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

[ExploderWizard]

Magazines and movies throw 'hot chicks' at us because they create a sense of urgency. These media are well-suited to offering further immediate rewards. Unless your blog follows up with explosions, news that ain't available elsewhere or loads more babes, all you generate is a sense of frustration.

Otherwise, I can only assume that you don't give a fig about how women are represented in RPGs.

Well, some of us just enjoy good artwork as simply that. There is no sense of frustration as long as one does not expect fantasy rpg art to provide some sort of um...........fulfillment, that you believe it fails to deliver.

 

[MarkB]

Google-image-searching "hot elf chick" out of curiosity is definitely NSFW, but it does amuse me that Legolas appears twice within the first two lines of thumbnails.

 

[Dioltach]

Aah, Aleena! You know, even 26 years down the road, and even though I know better, I still find myself hoping that she doesn't die in that introductory adventure.

 

[TerraDave]

Getting back to topic, assuming there is one, was the "hot elf chick" common before 1980? Were alluring elves used specifically in gaming products? Or is this really one of the first?

 

[nedjer]

Well, some of us just enjoy good artwork as simply that. There is no sense of frustration as long as one does not expect fantasy rpg art to provide some sort of um...........fulfillment, that you believe it fails to deliver.

The representation of women maybe has more immediacy for me, as my work involves reading reports on children and young women. These have involved asylum seekers from the Congo subjected to gang rape; girls brought to Glasgow from Poland and made to spend their evenings selling 'favours' in suburban back lanes, and kids sold for their mum's next bag of heroin.

The notion that we're in immediate control of our actions and can separate out one distinct impulse from those around it is what we're told in day to day life. However, the science is quite clear, much of what we consider the 'here and now' is a multimedia playback of decisions made some time before, on the basis of a mass of subconscious considerations.

Good art wtf? I'd assumed a couple of falling mangoes had been drawn into the scene.

 

[nedjer]

Getting back to topic, assuming there is one, was the "hot elf chick" common before 1980? Were alluring elves used specifically in gaming products? Or is this really one of the first?

OK. I apologise for the thread overkill. Fully accept you meant no harm. I'll go give myself a week's forum ban in a minute.

Please resume . . .

 

[havard]

What great illios. What spell manifests as a cool hawk-head anyhow?!

And lest we start an edition war:

I'm in love!

I can't say enough great things about Aleena, but given the actual topic of the thread, I will have to admit that she is no elf.

-Havard

 

[Herobizkit]

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?

 

[Filcher]

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?

I went digging through the basic, expert and companion sets, but I couldn't find her ... it seems familiar, but?

 

[Herobizkit]

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...