No More Reptiles with Boobs!

[Klaus]

In this case they're kindof related. they were made from dragons, (Io), Dragons don't have boobs.

Complaining about dragonboobs is like complaining that a woman with snakes for hair gave birth to a horse with feathered wings... through her NECK!

 

[Sylrae]

... I had no idea that's where pegasus supposedly came from.

And yes. I wouldn't want that in my fantasy RPG either. That's kindof retarded.

At least the Minotaur myth made a hybrid beast with elements from both parents.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

While we're at it, stop putting over-sexualized women on the cover. It alienates half the potential market, makes the rest of us look like sex starved 14-year-olds, and raises the question of why a woman would wear makeup and a dress for an eight hour slog through an orc infested forest. Or at least put David Bowie on the cover in the interest of equality.

That is kinda a different topic, though.

Having a non-human with breasts to better describe his (or rather her) sex absent of other identifying marks is not the same as sexualizing an image.

I am all for "women in reasonable armor" instead of chainmail bikinis. But that doesn't mean we can't indicate they have female features.
But we should probably focus more on making each sex described in a way that makes them attractive to identify with, instead of making only makes attractive to identify with, and females attractive sexual partners.

Though we sometimes may still try to depict males or females as sexual attractive to the other sex - romantic interests for example.

But that doesn't impact on whether females of a fictional fantasy species have breasts or not.

 

[Lwaxy]

I find that most women feel less offended about seeing sexy women on the cover of books than certain guys do. You look at the cover of Vogue or Cosmo, you'll see a long-legged woman with lots of makeup.

Wrong. When reading such - in the end pointless - magazines, women know they could never be like any of those ultimately artificial females. They aren't real, they have health issues, often look terrible without make up and really, you don't wanna be them. You even pity them a lot.


When reading more or less pointless books or playing more or less pointless RPGs, women know they could never be like those women either, but at least want to be able to pretend they could be like them. As the average woman doesn't want to be reduced to boobs and ass and a figure that would break apart when in the real world, you definitely want more realism, as in normal waisted women, normal sized boobs not making you fall down when picking up your weapon and maybe women who are not even their ideal weight.

From all the women I played with, this was the worst complaint and I can join right in. When in a world where we want at least some escape from the real world, we do not want to be reminded of such things as sexualization, men enforced body ideals and artificial boobs. Men may want that, maybe because such women can never be had in real life. RPGs are largely marketed for men, that is just it. And from what I experienced, this is one reason why women who would normally be interested in the matter do not even look at RPGs (or some card games) twice.

 

[Lwaxy]

In my experience, the issue here is less that women are offended by breasts on female humanoids than it is that men think/are worried that they'll be offended by breasts on female humanoids.

It is rather logic being upside down with such things. Sure, gods may create a race that why but... why in the world would they?

I could imagine a cat/dog people with two breasts, because evolution made the other breasts obsolete. But anything that lays eggs does not need boobs. Gods wouldn't be so dumb either.

 

[herrozerro]

It is rather logic being upside down with such things. Sure, gods may create a race that why but... why in the world would they?

I could imagine a cat/dog people with two breasts, because evolution made the other breasts obsolete. But anything that lays eggs does not need boobs. Gods wouldn't be so dumb either.

Monotremes would like to have a word with you.

 

[Klaus]

... I had no idea that's where pegasus supposedly came from.

And yes. I wouldn't want that in my fantasy RPG either. That's kindof retarded.

At least the Minotaur myth made a hybrid beast with elements from both parents.

Heh. Perseus' beheading of Medusa gave birth not only to Pegasus, but to Pegasus' brother, the fully-armored human warrior Crisaor.

There are no definite origins for the D&D races. Whatever is said in the books is only one *possible* explanation. So it is quite possible that dragonborn arose from primitive humans who got drenched in Io's blood, for instance.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Heh. Perseus' beheading of Medusa gave birth not only to Pegasus, but to Pegasus' brother, the fully-armored human warrior Crisaor.

There are no definite origins for the D&D races. Whatever is said in the books is only one *possible* explanation. So it is quite possible that dragonborn arose from primitive humans who got drenched in Io's blood, for instance.

Would everyone be happier if the creation myth was half dragons?

 

[Lwaxy]

Monotremes would like to have a word with you.

Haha yeah, forgot about them.

 

[Incenjucar]

... I had no idea that's where pegasus supposedly came from.

And yes. I wouldn't want that in my fantasy RPG either. That's kindof retarded.

At least the Minotaur myth made a hybrid beast with elements from both parents.

So, you want a more sci-fi approach to magic than a mythological one?