Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Lend me your opinions!
Where do you stand on period accurate play bys?
Personally, I much prefer that play bys be period accurate, but near enough is close enough for me. So long as there are no obvious anachronisms in the image, I'm good.
However, I don't care enough to actually police avatars. It's enough for me to lead by example without adding avatar rules.
I prefer accuracy because I find modern looks to be jarring, it takes me out the scene. I do however, appreciate that finding the right play by can be hard (I'm uber picky about them) so I don't want to make the cosmetics any harder. I just don't think it's worth it.
Where do you stand? Why? If you enforce period accuracy, how strict are you?