chubby and fat avatars, why are companies against them?

[Energizers]

I really wanted to make a handsome big belly Bard that spreads joy throughout BG, but having 2 body type in the game looks ridiculous either slim or gym shredded warlords are unrealistic in a D&D like game, make more bodytypes.

[Yagger]

Originally posted by Energizers:

Originally posted by Sstrayz:

Good, its not a healthy option...

Being chubby is the picture of health, mental and physical, its just Holywood culture says otherwise.

factually wrong

[Energizers]

Originally posted by ALMSIVI:

Start a hashtag activist campaign until they add it: #FatphobicLarian #EndFatphobiaInDnD

Lmao, that would be funny, I just want my bard drummer of the lore to be like me.

[Bubba's Bae]

The game was not made as Skyrim! Skyrim had no cutscenes with your actual characters, and cutscenes shows your characters sometimes touching each other. If they let you too choose any bodytime with sliders, the cutscenes will be impossible to optizime for any bodysize, their body parts will clip thourgh and so on... people don't understand most story cutscenes were recorded with actors. It is why they only let you to choose from 4 body types, because after they were recorded they had to optimalize the body types between these 4 body types.

[Energizers]

Originally posted by Ebony witch:

The game was not made as Skyrim! Skyrim had no cutscenes with your actual characters, and cutscenes shows your characters sometimes touching each other. If they let you too choose any bodytime with sliders, the cutscenes will be impossible to optizime for any bodysize, their body parts will clip thourgh and so on... people don't understand most story cutscenes were recorded with actors. It is why they only let you to choose from 4 body types, because after they were recorded they had to optimalize the body types between these 4 body types.

I fully understand, and I have no problem with the game as it is, its just a wish, it would be awesome for me, and like-minded people, we could atleast had some varied NPCs, kid NPC exist and they have a special exoskeleton, I think the game cutscenes can handle body typen 5 and 6 really, it's not like they were set in stone.

[Snefru]

I was disappointed I couldn’t make my short chubby girl. Give us sliders and more options. Life is full of different people.

[Yogofu]

Because its hard to make Chubby chars work in systems like DnD 5e. You would have to get penalties on Stats like Movement Speed, Jump Distance, Carry Capacity, Dexterity and Constitution. Then people would complain about these negatives or people would complain these penalties dont exist.

[kotchorama]

Originally posted by Arlen639:

Because only few want to look at fat, ugly, androgynous avatars for hours at a time. If people wanted to see that, they would just look outside or in a mirror. If the Druid class was not soo dominantly overpowered in Diablo 4, no one would play it.

This guy said it best.

I'd add, "Fat" and "handsome" go together about as much as "nun" and "Assassin". And, let's be real: Statistically, fat is NOT attractive. I think the world will cave for LGBTQ but fat will always be unattractive.

Just cause WE (OP and I) find fatties attractive, doesn't mean the world does.

[ChalkStorm]

fat people eat up too much RAM

[Butcher]

Originally posted by k0tchorama:

Originally posted by Arlen639:

Because only few want to look at fat, ugly, androgynous avatars for hours at a time. If people wanted to see that, they would just look outside or in a mirror. If the Druid class was not soo dominantly overpowered in Diablo 4, no one would play it.

This guy said it best.

I'd add, "Fat" and "handsome" go together about as much as "nun" and "Assassin". And, let's be real: Statistically, fat is NOT attractive. I think the world will cave for LGBTQ but fat will always be unattractive.

Just cause WE (OP and I) find fatties attractive, doesn't mean the world does.

Nun and assasin goes rather well though? I think Hitman could dress like a nun to enter restricted areas.

Fat could be attractive if it doesn't affect your face too much. Here, I said it first. Fat is only unattractive if it leads to 2 chins, hanging cheeks, fat skin around eyes and other deformities of that sort.

[Astrospud]

Given the amount of physical exercise (fighting, running over long distances, jumping ludicrous distances...), if an adventurer were to start from a more pudgy form, they would quickly lose that excess weight.

Now, if you remove all the magical elements from the game, you would have essentially a medieval themed game. And historically speaking, those who were not landed gentry or traders would have had to live a subsistence life, growing their own food, far removed from the riches of a nobles banquet hall. They would have more than likely a marginally higher caloric intake that expended in their daily workloads.

Famously, English king Henry VIII packed on a lot of weight after his tournament injuries rendered him unable to pursue his former active lifestyle. He ate rich foods and his caloric intake well overtook his physical activity. Thus he became obese.

Now back to the game, I can understand that folks want to create a character that reflects who they are as a person. But, for the most part, we live pretty sedentary lives, and our food intake is wildly different to the natural diet that medieval folk consumed.

Yes, it's a fantasy world where we should be able to be who we want to be.
But as some have stated before, the mesh geometry would be too difficult to model an infinitely variable types of armour and costumes to cater for those body types.

[Catsim]

Originally posted by Energizers:

What i want is simply the sims body types, they exist and they are fun,

BG3 is not The Sims. BG3 characters don't disappear under the covers to WooHoo. Larian wanted to make cutscenes that wouldn't get clowned on for everyone clipping through each other. So you can go right ahead and wait for somebody to mod in more body types that don't care about armor clipping or animation quality, but Larian isn't going to put that stuff in the official release.

[Energizers]

Originally posted by Catsim:

Originally posted by Energizers:

What i want is simply the sims body types, they exist and they are fun,

BG3 is not The Sims. BG3 characters don't disappear under the covers to WooHoo. Larian wanted to make cutscenes that wouldn't get clowned on for everyone clipping through each other. So you can go right ahead and wait for somebody to mod in more body types that don't care about armor clipping or animation quality, but Larian isn't going to put that stuff in the official release.

They can factor in bodytypes, its not rocket science, soon, we will see Modders bringing us glorious mods.

[Chaos]

Lol even in skyrim fat body type is still ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the mesh and a pain to make it work even with a rather robust kits, so wouldn't expect too much if I were you.

[Draeka3]

I'd like a slider but not just for that...
Be it face shape, height (of course with a limit, not a 2.5m dwarf or 0.4m half orc).
Kind of like Code Vein, TES, Fallout, Dark Souls... for instance.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Originally posted by ButtLord:

I know, crazy that there are more dong options than body type options

Priorities, friend.