I know white authors have a habit of describing dark skin tones with food or beverages and I don’t want to do that.
Cocoa, caramel, coffee, etc. I’m not much of a fiction writer but I am running a dnd campaign with POC and don’t want to be a stereotype lol
Edit: various soil types is a promising contender added by my partner
You could try minerals.
Lmao, one of my players is a geologist. This would be a very good one for him specifically
Just keep in mind that the same mineral can sometimes be a multitude of colors. For instance, gypsum can be clear, white, brown, orange, yellow, or green. Fluorite can be basically any color.
Good to know, I’d probably get called out for it if I messed it up lol
I feel like I saw something like this in a CRPG character creator, but I can’t remember which game it was. Alabaster was one of the super pale
colors.
i wanna say one of the recent(ish) divinity games did this?
I think you’re right - Original Sin 1 probably?
yup! it may have been both OS1 and 2 thinking on it.
Onyx and Alabaster skin tone do occasionally popup in literary arts.
Wait…does that player work at a restaurant despite being a geologist? Cause if so, that’s my co-worker, if no weird coincidence. He’s a big dnd guy
Nah but it be like that, he installs sound systems
For sure a different guy. Mine has like a weird lack of music knowledge. He just never got into any music in general. He makes an amazing blank slate to show my weird experimental stuff to
ooh I really like this going to steal this idea
https://soils.uga.edu/files/2016/08/Munsell.pdf
Using the munsell scale in ways never seen before lmao
Hahahaha holy shit this is an incredible crossover
“Their gleyed complexion indicated prolonged period without oxygen; I’d finally caught the autoerotic asphyxiation bandit”
The Army Painter did this with their Fanatics range.