If we may tread lightly around the topic of race this morning, I’d like to ask an honest question to elicit honest answers. Assuming that you pick a humanoid race in an MMORPG to play, do you ever select a skin tone other than your own?
For me, I’ve occasionally walked in different shoes, but for the most part I stick with semi-swarthy skin tones that match my own. I don’t think of it as race so much as a healthy tan for adventurers, really. I did once play a Storm-like character (black skin, blinding white hair) in Guild Wars 2 for a while and rather liked her.
It is something I have wondered over the years. I know we have discussed picking different species or genders to play, but somehow it seems more difficult to choose a human race that’s other than the player’s own. I had a friend who was white but almost always picked black skin tones because he said he rarely saw people pick those in the character creators.
What about you?
Every morning, the Massively Overpowered writers team up with mascot Mo to ask MMORPG players pointed questions about the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre. Grab a mug of your preferred beverage and take a stab at answering the question posed in today’s Daily Grind!
