I have seen this image before but like I mentioned, if you look closely, those elves are still human-like. The difference are the pointy ears, slight eye shape and size, and their face is a bit more angular but at the end of the day, they are still human-like. The OP mention they didn't like that the elves look human with pointy ears. Shadowheart is a half elf so it makes sense for her to look more human. Astarion is a full elf but he's a vampire, maybe they could of made him look more different but the problem is that he a romanceable companion and so they also want to make him look appealing.
I'm pretty sure nobody wants them to look monstruous or ugly, just less relatable while still beautiful and that touch of strangeness to them that makes them seem not caucasic, nor african, nor asian, nor anything but elves.
Nobody except Larian who have decided entirely themselves to do as such without any consideration to how it would actually affect any group of people.
I'm gonna answer you here because it seems like your post was locked where people can't respond. To the issue of fantasy races having non-white facial features, I don't see what the problem is as long as they act like their fantasy race. For example, if you have an Orc that may have Asian or black facial features but still behaves like an orc, what is the problem with that? I also just opened up the game and went through every race and found that for females, only the Humans and Tiefllings (who have human origins) have Asian and black facial features, which is fine. Now, when it comes to the males, they seem to have mixed it up and gave Asian and black features to full Elves and Drow with the Humans only having white and black features and no Asian. They should have done for the males what they did for the females for only Humans and Tieflings, who are of human origin. To me personally, it is not game breaking to have a humanoid being resemble real world minorities and it is NOT an immersion killer. If that is the problem for some then that might make that person seem like a racist. As I mentioned to you before in the other thread, there are now Asian and black Vulcans but they still behave as Vulcans. It doesn't ruin Star Trek. So, the same can go for Dungeons and Dragons, I don't think having minorities depicted in humanoid creatures is a big deal as long as they remain to to their fantasy race's culture and personality.
Are you trying to tell me that I am a racist?
Did you get to read what I wrote, and the opinions of other people who agree with me?
I really hope you are not an adult, as your level of understanding apparently belongs to a 12 year old child. So from now on i will deal with you taking into account your immaturity.
I will explain to you in the simplest way possible, as I am really bored with all this discussion. The elves of Forgotten Realms should not represent any ethnic group as they are not human, that is, neither European, African, Asian or any other. Elves have to resemble their own race, as they already have their physical characteristics defined by the books that this game is based on, and these characteristics make them unique, which is exactly what i and others want.
It is obvious that the game has to be representative, however, we want all these ethnic groups to be represented in the human options, which is currently lacking. Still, you and others may want nonhuman races to have more human features (which doesn't make a lot of sense to me) and as I said before, i accept that, but Larian should at least make these faces more like those of the elves, that is, sharp and angular features, since at the moment they have extremely human faces, especially males, which have very strong masculine features.
Well, that's my opinion, do what you want with it.
This is the last time I will post here, as this discussion has taken a completely wrong turn, and I hope that everyone who tried to turn this into a discussion about current policies will feel ashamed. That was never my intention. All of you lack the ability to interact with others in a non-offensive manner while trying to understand the opinion of others and give your own opinion without prejudice.
