No More Reptiles with Boobs!

[Sylrae]

That always drives me crazy.

Dragons, Snake People, Birds...

If they're based on animals that aren't mammals, and aren't obviously "mammal from the waist up" like a drider or something, why are you giving the females boobs?

And why is it that cat people and dog people and such have ape boobs!

When was the last time you saw a housecat with boobs, or another question, how many nipples does a housecat have? (Hint, "not 2")

This is a personal gripe I have with alot of cheesy fantasy art, I have to admit, but its kindof dumb.

 

[Glade Riven]

Meh.

 

[YRUSirius]

When was the last time you saw a housecat with human feet and hands?

-YRUSirius

 

[Sylrae]

No! it makes LESS Sense!!!!!

Dragon Flight makes more sense than Dragon Boobs!

[edit] About Hands n Feet: Thats a concession to make them stand on 2 feet and use weapons and stuff. IE: to make them playable.

Boobs don't have mechanical implications.

 

[enrious]

What is "sence"?

 

[Shemeska]

Turn female monsters humanoid enough, and boobs help push past the uncanny valley. Or at least that's one excuse. It's like sriracha or truffles going well on any food, any remotely female creature that's intended to evoke a human form works better with them. Boobs, not sriracha or truffles.

 

[Sylrae]

Turn female monsters humanoid enough, and ... push past the uncanny valley.

It's like ... any remotely female creature that's intended to evoke a human form works better with ... sriracha or truffles.

lol. I think it's better this way.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

You know I can't belive this is still going on, I thought it ended 2 or 3 years ago. If a female player wants to play a female ______________, then why must she not look like she wants?

I assume that all PC races are like actors and actresses in moveis and shows. You take a female actress and put her in dragon born makeup, and that is a dragon born...

 

[Desdichado]

Since when are dragons reptiles? I don't know of any reptile that has six limbs or can breathe fire.

Cognitive dissonance. Dragonboobies exist because dragonborn are humanoid. Anthropomorphic even. So that players can identify with them. This notion that "everything is fantasy and weird and makes no sense anyway, but I'm going to focus on this one thing and demand that it be scientifically plausible" makes very little sense.

Or sence either, for that matter.

 

[Sylrae]

Since when are dragons reptiles? I don't know of any reptile that has six limbs or can breathe fire.

They lay eggs, and they're covered in scales. They also don't nurse their young, or have hair.

Cognitive dissonance. Dragonboobies exist because dragonborn are humanoid. Anthropomorphic even. So that players can identify with them.

If we're going that far, than I want a justification.

"They're not really related to dragons, they're reptilian apes", "They're aberrations", "They're undead made from ape parts and dragonkin parts", "They're descendents of half dragons" etc. Justify it to me.

This notion that "everything is fantasy and weird and makes no sense anyway, but I'm going to focus on this one thing and demand that it be scientifically plausible" makes very little sense.

Or sence either, for that matter.

Ah, see I dont see it as focusing on one thing and accepting that nothing else is scientifically plausible. Most of the other verisimilitude-breaking things bother me too.

There's an unusual cosmology, There's magic, There are beholders, and creatures with weird traits, I'm okay with that. Thats the premise of the game.

I just think anthropomorphising everything to have primate boobs is a little too ridiculous.