http://mattrhodesart...age/59901442313
So apparently, she's a dwarf Inquisitor. Is it just me, or have dwarves gotten taller? Maybe too tall? I'm of two minds. It's certainly making playng a dwarf more interesting to me as I find it difficult to play a character who's so short, but I still think dwarves ought to be slightly shorter than what it looks like in that concept art.
What do you guys think? Good, bad, doesn't matter?
Dwarf Height
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Potato Cat
, sept. 02 2013 07:22
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 07:28
Face of Evil
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The proof is in the pudding. Concept art is just that: concept art.
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 07:29
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Actually their height in the concept art is accurate to DAO. I just briefly logged on and compared Zevran to a random female commoner in Orzammar. =)
Modifié par Secretlyapotato, 02 septembre 2013 - 07:31 .
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 07:31
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I thought Varric seemed awfully tall in the gameplay demo, but it might have just been in my head. Especially at the beginning, but it could have just been the angle as well.
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 07:32
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Yeah, the elves in DAO were about a head shorter than the humans, and the dwarves a head shorter than the elves - looks the same to me. 
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 07:34
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Yeah she looks way too tall in the concept art to me assuming women are shorter than men that is.
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 07:38
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It's not so much in comparison to the elf, that's about right I would say, it's that she doesn't look recognisably dwarven from what we've seen in DAO. Her body seems quite stretched, for lack of a better word.
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 07:39
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Maybe Elves have gone back to their DA:O height? Because they were really very short there, and we don't have much else to compare.
edit: Female dwarves are likely relatively skinny so that they're more conventionally pretty
edit: Female dwarves are likely relatively skinny so that they're more conventionally pretty
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 07:43
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Elfman wrote...
It's not so much in comparison to the elf, that's about right I would say, it's that she doesn't look recognisably dwarven from what we've seen in DAO. Her body seems quite stretched, for lack of a better word.
I got that feeling when I was looking at those grey face models they showed us as well.
http://dragonage.wik...aces_models.png
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 08:00
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Yeah I would not worry to much just from some concept art. But I do agree that Dwarf seems a tad to large.
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 08:14
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Do note that she's standing on some kind of rock outcropping. Her feet are up higher than those of the elf she's near.
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 08:22
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Elfman wrote...
It's certainly making playng a dwarf more interesting to me as I find it difficult to play a character who's so short....
Why is that a problem?
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 08:29
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Scarlet Rabbi wrote...
Elfman wrote...
It's certainly making playng a dwarf more interesting to me as I find it difficult to play a character who's so short....
Why is that a problem?
Two sort of reasons that I think make one good enough reason. One, I myself am just below average height, so the elf height is just right for me, not too short, not too tall. And I find height differences hilarious, which could really ruin some emotional scenes. I remember the last episode of the Walking Dead game where I kept changing from uncontrollable sobbing to hysterical laughter because Omid was so short. It still makes me laugh. And secondly I feel bad for the characters, my dwarf is always craning their neck up to talk to the important NPCs and important NPCs are always looking down at the floor. It's even worse when they have big bulky armour and look like they can't even see their feet as a result. So yeah, it's my moral responsibility to not be that short I feel.
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 08:37
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Wulfram wrote...
Maybe Elves have gone back to their DA:O height? Because they were really very short there, and we don't have much else to compare.
Hoping for this.
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 08:38
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I assumed she was a dwarf the first time I saw that picture... She's too broad in the chest to be human. From a proportion stand point, I think she looks less squat than previous dwarves though. And I'm fine with that, personally.
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 08:39
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I hope dwarves are really short and one being a romance option so my female Qunari Inquisitor can have a romance with an adorable height difference.
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Posté 02 septembre 2013 - 08:39
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Scarlet Rabbi wrote...
Elfman wrote...
It's certainly making playng a dwarf more interesting to me as I find it difficult to play a character who's so short....
Why is that a problem?
I don't know about Elfman but I prefer playing a female in the shorter races due to my own outdated stereotypes. I have a problem playing a male PC with a LI he can look up to (literally.) I realize that my own thinking is sexist. Why should a man always have to be taller than the woman he's with? I can think of 2 examples of people who have successful LTRs with a shorter man and taller woman. And what of the ss relationships I know? Should the partners be the same height, then? My own thinking is obviously flawed.
