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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5864792" data-attributes="member: 2067">I'm with him the entire way through the article, and I really like the African-inspired fantasy folks there at the end -- they look like characters I want to play! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/4dreye_20120328_culturalfighter.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The picture at the end wonks me a little because I don't see a tremendous difference between the first two pictures. The face on the second one is a little less cartoony, but the body is EVEN MORE cartoony (the horns and the tail seem like they've been glued on!), and the lady at the end certainly isn't dramatically &quot;realistic,&quot; though she's closer to what I want than either of those two (seriously, HEELS? a choker? those exposed hips? Are they there to titillate 13 year old boys who don't know that the internet is full of pr0n?), but I think you could take that last one and make it more dynamic and less blocky, too. But in the larger point of the article, I am on board so far. I think he makes the case well for not going crazy realistic with the armor, and I think that's smart -- this is a game of dragons and magic, we should not be stuck in what folks in medieval Europe wore. Such a thing may be present in limited ways (okay, a full-plate knight on horseback with a lance in a temperate-to-subarctic clime), but it doesn't need to be the sole representation of armored warriors in the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5864792, member: 2067"] I'm with him the entire way through the article, and I really like the African-inspired fantasy folks there at the end -- they look like characters I want to play! :) [IMG]http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/4dreye_20120328_culturalfighter.jpg[/IMG] The picture at the end wonks me a little because I don't see a tremendous difference between the first two pictures. The face on the second one is a little less cartoony, but the body is EVEN MORE cartoony (the horns and the tail seem like they've been glued on!), and the lady at the end certainly isn't dramatically "realistic," though she's closer to what I want than either of those two (seriously, HEELS? a choker? those exposed hips? Are they there to titillate 13 year old boys who don't know that the internet is full of pr0n?), but I think you could take that last one and make it more dynamic and less blocky, too. But in the larger point of the article, I am on board so far. I think he makes the case well for not going crazy realistic with the armor, and I think that's smart -- this is a game of dragons and magic, we should not be stuck in what folks in medieval Europe wore. Such a thing may be present in limited ways (okay, a full-plate knight on horseback with a lance in a temperate-to-subarctic clime), but it doesn't need to be the sole representation of armored warriors in the game. [/QUOTE]

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