Well the character creator is missing a lot of features I believe? From gameplay pov not being able to choose your starter equipment and neither the variant rules. And Aesthetics of missing faces.
As for the OP itself, me being an Asian fella, whats the issue of allowing me to do a character from other races that I could relate with? Faerun already have Kozakura that is basically Japan in Faerun. So having other races with other cultural takes is not far streching it. I understand the cultural root of the Folk being European, but thing change or it would be a constant copy pasta of Tolkien, changes like this for example allow you to be a European heavily armored knight to fight Onis and other Folk creatures that with a ultra conservative(in the sense of no changes not the political spectrum) wouldn't allow to.
True, but the issue is, elves should neither have Asian, nor Caucasian faces... they should have elven faces. Besides, Badlur's Gate is quite a ways of Kara Tur, Shou Lung and all the other, east asian inspired kingdoms. Not really topic of the discussion, though.
I know you dont want to discuss this right now to avoid derailment of the thread itself but given its high magic setting ,people can travel fairly easily from point to point. If it were a low magic setting I'd agree with the statement: How the hell you got here from bumfuck nowhere?
Now returning to the thread itself appologies to OP, maybe I'm missing the visualization of elf the non human elf features. I can think of Kerillian in Warhammer Vermintide 2, she has almost alien features with her black sclera and face shape.
FR is a high magic setting, but for a minority of people. Teleport magic and flying are really rare for the common folk. Mundane travel is the norm for most people. but this does not deny that ppl from far places can be in baldur's gate. even a main companion in the second game was from kara-tur and Minsc that comes from Rashemen, a country that is in the middle of the way between kara-tur and the sword coast, was adventuring in BG.
