Dragonlady wrote:Grrrr, I HATE the chainmail bikini outfits. Those things are danged cold, no protection and just an attention getter for guys. :roll
Danged cold? But you shouldn't be wearing them during beach walks in Januari, Dragonlady!
It's amazing in fantasy art, by the way, that
every single female is of the attractive young kind, with supermodel looks and a revealing outfit.
For fun, try to google for female fantasy portraits and see if you find something older with lines in her face, or even just a more fully figured woman.
I tried once and I didn't find any!
You would think that at least one artist would have gone, 'Okay, I know how every single depiction of a female in fantasy looks the same right now, but it's getting boring, I'm going to do something different.'
What amazes me most is that people that are involved in a genre called fantasy seem to have so little imagination themselves. Games are the worst, those game worlds are always full of the same cliches about dwarves, elves, etc.
Basiliskwrangler doesn't do a bad job, though. The Boreheads and Sentinel Stalks in Book II I didn't come across before and I thought they were excellent creations. Too often it is being said that Eschalon is just recycling old concepts. This is true for most of its content, but please don't overlook all those examples of originality.
A creature that I was thinking about as well, inspired by Donleon when he was asking what a 'caterpilar' was, is to have a caterpilar unit in the game, an innocent enough piece of vermin in itself, but with a certain percentage of chance to turn into a vicious, bloodthirsty insect when hit...