Should Your Avatar's Skin Match Yours?

It should be totally different, thank you for the share from NPR brother Chip.

It's a game. I play world of Warcraft where my main is a giant blue skinned alien called a Draenei. I also have night elves and dark iron dwarves whose skin color can't be matched to my own.

No. In fact, they don't even have to match race, sex, or even species. That is the fun thing about gaming, you can be whatever you want.