They don't have to be Sexy. After all, Conan (Big Beefy Guy in a Loincloth) isn't "attractive", if you ask many women. That's not what's SEXY. Steroids with a sword isn't what makes'm swoon.I don't know that it's to do with attractiveness.
There are a good few races that are deliberately in violation of what American culture considers to be attractive: Dragonborn, Tieflings, Dwarves, Halflings, and Goliaths.
I don't know that it's to do with attractiveness.
There are a good few races that are deliberately in violation of what American culture considers to be attractive: Dragonborn, Tieflings, Dwarves, Halflings, and Goliaths.
They don't have to be Sexy. After all, Conan (Big Beefy Guy in a Loincloth) isn't "attractive", if you ask many women. That's not what's SEXY. Steroids with a sword isn't what makes'm swoon.
Besides, those get a pass for being badass. Awesome. Grim dark and broody!
Usually, Fat doesn't draw that same connotation.
I don't think you'd find a lot of people, male or female, who would consider dragonborn sexy.
If I want to play a short, fat race, (by definition) what are my options?
I'm glancing through the PHB2 and realize more and more that only tall, skinny people are considered smart and good and all-that. I get the impression that the next race is going to be 9 feet tall because that's evidently where all this is going. Why arent' there short fat races? Even gnomes, with their 'high cheekbones' must have been put on the Atkins diet and now working out with warlords who have the athletic-trainer feat.
If I want to play a short, fat race, (by definition) what are my options?
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