Point of order, have you seen the thread requesting the Nemedian Knight outfit?
This one would say that requests for comprehensive outfits and armours runs fairly strong in the race with calls for banana hammocks and leotards.
The question may be what is concordant with the genre.
Sword and Sorcery has room for fully functional and fully covering attire as much as it does metallic lingerie and fur trimmed negligees.
This one thinks the only thing not seriously and regularly requested is modern suits and power armour.
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As for fat = physical fail…
This one is both old and fat.
As was previously noted, most power lifters fall into categories that the casual observer may call obese.
Further, this one routinely takes treks of a dozen kilometers across uneven terrain, rock climbs (and yes, the gut does make climbing more of a challenge, no falsehood there, but not having any real upper body strength or general endurance is probably a worse impediment, based on all the bean poles that go to ground in the local training areas), and will still put most of the pups on their fourth point of contact when we get to have HEMA events, whether thru skill or endurance in armour. Being a life long uggo, this one has frequently had the pleasure of performing amateur dentistry on those who mistake stocky for soft. It’s a misconception that should be beaten out of those spewing it at every opportunity.
Moving along, the level of dehydration required for extreme definition is hilarious… but possibly accurate for being left out in the dessert for awhile… and by the way, Liver King lied, he was on PEDs, lots of PEDs, that’s not the natty body type. Which is a shame, because his “Ancestral Tenets” are generally quite solid, but that’s another rant.
Fat comes in two varieties, and they are not the same. Brown fat vs white fat is a distinction more basic health and fitness classes should teach. Especially in cold climates, that brown fat is fundamental, without it, pre-modern accomodations are going to suck.
But none of that matters, because this game is set in make believe mytho-history, not in our own time and place. There are clucking bat demons airlifting worshippers of a giant snake that also sponsors literal giants who enslaved human refugees (lead by a sorceress queen) using a magical shock fence that doubles as a universal translator. There is a tundra less than a day’s walk from tropical coast line. Let’s not even touch on how everyone summoned via surge on Siptah sticks a standing landing at hundreds of yards freefalling…
This is Sword and Sorcery flavoured Bizarro World.
But it does have some internal consistency. Or rather, canon lore laid out by R.E. Howard.
With most people agreeing that Frank Frazetta captured the aesthetic… or do they?
Quick aside, yay or nay, did Frank Frazetta captured the aesthetic? This one is extremely curious about people’s thoughts on the matter. What artistic style one imagines for this (low) fantasy genre will help this one understand what informs people’s expectations of the setting and it’s inhabitants.
. Art is indeed the best form of speech freedom!
Controlling the culture and art through funding is common place since the end of WW2, even prior to that deppending on where we’re talking. It’s a soft form of censorship, obviously.
