I actually do this a lot. I have Zarek Windsoul (from Ul'dah) and a Duskwight Elezen who both have brown skin (like myself). I also main'd an Elonian back in GW2. In CoH/CoV most of my characters were brown skinned or mixed.
Is it a bad thing? I wouldn't say so at all. Their stories make/made sense but their skin color, more often than not doesn't really factor too much into their roleplay (it was a story point that my Elonian wanted to know more about his culture and Zarek now wants to know more about Highlanders, though they're a much more diverse lot comparatively). I actually used to joke with a lot of my tabletop friends by calling it "forced diversity", which is where I bring in a darker skinned PC in a world traditionally filled with pale to light skinned people on the whole.
Now do I only play characters who look like me? Not at all. But the majority are because (even if few would admit it) it makes them stand out visually because on the whole alongside other characters. I also want to point out that I don't usually make much of a fuss about their skin tones because their character/personality/etc is more important (I've known a few people who do/have done this and I've found it can be sometimes offputting to others to say the least).
Is it a bad thing? I wouldn't say so at all. Their stories make/made sense but their skin color, more often than not doesn't really factor too much into their roleplay (it was a story point that my Elonian wanted to know more about his culture and Zarek now wants to know more about Highlanders, though they're a much more diverse lot comparatively). I actually used to joke with a lot of my tabletop friends by calling it "forced diversity", which is where I bring in a darker skinned PC in a world traditionally filled with pale to light skinned people on the whole.
Now do I only play characters who look like me? Not at all. But the majority are because (even if few would admit it) it makes them stand out visually because on the whole alongside other characters. I also want to point out that I don't usually make much of a fuss about their skin tones because their character/personality/etc is more important (I've known a few people who do/have done this and I've found it can be sometimes offputting to others to say the least).
Martiallais Heuloix - Duty. Honor. Faith.
Armand Tremaux - Justice, like lightning.
"We're all snowflakes in a great blizzard." - Virara 2017
Armand Tremaux - Justice, like lightning.
"We're all snowflakes in a great blizzard." - Virara 2017
