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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6077241" data-attributes="member: 92511">I'm not sure which free pdf red box you're talking about, but the red box I know of has these elves...[ATTACH]56088[/ATTACH] (I can't believe nowhere I could find has the Jeff Easley halfling and elf picture....but that one is in that red box, too. And looking at my copy, in that picture, also, they were not sticking perpendicular to their skulls!)To go a bit pre- and post- Basic red box D&D we have:[ATTACH]56089[/ATTACH][ATTACH]56090[/ATTACH][ATTACH]56091[/ATTACH][ATTACH]56092[/ATTACH]Nowhere in here are ears poking out of their heads sideways.As already noted, that is clearly from japanese/anime influence, most likely the gods-awful look popularized in Lodoss War, which I will not even dignify with a link. We HATESSS extended, oversized and ridiculously angled (WoW anyone?) ears on elves. HATES THEM!They need to: Put the elf ears BACK against their heads, where they belong, and STOP trying to change stuff that there is NO reason to change!Put muscle back on the legs of...well...everything.Put the hair back on the halfling's feet (there's gotta be SOME way to get this around Tolkien...or get permission for it. It's been 35 f-in' years for cryin' out loud.)...or, as suggested, on SOME halflings' feet and let others have the little boot-wearing kender-wannabes that seem to be popular for some reason.Put snouts back on the orcs...why is EVERY gods-blessed [monstrous] humanoid have mushed in faces with tiny puggish noses?Put some proportion back into the length of legs (along with the muscles to support them, mentioned above).\Put back braces on EVERYTHING (apparently) that walks on 2 legs to improve their posture.Put some height on the gnomes...When did they become shorter than halflings?...And why were they?!To summarize and reiterate: STOP trying to change stuff that there is NO reason to change!Ain't broke. So you aren't "fixing" anything! Just making more problems and turning people OFF.Oh, and a PS: as reasonable as the "northman barbarian guy" appears, for the most part, here we go again with a battle axe that he couldn't possibly lift, let alone wield with any control in battle. KNOCK THAT OFF!</blockquote>

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