Who Else Thinks This Chick is Hot?

[Corinth]

Or they're HEROES.

That's not a rebuttal. Being a hero doesn't excuse you from acquiring the necessary traits and features needed to become competent at your profession, maintaining them while in use and improving them when opportunity allows.

Redhead: "What? I'm sorry, were you saying something? What do you want? I've got a necromancer to slay. This sword? You're afraid I'll hurt myself! Hehe, you're silly, this sword can't hurt me! But you...I guess I could see why you're scared, hehehe!"

Not impressed. Disbelief. Not hired. Blackballed.

Blonde: "You've got a problem with my heels? Typical. I wear these to improve my stance. It's not really a challenge to keep standing on the ground against attacks from creatures twice your size anymore. These will strengthen my ankles, my calves, and keep me on my toes, so to speak. Maybe you wouldn't wear these, but maybe you'd just die if a giant brought down a tree-sized club on your head as hard as it could, too. I wouldn't."

BS. High heels are known to be detrimental to effective maneuver in combat; that's why real combatants don't wear them in fights. (And no, citing movies or similar fiction doesn't count.)

Elfy guy: "Oh WOW! Hey guys, it's a dagger! People still use these things in combat? Hahahaha, wow, is this even sharp? I guess...but....hehe, how quaint!"

Obvious liar, probable psychotic. Compelled civil commitment, not hired for the dangerous work that adventuring commonly deals with, is the result.

D&D PCs--in actual play--are far closer to professional soldiers, spies and criminals than comic book or blockbuster action heroes. Figures that don't conform to the known standard traits and features required to successfully achieve that status--especially the specifics of a given specific profession--fail to create credible fictions; this is why reality trumps fantasy, why truth is stranger than fiction, and why verisimilitude matters at all times in all things.

 

[Voadam]

Not just thin, but the way the body shape "flows". She is actually an example I might use of the appearance a disguise self spell might give a serpent-man. A normal onlooker sees thin girl. Someone good at spotting notices the measurements are slightly outside of human norms and the torso is almost too sleek.

Good use of the picture.

 

[blargney the second]

D&D PCs--in actual play--are far closer to professional soldiers, spies and criminals than comic book or blockbuster action heroes.

Then I've got a few characters that obviously don't exist. Wait a minute...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Now that's disgusting, and I mean that.

Agreed. Thats just a little too nasty.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Not impressed. Disbelief. Not hired. Blackballed.

Well, there ya go. Heroes require imagination. If you're first reaction is "no, I don't believe it!" then...well...good luck dragonslaying without believing in them because they are impossible creatures.

D&D PCs--in actual play--are far closer to professional soldiers, spies and criminals than comic book or blockbuster action heroes.

For you, maybe. But you're whe one who doesn't believe in heroes or dragons or fairies or crazy fantasy fashion.

Figures that don't conform to the known standard traits and features required to successfully achieve that status--especially the specifics of a given specific profession--fail to create credible fictions; this is why reality trumps fantasy, why truth is stranger than fiction, and why verisimilitude matters at all times in all things.

For you, maybe. But I'm not about to go up to Achilles and say "A human being couldn't possibly be completely invulnerable in the flesh everywhere, and a single cut to the heel couldn't kill anyone!"

'cuz the man's a frikkin' HERO.

 

[Doug McCrae]

The real deal dresses practically, is in good shape for their class, and has no time for dramatic poses of any kind because--if they're any good at all--they're professionals (in effect, if not in fact) performing dangerous work. Fashion models need not apply.

This is what a real adventurer looks like.

 

[Klaus]

Well I see somebody has played Saga of Ryzom.

Huh?

Ya lost me there, buddy.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

This is what a real adventurer looks like.

I protest, this is what a real adventurer looks like:

 

[Jeysie]

"She's too thin"
"She's too fat"

Someone doesn't like competition!

*laughs* Actually, that was more of a pre-emptive comment... as in, I thought someone might make a similar observation, so I beat them to it. Apparently I sit corrected.

I personally don't have anything wrong with the druid picture... a woman *should* have a bit of a belly. A flat stomach is so unfeminine, IMHO.

(And, pfft, I wouldn't stand a chance in a competition anyway. I'm more than just a bit chubby, myself.)

Peace & Luv, Liz

 

[Jdvn1]

http://wizards.com/dnd/images/DrowUnderdark_Gallery/104488.jpg
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/DrowUnderdark_Gallery/104486.jpg

How are those?