Post by Malcadon on Dec 3, 2016 22:28:41 GMT
You may not like the art style or races presented, bit *THIS*, is fantasy done right! 
I just want this community to take the time to reflect on the time when 4e came out four years ago, with how the WotC community forum was up and arms about mammaries on Dragonborn females. The tread about it reached well over 60 pages in less than a week, and bleed into other treads. The basic idea is that, as part-human reptilian-people, Dragonborn should not have boobs. Yes, D&D dragons do not have mammary glads themselves, and yet, just like the ass-rape-y Broo of Ruin Quest, they have the ability to knock-up everything and everyone in creation with their hybrid freaks, not matter where they stick it. I can understand this with female Lizardmen and Naga...
ehh...
OK, that last one sounds funny to behold! (where they have tits, but still have not arms)
ehh...? What was I ta...
Oh yeah!
They are not Lizardmen, but dragon/human-hybrids, where they have human biology, and the strange, alien biology of dragons. So yeah...
Scaly tits on a humanoid character should not be all that unusual in what even hardcore D&D players dismiss (regardless of edition) as a "magic elf game."
But it was not about the logic of tits on a bull... I mean Dragonborn. The WotC community forum had such a bug up its ass over preserved sexism in art and fantasy. They look at a picture of Red Sonja and ask "Why is she always fighting in a useless chainmail bikini, while all the guys are covered head-to-toe in metal?" forgetting that she usually fights alongside a naked dude with fur boots and an animal skin banana hammock. They have such an aversion to anything titillating or sexually provocative, while being completely oblivious to (or sheltered form) the vary nature of escapist fantasy. During the Dragonborn Boobgate controversy, they were also bitching about all the artwork with female characters with bare mid-drifts (waist). As in, the popular girl's fashion at the time.
Well, if you guys did not know, that forum closed last year or so. Good residence! The would will not miss it is any way! It can rot in hell!
If it is possible to die from one's own virginity, he'll be the first to find out? 
Had I illustrated the 4e books, it would be over-the-top, with extreme violence and dread, weird occult magic, plenty of uncensored T&A, and armor set on "Beefcake" and "Cheesecake", all with a disclaimer noting that fantasy role-playing is about embracing your Id and running with it, while giving a big middle finger to reality and logic.
I like the 5e rules, but my lament with it is that the art is boring and uninspired. It is just boring-looking people, doing boring-ass things. Spice it up a little, Wizards! Did you guys forgot how to fill hearts with awe and wanderlust?
...or did you guys ever had that sense of wonderment in the first place?
It is so sad that this is no longer the farce of fantasy.
