guess I do not see your point.  Mialee does not look like a white girl to me.  If anything, she has an asian look to her with her dark skin and midnight hair.Your complaint that elves in the PHB are modeled on whites is just plain wrong.KB: I tend to like a lot of your arguments.  But some of your comments in this thread seem to harbor an intense dislike of...well.... white guys.  And you seem to have fallen for the PC propagranda that says that even tolerant white guys are racists (because of society), while non-whites are all loving and tolerant, which is a blatant, bigoted lie.Personally, I subscribe to the human viewpoint.  Everyone is human until they prove otherwise.CultureNow, Gin, if you want to debate the culture of DnD, then I will be right on your side.  Personally, I have a real problem with the mono-cultural themes presented in the PHB and that of most WOTC worlds.  Most DnD culture is western in nature.  Humans, elves etc all seem to behave in a western style and I would love to see differences.However, I agree that the world really needs to do this rather than the generic rules book.  However, it would be nice to see a dicussion on fitting different cultures into a campaign world in the DMG.Personally, in my campaign world every race adhere to the regional culture.  All elves do not have the same culture, instead the elves of one region will be a part of the culture and they just follow built-in instincts.  For instance, elves are gypsies in one region and bedouin in the next.  They fit into the culture that they belong.Skin color also depends on a region and that goes for ALL races.  In the area where African culture exists, all races are people of color, although the different races do not look human.</blockquote>

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