tall, with long flowing black hair and dark eyes.

i keep reading character descriptions from folks all over the place and they are always playing "pretty" people. is it just me?

does noone play a pudgy, balding axe-weilder with a patchy beard?

remember zoltan fom that flash gordon movie? heroes more usually look like that too me.

i realize it is a small thing, but i keep running into "with a thick ponytail hanging past his waist and dreamy eyes that look right through you. he is slow to make friends but steadfastly loyal through even death if he finds.."

i am thinking most would be "sorta thick in the middle with a patchy beard and a echoing laugh that betrays his small mouth. his gnarled, scarred hands are thick and have yellowed fingernails. he likes most everyone, and has come to trust nearly all men at arms. a small bit of his gut hangs out past the bopttom edge of his chainmail shirt and this is the only place he hasn't lost the thick blanket of coarse wooly hair on his chest. he walks with a bit of a waddle."

is it just me? i know this is just a pet peeve, but all the character descriptions i am reading all start to sound alike.

For a one off (that will hopefully turn into something more lasting), I created a wizard/cleric (heading toward Mystic Theurge, just because I wanted to see if it was viable) that was out of shape with a pot belly, yet still had spindly limbs. He was otherwise rather plain.

Oh - he also had a comb over. A really bad comb over.

to sum up...

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easy there clay you are scaring me with the pics

alsih2o said:

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Whoah dude, cool picture of Skynyrd!

Hey!

That "heroes" picture is of my family reunion! How'd you get that?

... and I tend to play half-orcs, so my cool ponytail doesn't get me the babes.

My favorite character was a balding, exceptionally hairy halfling that made sasquatch look hairless...

...basically, myself, squnched down to about 3' tall.

Here's the ranger I've been playing for the last 8 years. Malachi:

Pepto, my halfling rogue that I played in Olgar's game, had terrible acne and was no beauty.