D&D (2024) Comeliness and Representation in Recent DnD Art

Yaarel

He Mage

• Apr 5, 2024

• #11

Comeliness (or Hideousness) works better as a feat than an ability.

Something like, when targets are in line of sight within range, one gains advantage to Persuasion checks (or Intimidation), and inflicts disadvantage to Charm effects (or Fear).

 

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BookTenTiger

He / Him

• Apr 5, 2024

• #12

What we really need to bring back is the Cromliness score. Conan had massive Cromliness, and he's the epitome of a great D&D character!

 

Kobold Avenger

Legend

• Apr 5, 2024

• #13

All art representing PCs should be within the ranges of attractive or appealing (and of various ethnicities and PC species) in some way, it's all about selling the idealized vision of what a character should look like.

 

Minigiant

Legend

Supporter

• Apr 5, 2024

• #14

I think the level of threat that 5e adventurers are expected to survive limit the usage of images of the obviously disfigured, out of shape, or poorly aged.

Unless you are displaying how is saved or who fails to save other or themselves.

Especially since almost every PC has 14 in at least 1 of their 3 physical scores.

 

pawsplay

Hero

• Apr 5, 2024

• #15

I mean, Michelle Rodriguez is still conventionally beautiful on many if not most markers. But she's a muscular and brawny woman with a strong face, and even by Hollywood (male) warrior standards Holga isn't depicted in a particularly glamorous way.

 

Vaalingrade

Legend

• Apr 5, 2024

• #16

Man, if the wizard got that much flack, you do not want to see what would happen was even a tiny bit over or under weight.

A lot of people have learned to stay quiet when they have something nasty to say about race or gender, but will absolutely wile out when it comes to weight.

 

ezo

I cast invisibility

• Apr 5, 2024

• #17

pawsplay said:

I mean, Michelle Rodriguez is still conventionally beautiful on many if not most markers.

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See, this is the biggest problem when we talk about what is "beauty". I've never found Michelle Rodriguez beatiful at all.

 

Micah Sweet

Level Up & OSR Enthusiast

• Apr 5, 2024

• #18

Kobold Avenger said:

All art representing PCs should be within the ranges of attractive or appealing (and of various ethnicities and PC species) in some way, it's all about selling the idealized vision of what a character should look like.

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If that's what its all about, that kinda fights against the concept of representation though, doesn't it?

 

bedir than

Full Moon Storyteller

• Apr 5, 2024

• #19

If professional athletes don't have to be conventionally beautiful and if soldiers can be "big boned" (like one of the dudes I worked with in group was supposedly too overweight to be in the Army but he maxed every fitness test a Special Forces soldier was given) then so can our fictional heroes in the dragon game be not beautiful by most measures

 

Hussar

Legend

• Apr 5, 2024

• #20

ezo said:

See, this is the biggest problem when we talk about what is "beauty". I've never found Michelle Rodriguez beatiful at all.

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Then, job done and dusted no? We have representation of heroes that are outside the generally accepted "beauty" standard. It's there in the hobby already. We could probably use some more of it as well.