The inner sea world guide states that half-elves 'never seem to put on weight no matter what they eat'. Isn't that more of a full-blooded elf thing? It's always irked me that Jane Doe the half-elf can keep pounding back that cheesecake and not gain a pound while her elven mother has one slice and get's as big as Mammy Graul. Do elves have the same strange metabolism and it just isn't mentioned? Or does the combining of elves, the thinnest core race, and humans, the fattest core race (if modern North America is any indication) somehow create the super model god gene?
I don't think I've ever seen obese, or even non-thin full Elves depicted in D&D art.
I would assume it's a shared trait with elves. Elves just are so wierd with their alien eyes that nobody thinks to mention that jealousy-inducing fact, because jealously depends on being able to identify with the person in the first place, just like you aren't JEALOUS of butterfly's beautiful wings.
Dwarves are probably the fattest Core race, if 'stocky' counts as fat.
Humans and Halflings are about equally prone to obesity though AFAIK.
Dwarves are just big boned! (Perhaps literally) Sure, their leg bones aren't as long, but other than that...
And I'd say that I've never seen an obese (by human standards) elf either so it might just be assumed to the point of not bearing mention.
So I can actually make a Bloatmage that does NOT look like the world's most unmajestic whale? Awesome!!
Granted they're Drow (they still count as elves in my book), but there were two pictures of rather overweight drow in Second Darkness #4: Endless Night, one in the foreword and Orvignato on page 42.
What'dya say ta them apples?
Going back... the 2nd edition of the AD&D Players guide had a full page illustration of an elf king that had a double chin IIRC
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2nd edition PHB - page 110 - not sure which printing but it was the one with the cavalier charging on a horse for a cover. Had to search quite a bit to find it.
Apparently later printings cut back on the full color/full page illustrations quite a bit - which is a shame - honestly that was my favorite TSR book, much due to the awesome art.
Also, it's far from unheard of to describe a real human being as 'they never seem to put on weight no matter what they eat'. perhaps the drow diet is different from normal elves to explain?
certainly, drow ARE seriously different enough from elves in other ways, that it's not stretching it to apply here.
Going back... the 2nd edition of the AD&D Players guide had a full page illustration of an elf king that had a double chin IIRC*edit*
2nd edition PHB - page 110 - not sure which printing but it was the one with the cavalier charging on a horse for a cover. Had to search quite a bit to find it.
Apparently later printings cut back on the full color/full page illustrations quite a bit - which is a shame - honestly that was my favorite TSR book, much due to the awesome art.
And oddly enough WotC is going to reprint the 2E core books just as they did the 1E books...
Granted they're Drow (they still count as elves in my book), but there were two pictures of rather overweight drow in Second Darkness #4: Endless Night, one in the foreword and Orvignato on page 42.
What'dya say ta them apples?
That maybe your book isn't Paizo's book?