Honestly? Frankly yes seeking the source material does encourage a player to learn the lore and system true. But, think of buying a game and it didn't have a manual or utorial to explain how to play or all they little buffs and debuffers meant or what class or races do and don't? It can be a bit frustrating to play blindly. You end up spensing more time searching and not kniw id the data in your search is presumed or even accurate.
Prefered we as players would like to know what we are building or getting ourselves into. Genuinely, only really young kids jump in the fray od the unknown. And in a game like PotM jumping into the unknown can be lethal lol.
I recommend contacting a DM really. I'm not certain if posting subrace stats is wrong persay but it is beneficial for some people who wish to know or learning.
Just a recommendation but I would look up the resource for third edition Ravenloft Eratta or Beyond the Mists these may help with the diffrent human types you may be looking for. Whether they plug an play friendly might be better for a Developer to aid in that.
Well I quite enjoy the server, and I can see keeping an air of mystery about things being a good policy in general. Its certainly creates a sense of adventure and the unknown that I can live with even if there are casualties in terms of convenience.
Though there should probably be an option to reselect your subrace in the OOC room before starting the game; Or otherwise to delete characters (which is a whole other decade long debate), with this policy in place.As for identifying what traits certain subraces have, I think trial and error is the only real way to get to the bottom of this. Yesterday I tried searching through all the human subraces, and I can safely say that most of them do not return any google results. Only the very popular and well known ones (basically the ones in my original post) return stat blocks.
For example almost none of the human denominations in the ravenloft setting had any result (the only exception was half vistani). If you look up Gundarkite, Barovian, Dementlieu, you just get some background about the setting and population. I am going to assume that none of these other subraces have any stat/skill/misc adjustments.
I also have no idea if Planar human or Athasian Human have any adjustments because again, google was not very helpful.
So if you are dying to know whats out there, you just need to make a character for every subrace. And if you are not as curious, then just play settings that you know.
Either way, the policy is to not publish this information. If it was meant to be common knowledge, the devs would have released these details a long time ago.