First Look, Female Dwarf Hero Concept Art

[Daedalus]

...And for God's sake don't even consider a beard. That is a bad joke that needs to go away forever.

While I understand adding a beard to a figure will probably make it just plain unappealing as a Hero, the idea that dwarf females are bearded is debatable by Tolkien fans (as distiguished from those who have just seen the movies). Gimli talks about this on p.360 in Appendix A of The Return of the King: "...They are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart." Beards are part of the appearance of all dwarf-men, and since dwarf-women are so like to them in appearance as to be nearly indistinguishable, they must have beards.

Peter Jackson has even included some bearded dwarf-women in his Hobbit film. They are hard to catch, but that's what Goolgle Image is for. Jackson was forced to account for family markets not being able to accept strange gender expressions, so he relegated bearded dwarf-women to a joke and some hard-to-notice glimpses in the destruction of Erebor. Tolkien was not so constrained, so for Tolkien fans and those influenced by his seminal works dwarf-women have beards, and dwarf-men like it. Human preferences for feminimity are set aside by those who accept his vision.

[Daedalus]

I see a tiny little cleavage there to expand on. Way to go, CP!

That tiny little sliver, to me, was nothing but potential.

I want to be able to play Hero Quest with my daughter one day, and I'm sure she'd prefer female figures. If you go overboard to please the geeks, you lose possible girlfriend and family players. I'd say the best guide is to not depart from the aestetics of the female Barbarian and female Elf figures.

[chaoticprime]

Sex and nudity are not the same thing.

[Jewels!]

Strong is sexy, just sayin' You don't need E-cups spilling out the top of a skimpy corset to convey sexiness.













Unless you're a succubus, but that's another story.

[chaoticprime]

Strong is sexy, just sayin' You don't need E-cups spilling out the top of a skimpy corset to convey sexiness.
Unless you're a succubus, but that's another story.

That is not my intention--D cups, will more than suffice. I think it is rather dutiful to endow the female Wizard. Heroquest aggregates most popular medieval fantasy within its designs. The first two things about nearly every female magic-user you'll find are that they know magic, and they have ample breasts (partially on display due to their ludicrous outfits).

Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's any logic greater than just that at work. Hell, for my indie-RPG, one of my characters is a satire of that very trope. What kind of self-respecting female magic-user dresses that way? One that does not have any self-respect. Everyone, meet Justine:

That is NOT the concept art for the female Wizard.

As an aside, here is my totally kickass "Western" game cover (the game is a retro-clone NES RPG, so I had a cover made up that barely resembles the actual game or characters--just like most NES RPGs).

[Jewels!]

That is not my intention--D cups, will more than suffice.

Exactly.

I think it is rather dutiful to endow the female Wizard. Heroquest aggregates most popular medieval fantasy within its designs. The first two things about nearly every female magic-user you'll find are that they know magic, and they have ample breasts (partially on display due to their ludicrous outfits).

Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's any logic greater than just that at work. Hell, for my indie-RPG, one of my characters is a satire of that very trope. What kind of self-respecting female magic-user dresses that way? One that does not have any self-respect. Everyone, meet Justine:

That is NOT the concept art for the female Wizard.

Justine MUST be the female wizard.

[chaoticprime]

Here's the full gallery of her misc in-game art. http://s619.photobucket.com/user/chaoti ... t=3&page=1

[Sjeng]

...Unless you're a succubus, but that's another story.

Justine MUST be the female wizard.

I like how you think xD

But yeah, getting more than enough sexy females from Reaper's Bones, so lets keep HQ child friendly

[wolfie907]

Just use this - It's basically the same costume

You'd like the video game I'm making.

Not Safe For Work: http://i619.photobucket.com/albums/tt27 ... 11159e.png & http://i619.photobucket.com/albums/tt27 ... 380625.png

The last boss has similar conventions, too.

what was the name of the cartoon this came from

[Jewels!]

As an aside, here is my totally kickass "Western" game cover (the game is a retro-clone NES RPG, so I had a cover made up that barely resembles the actual game or characters--just like most NES RPGs).

Retro-clone, as in they made a cartridge game for the NES?