New Art for default DC

[Uatu]

I like hobbit-ish halflings Buff, eh? Kind of like Sam?

Female druids sound nice (kind of like PETA girls?)...

Make sure you give those gnomes really big gnoses!

[manikus]

I think I'll probably go the hobbitish route. Buff would be wrong - I was picture a pint-sized Conan the Barbarian with hairy-feet.

Mmmmm, pita bread.

Gnomes with big noses, big ears and small chins. shorter than dwarves, but with the same armspan. Skinny little buggers that can slip away into the shadows.

[Uatu]

The same armspan?! Gee, gnomes must be pretty wide, since dwarves are pretty wide already, too!

[manikus]

There not wide, they just have longer arms.

I recall reading somewhere an article about the different body types in AD&D. Compared to typical human ratios, dwarves' arms were only 85 to 90% as long, halfings were 90 to 95%, elves were at 100 to 105% and gnomes were 105 to 110% So...if a typical 6 foot tall human has a 6 foot armspan, a typical 4 foot tall dwarf would have a 3'6" to 3'9" armspan and so would a typical 3 foot tall gnome.

Or as Lisa Simpson said, "Like, you know....whatever."

[Uatu]

Really? Do you remember the source to that? (The various companies who owned D&D changed things from time to time, I think...)

I guess it would sort of make sense, but dwarves would have really stubby arms as a result...

[manikus]

I don't recall off the top of my head, but I will try and find it this weekend.

I've never really thought about how it must be for them, as it would be like my arms being 3 to 5 inches shorter (each). I could still function, but I wouldn't be able to reach a lot of things. I'll think about this tonight.

[SilentThief]

Originally Posted by manikus Thanks Lord Killjoy (back in the day) was doing the same thing, but his graphics were more character study than scene. Perhaps, with some prodding, SilentThief will start to use Studio to give us some 3D art...

Oh, for the love of a computer I only have for playing on. Unfortunately, B4 I can take this on I have to get a play computer becuz I saw the size of the manual alone, and that was a huge stack of paper printed out. Not to mention the fact that I cannot load up the laptop with stuff to play with. However, as I am now working I can devote a portion to the "toys" fund. A laptop or desktop for $150 is not out of the question and it might even be a better machine than this laptop. So this is still labelled "in the works"

Originally Posted by Dinonykos Although we talk about fantasy, considering the evolutionary aspect I would state that some hominide species should have females with beards. Uatu is probably right that there is a psychological barrier preventing us from imagining bearded woman. Fantasy artists (at least the well-known) generally tend to draw beautiful women rather than ugly (just look at Uatu's and Manikus' character pics ). Thus the (probably repulsive) bearded female dwarf is seldom depicted.

Yeah, and I've never seen a obese Elf. I thought about having one in a mod that was humorous in design, but I really haven't done even the first steps of making this idea into a mod.

Originally Posted by manikus I think I'll probably go the hobbitish route. Buff would be wrong - I was picture a pint-sized Conan the Barbarian with hairy-feet.

THAT would make an awesome pic LOL

SilentThief

[Uatu]

Ha ha - you're right, I've never seen an obese elf, either!

(For fun, maybe I will create a new spell for my AD&D campaign (Level 3: Obesity) to use against elves...)

[manikus]

You should check out Craigslist. You can pretty regularly find pentium 4 desktops running at 1 ghz with decent hard drives and ram for under $50 (or at least you can in Portland).

I never bothered to read the manual, and have only used it as a reference work. This certainly saved me from printing a couple hundred pages.

[manikus]

I haven't been working on gnomes or halflings, but I did finish the icon for #10. Since I'm keeping all of the new icons under wraps for now, I guess I'd better show you something else.

For your viewing pleasure, I present to you #9, #11 and #12.