fuindordm
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Yeah, I'm sick of seeing tentacles & air sacs every time I crack open a D&D book!
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Yeah, I'm sick of seeing tentacles & air sacs every time I crack open a D&D book!
Incenjucar
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You know, I'd love to see a panoramic picture of a bunch of the same types of characters drawn in different styles in the middle of conflict as part of a discussion starter on differences in style and tone.
Imagine, say, a whole bunch of different visions of what an orc are were all in a brawl. Everything from pig-faced chubby guy to brawny green shaman in giant spiked pauldrons to grotesque wrinkled thing with a lantern jaw bigger than its skull.
Imagine, say, a whole bunch of different visions of what an orc are were all in a brawl. Everything from pig-faced chubby guy to brawny green shaman in giant spiked pauldrons to grotesque wrinkled thing with a lantern jaw bigger than its skull.
GX.Sigma
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Do they have lizard nipples? What do lizard nipples look like? What does lizard milk taste like (or do they shoot lightning out of their
)? How can baby lizards suckle if they have that keratinous beak?I'm not saying female Dragonborn can't have a feminine figure, but we have to draw the line somewhere.
Do they have lizard nipples? What do lizard nipples look like? What does lizard milk taste like (or do they shoot lightning out of their
I'm not saying female Dragonborn can't have a feminine figure, but we have to draw the line somewhere.
Also, are dragonborn mammals? If not, they shouldn't have breasts.
Incenjucar
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Can we please not get into the "dragonboobs" conversation here?
It becomes a bunch of rapid-fire half-educated claims that are made strictly to reinforce personal preferences and which don't go anywhere useful.
It becomes a bunch of rapid-fire half-educated claims that are made strictly to reinforce personal preferences and which don't go anywhere useful.
Klaus
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I'll ask Jon.
Gold Roger
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Such huge topic this time. As the author it's not just about sexism.
How to depict characters in D&D?
I'd like to think that the ranges of PC's, heroes and adventurers, of villains, powerplayers and ordinary guys each are at least as varied as that of real people.
So please give me chubby clerics, handsome blackguards and paladins that aren't models. That leaves plenty of places for superheroes and topmodels, this isn't grimdarkland after all (in all cases male and female aply).
Further on:
Sensible proportions and poses aren't just a thing I reguire by taste, it's something I expect professional commisioned artists to be able to do.
And please, please, please, give me sensible armor. Unless the armor depicted is very magical or the depicted character is actually a noncombat showof, I don't want awesome pictures of impressive female warriors in full plate, ruined by her only wearing a miniskirt between belt and boots or breastcleavage.
Again, all this leaves places for plenty of execandy male and female. D&D will always have it's cultists, witches and warlocks, vampires and drow, fey and saints, who are crazy enough to run around in all kinds of ridiculous getups.
How to depict characters in D&D?
I'd like to think that the ranges of PC's, heroes and adventurers, of villains, powerplayers and ordinary guys each are at least as varied as that of real people.
So please give me chubby clerics, handsome blackguards and paladins that aren't models. That leaves plenty of places for superheroes and topmodels, this isn't grimdarkland after all (in all cases male and female aply).
Further on:
Sensible proportions and poses aren't just a thing I reguire by taste, it's something I expect professional commisioned artists to be able to do.
And please, please, please, give me sensible armor. Unless the armor depicted is very magical or the depicted character is actually a noncombat showof, I don't want awesome pictures of impressive female warriors in full plate, ruined by her only wearing a miniskirt between belt and boots or breastcleavage.
Again, all this leaves places for plenty of execandy male and female. D&D will always have it's cultists, witches and warlocks, vampires and drow, fey and saints, who are crazy enough to run around in all kinds of ridiculous getups.
Interesting article. I hate this thread is this long, I have no idea where the new discussions start....
I think you can be sexy (male and female) w/o being offensive. I think, otoh, that some people need to examine if lack of proper clothing is really offensive, or just something nice to look at.
It's a constant struggle, not just in art, but in clothing, especially for women.
I'm not sure there is an easy answer to this particular question, as offensive is highly individualistic.
I think you can be sexy (male and female) w/o being offensive. I think, otoh, that some people need to examine if lack of proper clothing is really offensive, or just something nice to look at.
It's a constant struggle, not just in art, but in clothing, especially for women.
I'm not sure there is an easy answer to this particular question, as offensive is highly individualistic.
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I'd like for them to use the art that will help sell the game to their customers, and stop trying to turn them all into an idealized hodgepodge of multicultural utopia visions.
That means chain-mail bikinis and hawt women, on as many pages as is practically possible.
That means chain-mail bikinis and hawt women, on as many pages as is practically possible.
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