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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5102942" data-attributes="member: 54846">There's one really easy explanation of &quot;Why x has boobs&quot; in D&amp;D:It lets us determine which is feminine or female and which is not. Long hair, slenderness, that doesn't seem to work with some races/species/whatnot (dwarves aren't slender, most of the men have long hair in braids, elves have long hair and are quite slender, etc). Boobs = It's a girl. Even if it isn't a FEMALE sexual organs, even if it's female in personality, then boobs make sense to telegraph &quot;Hay I'm a girl in my head&quot;. Gettign into the in-game explanation of it all doesn't even matter. Because this is the thought process that goes through the artist trying to depict the entity in question. If they want to differentiate thsi one a female, they give'm boobs.Not more complex than that.And before someone says &quot;Well why would the ARTIST do that?&quot; Well I'm willing to bet that the artist is just told &quot;This is the concept of the race, this is what we're thinking, here's sort of a concept sketch. Draw some more pictures&quot; and the artist just goes to town. I don't think anyone tells the artist &quot;hey, draw boobs&quot; or &quot;Hey don't draw boobs&quot;. If the artist isn't told they don't have females, or the females don't have boobs, I'm willing to bet the artist just draws'm that way to differentiate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 5102942, member: 54846"] There's one really easy explanation of "Why x has boobs" in D&D: It lets us determine which is feminine or female and which is not. Long hair, slenderness, that doesn't seem to work with some races/species/whatnot (dwarves aren't slender, most of the men have long hair in braids, elves have long hair and are quite slender, etc). Boobs = It's a girl. Even if it isn't a FEMALE sexual organs, even if it's female in personality, then boobs make sense to telegraph "Hay I'm a girl in my head". Gettign into the in-game explanation of it all doesn't even matter. Because [B]this is the thought process that goes through the [I]artist[/I][/B] trying to depict the entity in question. If they want to differentiate thsi one a female, they give'm boobs. Not more complex than that. And before someone says "Well why would the ARTIST do that?" Well I'm willing to bet that the artist is just told "This is the concept of the race, this is what we're thinking, here's sort of a concept sketch. Draw some more pictures" and the artist just goes to town. I don't think anyone tells the artist "hey, draw boobs" or "Hey don't draw boobs". If the artist isn't told they don't have females, or the females don't have boobs, I'm willing to bet the artist just draws'm that way to differentiate. [/QUOTE]

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