Comments on: Boobies?

By: yunk

yunk — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:06:51 +0000

This is appropo:

By: Nero

Nero — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:36:32 +0000

Boobies sell. Especially to forth additions target demographic. I would bet that WotC is also trying to make things as aesthetically pleasing as possible to help facilitate the sale of their IP to game developers.

Maybe I’m just cynical.

By: Sara Pickell

Sara Pickell — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:36:58 +0000

Why does a dragonborn only have 2 arms and 2 legs when they are presumably descended from a six limbed creature? Why wouldn’t they be hunched over with stronger arms allowing for both tool use and significantly greater upper body strength?

To make them seem “proud”, to make sure they aren’t too “alien” for people to identify with. Gender is a strange thing in humanity and modern culture has lived in deep denial of that simple fact for a very long time. Why should our fantasies create a deep and varied model of gender when we refuse to accept the depth and variations in real world gender? Why upgrade to 3D when your audience hasn’t entirely grasped the concept of one dimension?

By: Shiro

Shiro — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:24:03 +0000

I happen to like forsaken breastesses!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:31:18 +0000

@syncaine: Silicone takes longer to decay than flesh :p

By: Ravious

Ravious — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:41:23 +0000

@syncaine: in WoW they sag a little.

By: Boob Man? | NecroRogIcon

Boob Man? | NecroRogIcon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:39:28 +0000

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By: Regis

Regis — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:37:34 +0000

I knew I was better sticking with 3.5 :)

Looking at this picture
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/RacesNClasses_Gallery/111128.jpg
I would say that she definitely look female, and would even without the breasts. Males can have horns and more raised “hair”, while the females have it more flat like in the picture. Breasts are over the top.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:20:09 +0000

I blame Boris Vallejo.

By: Rog

Rog — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:11:02 +0000

I’ve always kind of assumed that anthropomorphism adopts a variety of humanistic (or hyper-humanistic in some of these cases) features, not just standing upright or facial expressiveness.

In a game, that goes even further, beyond the furries I’d say. We have certain expectations of our genders and I’d think most players would like those expressed in human-like ways regardless of racial choice.

In other words, I don’t think too many people want to RP a cat, they just want to immerse a little in a human with cat-like features.

This is what a human RP’ing as a cat would actually be like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzcB1RYsDAY