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 Dreamchild wrote:

 Karak Norn Clansman wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
You’ve heard of recurve bow? Here is tricurve bow. Is better. Is 50% more curve. Horn and sinew is good for bow; better is horn, sinew, and magic bear snot. Bow is shoot the arrow good.

See arctic cable-backed bows: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable-backed_bow

Yeah, only these are obviously unstrung. If the gals in question end up having proper Hunnic/Tatar/Turkic bows I'd be over the roof, but as things are they visually are the closest to compound bows with no compound elements - with those two usleless spiky things added with no practical or aesthetic value.

You can see the strings in the picture...


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 vipoid wrote:

I'll be honest, I'm also not a fan of the clothes. The top right image doesn't look too bad, but masks shown in the full picture and middle-right look very strange. Maybe it's just the art but they come across as being far too thin for winter clothes. If anything, they look more like some sort of ice-burkas. Also, apparently a benefit of being a Royal Guard is that you can accumulate an ungodly number of belts and straps. Seriously, imagine having to fasten and tighten all those straps, in freezing weather and whilst wearing mittens.

TL: DR I'm not opposed to the basic concept but the execution seems rather janky. Still, I appreciate that this is just concept art, so hopefully most of these issues will be amended before production.

I think those are supposed to be veils. At least that's the first impression I got from them.

There's a few issues with the whole fantastic ideas and increased 'unique' playable species.

1. How often they turn up is on the Story teller of a given world, and running into a few bunny girl fighters in an adventurer tavern doesn't make them common.

2. Even if said BGFs are common, it just means they aren't the fantastic part of the fantastic journey.

A real world look at these though. By the late 1880/90s most large American cities had a Chinatown neighborhood. Chinese Americans were part of the American culture by that point.

How many people, those in those cities, were likely to actually encounter one of these people? For a good long part of US history, communities, even inside a larger urban area could be very insular. You *might* see a Chinese American walking down the street every now and then, but the odds are you wouldn't stop to talk to them.

Then remember, until the mid 1930's, most of the US population was rural. With most Chinese Americans living in cities, how many farmboys would ever actually meet one?

This now brings up fiction. We know Chinese Americans were part of society. But they were still mysterious to most Americans that entire subsections of fiction were about the goings on of their lives and neighborhoods. Places of mystery (even as the real life was just mundane with accents), where all types of adventure lurked, and mystical and magical things abounded.

Cronch wrote:

 Mmmpi wrote:
There's a few issues with the whole fantastic ideas and increased 'unique' playable species.

1. How often they turn up is on the Story teller of a given world, and running into a few bunny girl fighters in an adventurer tavern doesn't make them common.

2. Even if said BGFs are common, it just means they aren't the fantastic part of the fantastic journey.

A real world look at these though. By the late 1880/90s most large American cities had a Chinatown neighborhood. Chinese Americans were part of the American culture by that point.

How many people, those in those cities, were likely to actually encounter one of these people? For a good long part of US history, communities, even inside a larger urban area could be very insular. You *might* see a Chinese American walking down the street every now and then, but the odds are you wouldn't stop to talk to them.

Then remember, until the mid 1930's, most of the US population was rural. With most Chinese Americans living in cities, how many farmboys would ever actually meet one?

This now brings up fiction. We know Chinese Americans were part of society. But they were still mysterious to most Americans that entire subsections of fiction were about the goings on of their lives and neighborhoods. Places of mystery (even as the real life was just mundane with accents), where all types of adventure lurked, and mystical and magical things abounded.

The problem is you assume that the Empire/America in this example is the norm. It's very much the exception to a globe full of wizards, lizards, dinosaurs, demons and tiger-people. Franz the kraut-herder is the exotic non-magical creature of fables, not the elven wizard riding a dragon.

I'm not assuming America is the norm. You can see the same thing throughout history for longer than writing has existed. I just used an example that I felt should be familiar to most readers here. I could easily have talked about merchants quarters in Sumar, Jewish Quarters in hundreds of cities across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, and so on.