Picture of the Week: The original hot elf chick (?) and freinds

[Summer-Knight925]

why are there no hot dwarven women?

 

[MarkB]

One of my young guilty pleasures was a picture of a curly-haired woman wearing a Viking-esque helmet (without the horns).... I believe she may have been a Cleric, and she was in the Blue Expert series handbook for D&D. For you purists, I don't remember which version, but it was in a box set and I think the Isle of Dread was packaged with it?

Curly-haired-woman-in-not-horned-viking-helm puts me in mind of this Dragonlance novel cover:

Doesn't match the rest of your description, though.

I remember that image because I used a slightly-doctored version of the guy on the left as the character image of my long-running half-orc paladin.

 

[haakon1]

one of the things I idly wondered about back in my gaming days was just why hot chicks would take up the life of an adventurer, risking death, dismemberment, and scarring. Why wouldn't they use their looks to marry into nobility and be set for life? But hey, if they did that, we wouldn't have pictures of hot elf chicks, I suppose...

IMC, elves don't scar.

I don't remember if I got that from Tolkien or just made it up, but it seems to work, and is a good explanation for the Hot Elf Chick adventurers of the world.

If asked (hasn't come up), I'd also say that magically healed wounds don't scar -- if they did scar, every party would be all scars, no skin.

 

[Lanefan]

If asked (hasn't come up), I'd also say that magically healed wounds don't scar -- if they did scar, every party would be all scars, no skin.

I actually have tables I roll on for scarring - I usually check at the end of each adventure to see if anyone picked up any serious scarring (can affect Dex. or Cha. if severe enough and-or if in the wrong place).

Receiving a Heal spell from any source clears all scarring. Less powerful cures do not.

Lan-"if she's still attractive after two weeks field adventuring in a grimy dungeon with no baths, she's a keeper"-efan

 

[Herobizkit]

Good attempt, [MENTION=55295]marcb[/MENTION], but the pic I'm thinking of is in black+white and is a simple line drawing.

 

[Filcher]

I know, right? That's the same slip of the memory I'm having. She could have been a fighter... I remember she had a shapely breastplate, too (as my inner 12-year-old snickers).

Digging around, I think it was in the dark blue box Expert Set.

I'd hate to think she was in one of the Gazetteers...

Is she being turned to stone? (I'm thinking it had to be an Elmore.)

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Is she being turned to stone? (I'm thinking it had to be an Elmore.)

Yeah, after a while pretty much every woman he drew fit that basic description. (I'm sure there were exceptions, but it sure didn't seem that way at the time.)

 

[Fifth Element]

@ Herobizkit: Is this the one you mean? She's the subject of a stone to flesh spell, page 16 of the (Mentzer) Expert Rulebook.

 

[Herobizkit]

Oh my GOD! That's the one! Well done, EnWorlders and to [MENTION=48135]Fifth Element[/MENTION] for posting it!

 

[SSquirrel]

One of my young guilty pleasures was a picture of a curly-haired woman wearing a Viking-esque helmet (without the horns).... I believe she may have been a Cleric, and she was in the Blue Expert series handbook for D&D. For you purists, I don't remember which version, but it was in a box set and I think the Isle of Dread was packaged with it?

Really sounds like the old Elmore art versions of Tika Waylan from the Dragonlance Chronicles book covers.