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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6302956" data-attributes="member: 17106">Adventuring is a roleplaying game is also fundamentally about entertainment, even if the characters themselves might not see it that way. The books and their art are likewise to facilitate enjoyment.Quite the contrary! There isn't some set of physical postures that's restricted for sexy time and can't be used for any other purpose, and challenging situations force people to do all kinds of things to their bodies. Google Image search any female athlete and you'll find pages upon pages of unintentionally sexy poses. Training for high-level athletic performance overlaps considerably with being physically attractive. This accounts for a large portion of the qualified successes of women's sports.Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing and what it means is certainly debatable. The point I'm making is that trying hard to do difficult physical tasks is often photogenic.D&D adventurers though, are much more individualistic and showy than typical warriors, regardless of gender. And in this PHB picture, as has been noted, we're not talking about a chainmail bikini. The character appears to be wearing functional armor. If it was some fetishized thing that defied everyone's sense of disbelief that an adventurer could actually look like this, I'd say there was a problem, but that is not the case.Which is kind of sexual. Again, there is no hard line between what is and is not sexual. Combat is kind of sexual, and sexuality is kind of violent. There's inherently a partial but significant overlap there. Freud believed that the two base instincts of the id pertained to violence and sexuality. Actual male combatants, or fictional male D&D characters, are often displaying their sex appeal, even if it isn't really the main purpose.</blockquote>

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