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== Tabletop Games == |
== Tabletop Games == |
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** The supplement ''Elder Evils'' has an inversion with the Hulks of Zoretha. The four female hulks resemble bulky, stony giants of no discernible gender. On the other hand the singular male, while roughly the same twenty feet in height as the female hulks, appears as a slender and beautiful winged humanoid if awakened. |
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** Medusas, [[Gorgeous Gorgon|unsurprisingly]], [[Zig-Zagging Trope|zigzag]] depending on the edition. Those in 1st edition were horribly ugly, 2nd edition made them very comely if you could look past the snake hair (without being [[Taken for Granite]]), 3rd edition kept the comely bodies but the effect was somewhat marred by the scales [[Butter Face|and a face that looked like a cross beween a viper and a hag]], and 4th edition seems to go for a middle-of-the-road approach. ''[[Pathfinder]]'' (aka [[Fan Nickname|D&D 3.75]]), meanwhile, takes the "playmate with mildly scaly skin and snakes for hair" road. |
** Medusas, [[Gorgeous Gorgon|unsurprisingly]], [[Zig-Zagging Trope|zigzag]] depending on the edition. Those in 1st edition were horribly ugly, 2nd edition made them very comely if you could look past the snake hair (without being [[Taken for Granite]]), 3rd edition kept the comely bodies but the effect was somewhat marred by the scales [[Butter Face|and a face that looked like a cross beween a viper and a hag]], and 4th edition seems to go for a middle-of-the-road approach. ''[[Pathfinder]]'' (aka [[Fan Nickname|D&D 3.75]]), meanwhile, takes the "playmate with mildly scaly skin and snakes for hair" road. |
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** 4th edition also features an inversion - there are indeed male Medusas, but apart from being [[Bald of Evil|bald]], they're actually pretty handsome (and being scaly folk, the baldness isn't that bad). |
** 4th edition also features an inversion - there are indeed male Medusas, but apart from being [[Bald of Evil|bald]], they're actually pretty handsome (and being scaly folk, the baldness isn't that bad). |
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** ''The Fiendish Codex: Hordes of the Abyss'' introduces Obyriths, outrageously bizarre demons (as opposed to the more humanoid Tanar'ri) whose forms exude such a primal ''[[Eldritch Abomination|wrongness]]'' that looking at them can do permanent damage to your mind. Their queen has a "soft, feminine form," though it would be hard to describe her as cute, but then you find out that that's just the veil surrounding her, which formed because the plane of ultimate, horrible madness that spawned her refuses to accept that she is real. If looking at her true form doesn't simply kill you, you won't remember what you saw. |
** ''The Fiendish Codex: Hordes of the Abyss'' introduces Obyriths, outrageously bizarre demons (as opposed to the more humanoid Tanar'ri) whose forms exude such a primal ''[[Eldritch Abomination|wrongness]]'' that looking at them can do permanent damage to your mind. Their queen has a "soft, feminine form," though it would be hard to describe her as cute, but then you find out that that's just the veil surrounding her, which formed because the plane of ultimate, horrible madness that spawned her refuses to accept that she is real. If looking at her true form doesn't simply kill you, you won't remember what you saw. |
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** In ''[[Planescape]]'', female tieflings often fit; PC tieflings have Charisma bonus to show it. |
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* Used to its fullest in the ''[[Talislanta]]'' game-setting with the [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|Batrean race]], whose females are [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green-haired space babes]] (except when they're ''[[Flip-Flop of God|blue]]''-haired) with [[Love Is in the Air|seductive pheromones]], and whose males are gangling hairy ogres. Technically also true of the singular race of Gnorls and Weirdlings, although not for the usual reasons: Although Gnorls (the females) look like someone's 80-year-old grandma, that's ''still'' prettier than their male counterparts, the Weirdlings (who look like anorexic Yodas in their skivvies). |
* Used to its fullest in the ''[[Talislanta]]'' game-setting with the [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|Batrean race]], whose females are [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green-haired space babes]] (except when they're ''[[Flip-Flop of God|blue]]''-haired) with [[Love Is in the Air|seductive pheromones]], and whose males are gangling hairy ogres. Technically also true of the singular race of Gnorls and Weirdlings, although not for the usual reasons: Although Gnorls (the females) look like someone's 80-year-old grandma, that's ''still'' prettier than their male counterparts, the Weirdlings (who look like anorexic Yodas in their skivvies). |
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* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', a woman who has become a draconic Fairest is this by default, as Fairest are literally "the fairest of them all", and draconics have aspects of the Great Beasts of Faerie, such as [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|dragons]]. |
* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', a woman who has become a draconic Fairest is this by default, as Fairest are literally "the fairest of them all", and draconics have aspects of the Great Beasts of Faerie, such as [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|dragons]]. |
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