Originally Posted by AnonySimon
Originally Posted by Ellderon
Originally Posted by AnonySimon

I think that is fine if they are less "beautiful" by conventional Earthling standards. After all, there is a reason that western and eastern cultures have different ideas of what is considered "beautiful". Why should Faerunian beauty conform to what we consider "beautiful".



Because most people want beautiful elves, not alien elves?

And Faerun standards are irrelevant, elves should appear beautiful to us. I mean, I can go and say that the Xenomorphs and facehuggers from Aliens are beautiful by their own standards, but they are ugly and I'd never want to play as one, period.


So I guess my question to you, is should elves be beautiful by western standard of beauty? eastern standard of beauty? pacific islander standard of beauty? Whose standard of beauty do you think we should use when designing elves?

You raise an interesting point - when making a game for a global audience chances are most if not all characters will look ugly to everyone. I think the most acceptable and least offensive solution would be to put paper bags over their heads.