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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonbait" data-source="post: 4723541" data-attributes="member: 29182">It might be interesting to RP a 1st level character who starts off fat and looses weight as time progresses (what with all the running, screaming, pain, and moving obnoxiously heavy objects). Most people tend to create the one image of their character and not change it.While we are talking about the realities of being athletic due to the adventuring life and/or if its done to make each race attractive (if possible): The races have MODERN builds. If you are going for a quasi-realistic setting the PCs would never have the musculature of the characters in the PHB. Those builds presented in the books come from a specific routine of weight lifting and cardiovascular exercise that did not exist 50 years ago let alone in ye days of old. Look at the body builders, weight lifters, and runners of the 40's compared to now (they often lack the stellar abs of modern athletes, for instance). Many of the athletic D&D characters would typically be barrel-chested with a layer of meat over most of their muscles.If you search the interwebs about the sexual and racial dimorphism in the WoW races, you'll find that the original versions of the females of the Horde races looked much more like their male counterparts. There were so many complaints that their female Horde characters were just not sexy enough that Blizzard tried their darndest to make them more attractive and still keep them vaguely similar to the males. One can only go so far, though, and some will never be satisfied unless all characters look like elves.</blockquote>

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