How do elves get around wearing headgear with their XXL ears?

How do elves get around wearing headgear with their XXL ears?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This thread is moronic.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      OP posted a baalBlack person thread, of course it is. And also not related to a single system or setting.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Elf with dreadlocks
        Intetesting

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          WHITE elf with dreadlocks, a woke card illustrator would never

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          WHITE elf with dreadlocks, a woke card illustrator would never

          He's a Mirrodin elf, those aren't dreadlocks or even hair, they're metal cables.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. It's a duck

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And it will get 100 posts minimum despite not being about a single game and despite OP only wanting to dump that picture.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Frick

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          At what point will your posts be related to traditional games?

          This

          Good.

          >Touch some grass
          Go back

          why did you feel it was necessary to split your reply into five posts, none of which adds anything of value?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Fpbp
      Baalbuddy is cringe as frick.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You mean based

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Chaotic Good a best

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The only baalbuddy fans I knew were 40 year old boomers who were more interested in seducing npcs and actively sabotaging other players while barely understanding the game system, or braindead zoomers who played call of duty when it wasn't their turn.
          So which one are you?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I'm the zoomer who joins the games only to seduce the NPC's and dab on rules autismos.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              And you wonder why you have no games.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          No-game garbage.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Chaotic Good or True Neutral all the way

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            My fricking brother.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why is NG Indian and NE Chinese?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Because India is NG, and China is NE.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              China is LE and definitely lawful in any case. It's THE lawful country.
              India is CN and definitely chaotic in any case. It's THE chaotic country.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                China projects an image of being THE lawful country. Anyone that's lived there knows it's lawless af in most places though. People ignore traffic laws and drive wherever the frick they want while cops stand there screaming at them,cheating on tests is mandatory and done openly, parents sell their daughters into prostitution, and people just squat and shit on the sidewalk.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Law is diluted from top to bottom in China, with the lowest level being very corrupt and the top level being completely incorrupt. This is how they achieve success where every other dictatorship achieves only new levels of misery.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >China,
                >the top level being completely incorrupt.
                literally lmaoing ny ass off @ u rn

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >China is LE and definitely lawful in any case. It's THE lawful country.
                lololol Check piracy stats.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                isn't that Somali and Iranian thing these days?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          lawful good is the only good decision

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Frick no, if she pulled that shit with something as important as children, what else is she going to pull off in the future?
            >You said you had gotten the car insurance!
            >Yes, insured it's soul by getting a priest to bless it's chassis. Now our beloved car is in heaven after that drunk ogre sat on it and used it's door hinges as a toothpick.
            >We got robbed of everything, why didn't you close the door before going out?!
            >Now those poor, poor people will enjoy the wealth they have never been able to experience!
            >Why didn't you take my mom to the hospital she's literally passed out on the couch??!
            >I couldn't possibly ask those kind people at the hospital to sacrifice one of their valuable beds for someone unless they actually were in dire necessity, what if someone else needs it more?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Lawful evil proving yet again it's the best alignment.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >basic drow b***h
            shit taste

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What a coincidence, so are you.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    By having the helmets specifically built with their ears in mind. I miss the old baron.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ear socks.

      Don't worry Anon. Torn will get us out of this mess.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The only mistake Baron Praxis made was trusting Jak to use the bomb.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The dark eco inside you will eventually kill you, Jak. Its destructive properties cannot be stopped

  3. 1 year ago
    Smaugchad

    Helmets just go over their ears like everyone else. It's not like their ears are made of bone.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Actually they're supposed to be made of fibrous cartilage as opposed to elastic cartilage supporting human ears. Otherwise they would droop down under their mass like dog ears. Fibrous cartilage isn't very elastic and can easily lead to significant discomfort, chafing or injuries when compressed against a helmet.

      • 1 year ago
        Smaugchad

        I mean, elves in my setting don't have super long bunny ears, not that you couldn't strap a helmet on a bunny but even those two things notwithstanding, discomfort could be a good reason that elves generally eschew heavy armor.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ???

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Should warrior elves who've been in man battles be missing half their ears?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Elf ears regenerate.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >his jokes make me exhale audibly through my nose
    This description is so autistic that I can buy it being written by an actual elf.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wait, she never said what the next step after high elf is called.

    • 1 year ago
      Smaugchad

      High elf level 2

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      a higher elf

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Highborne.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it's obviously what

      a higher elf

      said

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What do you mean, "she didn't"? It's called AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAA AAAAH!

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OP thoughts have all been replaced by memes. Let's see if he notices

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Lets a single person live rent free in your head so hard you can't say his name without the textual equivalent of spitting
      Shut up Black person, you're too young to be here.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ear cut-outs in the vast majority of cases. Specially made helmets with triangular outcrops for their ears otherwise.
    Yes this does make their helmets slightly less effective against shrapnel or slightly more expensive, but it's practically same-same

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Specially made helmets with triangular outcrops for their ears otherwise.
      Are there any settings that do this apart from FFXIV?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I don't know, I consider it normal for elves though since it would be such an obvious thing.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah. It's very common, actually. Unsurprising, as this is the only non-moronic way to reconcile elven ears with helmets.

          Nothing new.

          I thought you meant like this. The only setting I know where they do it regularly is FFXIV, where any helmets equipped by elves(elezen) get triangular protection, not just a holes for them to poke through.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            No, I don't know any such games or fantasy worlds. The closest thing is how hooded elves are sometimes depicted with two cones on their hoods to accommodate the ears.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Came here to post this, Elezen and Miqote (cat people for those that don't know the game's races) having ear protection for their helmets is actually really nice.

            And it makes sense, too. having your ears be the most exposed part of your head in a fight is a disaster waiting to happen.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The catte helms have a nice contour to them that gives the image that the helmets provide ear protection. The elf ear socks as seen in

              [...]
              [...]
              I thought you meant like this. The only setting I know where they do it regularly is FFXIV, where any helmets equipped by elves(elezen) get triangular protection, not just a holes for them to poke through.

              are just really bad and look painful.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            achstually FFXI did that first

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              FFXI walked so that FFXIV could run.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                and it's still hobbling along

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                More like FFXI walked so FFXIV could fall flat on its face.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >one of the best MMOs alive
                you a salty wowfugee?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Technically he's not wrong that FFXIV fell flat on its face. 1.0 was a disaster. The cutscenes were pretty good and obviously the setting and writing were strong, but they were totally unprepared for making an ONLINE game and their engine ran like shit as a result.
                This is why the ended 1.0 with the protagonists FAILING to stop the grand apocalypse the plot was building towards, they took some time off to rework things and brought back the game as A Realm Reborn, picking the plot back up 5 years after that time someone dropped the moon on us and a fricking dragon popped out of it to make the days worse for everyone than it already was.

                Sot FFXIV did fall flat on its face. The part he left out is that it got back up, wiped the blood from its nose, and won the race anyway.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No. MMO's are trash by default.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No I'm salty FFXIV is a shit fricking WoW clone instead of a FFXI sequel or even anything else.
                You absolute fricking moron.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >WoW Clone
                You either know nothing about WoW or FFXIV, and either way you need to stop letting Ganker dictate your opinions to you.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Seriously? I like XIV and even I know its a clone at its core, like what XI was to EQ. SMN on ARR release even lifted Warlock's moves wholesale, right down to identical levels learned, and it took several years to even wean away from that. One of the game's biggest strengths/faults is that its a kitchen sink mash-up of random references people like from other games even beyond FF, in a franchise of already generic stuff pulled together. even half the mobs are ripped directly from other FFs

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Technically he's not wrong that FFXIV fell flat on its face. 1.0 was a disaster. The cutscenes were pretty good and obviously the setting and writing were strong, but they were totally unprepared for making an ONLINE game and their engine ran like shit as a result.
                This is why the ended 1.0 with the protagonists FAILING to stop the grand apocalypse the plot was building towards, they took some time off to rework things and brought back the game as A Realm Reborn, picking the plot back up 5 years after that time someone dropped the moon on us and a fricking dragon popped out of it to make the days worse for everyone than it already was.

                Sot FFXIV did fall flat on its face. The part he left out is that it got back up, wiped the blood from its nose, and won the race anyway.

                Dressup simulator preying on AGPs, no legitimate gameplay value. But that's pretty much all Final Fantasies.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            chainmail sockets seem like a really bad way to solve this problem. forged pieces riveted in place or protrusions cast directly as a part of the helmet, both rounded off and attached directly along the sides to not become like horns (unlike pic related) are probably the best way to solve it. Size of protrusions would obviously depend on the size and angle of the ears. Or simply have a design of helmet that doesn't cover the ears

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The catte helms have a nice contour to them that gives the image that the helmets provide ear protection. The elf ear socks as seen in [...] are just really bad and look painful.

              Just posted the one with chainmail because it's the most quick to recognize look for that particular group of knights. One of your companions is also an elf dragoon and his helmet was better adapted to protect the ears.

              achstually FFXI did that first

              Sorry anon I never actually played XI.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I just lost my little potato uncle to a primal binding spell, I am familiar with the Nighogg's b***h and no the plate armor versions of the elf socks are just as bad.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                To be fair, the ear size and placement for Elezen doesn't really leave any GOOD options for ear protection. They stick out perpendicular to the rest of the head. Plated 'sock' is kind of the best you can hope for under the circumstances, and if you are an Elezen warrior you'll be happy to have it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I just lost my little potato uncle to a primal binding spell,

                I like the spooky version of Answers they play during that scene, nice callback to 1.0 and really sells the "Oh frick, we're all gonna die" threat of it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                RIP Papalymo, the best student.
                If you make it all the way to the endgame and get past EW, there's a sidequest in Sharlayan where you meet his dad.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I actually kind of like how besides looking ridiculous, the pauldron spikes actually do provide cover to deflect blows that would otherwise catch the ears

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah. It's very common, actually. Unsurprising, as this is the only non-moronic way to reconcile elven ears with helmets.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          ears sticking out like that is absolutely fricking stupid

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            why

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >I'm going into battle, better protect all my body
              >except my ears

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                For the vast majority of time, people did not spend fighting fulling enclosed in armor. While costs and available materials/technologies also played a factor, there is also the fact that being fully armored comes with disadvantages. Not covering your ears can more advantageous for elves, especially since ears might not even be the main region of their body targeted by enemy attacks. Same reason why some soldiers might prefer not having their vision blocked off by their helmet. While having your eyes gouged out hurts, it's a very small risk to actually happen and being able to clearly see everything could simply be a lot more advantageous.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                This

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Maybe the ears give them a vital advantage in battle. Maybe they allow the elves to hear the communication of enemy soldiers and the orders of their officers from miles away. Maybe the elves can use their movement to communicate without talking or facing each other, which is incredibly useful in a battle.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The way that those helmets are designed basically any kind of blow to the head is going to leave their ears sheared off or pulped against the side of the helmet.

              Armor is rarely intended to bring a blow to a dead stop head on, you'd much rather deflect a blow and have it slide or bounce off harmlessly. but with the ears both exposed and sticking out like that, any kind of glancing blow is going to catch on the ears, and ears are not known for their sturdiness.

              Even if the helmet protects the head from any further harm, you're going to end up with a lot of one-eared, or even earless, elves.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              fug, she cute

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nothing new.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >off-model art

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            it's concept art from age of reckoning, that mmo wh had for a while

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Most fantasy artists never think this through.
    Besides traditionally it is humans and dwarfs the ones using fully enclosed helmets.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Also, I want to comment people should draw anime more like Baalbuddy, I like how he can actually draw nostrils and lips instead of resorting to moeshit oversimplification.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He's a millennial, he had watched anime before the nostrils and lips disappeared.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Normally they just wear things that don't bother the ears, but for elven warriors who might wear full helmets, they ritually remove their ears when their training is complete. It forever marks them as a soldier for life, and in elven society is looked upon both with pity, but also great veneration, symbolically taking one's first wound in war so all may be free.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Medieval fantasy
    >Knowing what Dumbo is
    Immersion ruined

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >redditbuddy
    Ummm can I say YIKES?! Are you okay after posting that level of cringe, buddy??

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not your buddy, guy

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I love it when artists put thought into the equipment.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I wish I could draw so I could make lots of art of elf pilots

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Elves don't wear helmets. If elves are dedicated warriors they survive based off their enhanced senses and helmets interfere with that. Unlike more sensible races they have too much pride to conceal their faces, as well. More often they are simply not armored warriors, though. That's human and dwarf turf and that's absolutely reprehensible to elvenkind, so the few that take that approach to combat are seen as lesser.
    They're like Hollywood actors that can't go five minutes without someone seeing their face, high off their own nonexistent (outside of other elves and people who have fallen to elven propaganda) hype.
    Dwarves at least cover their noggin but they wear open-faced helmets to make sure everyone knows THIS beard is connected to MY face.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Stop trying to make elves terminally stupid so you can have an advantage over them. Its embarrassingly cringe.

      Elves know how armor works. They were the ones that taught the humans and dwarves how to make it in the first place. There's a reason why, in The Hobbit, when a group of dwarves find a cache of elven weapons they IMMEDIATELY ditch their dwarven gear for elf-made stuff. They know its better and are not going to pass up that kind of advantage.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >It is IMPOSSIBLE for Elves to have alien mindsets
        >It is CRINGE if they are ANYTHING but Human2.0

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >WAHH WHY CANT ELVES BE STUPID FRICKDOLLS FOR MY ENJOYMENT!!!
          Wasted dubs. Touch some grass

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Touch some grass
            Go back

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          "alien mindsets" doesn't stop you from wearing armour, a fight is a fight, even fricking crows understand that any advantage is worth getting.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Elven helmets that have two miniature portable holes.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Take the AI pill

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Sell your soul man, you'll be happier.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >t. trembling artshitter

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >He enjoys looking at the same pin ups and barely understandable landscapes over and over.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I fricking wish, Satan doesn't need this crap.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    imagine being so autistic you can't play online games that don't even require voice.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine letting low IQ chucklefricks into your cosy game world

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Come on you asswipes, keep your fapping to the /elf/ general, you don’t play traditional games anyhow

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I would, but it was spammed to death with low quality pictures of male elves.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Good.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    just have horse barding, but for elves. the little ear plates.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Many helmets used by humans in the real world didn't cover the ears. The Roman galea, for one. I also find it very fitting for elves to take on a more classical style than humans in a medieval fantasy setting, given their long lives and their tendency towards tradition.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous.

    >Not wearing a specifically crafted helmet designed to allow for ear movement, articulation, and hearing, while providing protection against cuts or strikes.
    This lack of initiative or foresight into such a basic conundrum, is why you are a Dwarf, and not an Elf.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Severely limits ear movement, which is stressful for elves. Imagine wearing a Ludovico Technique helmet into battle.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    at what point does a headpiece stop being a helmet?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      At what point will your posts be related to traditional games?

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you realize that the helmets worn by modern day armed forces do not cover the ears, right?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Humans have ears that don't stick out much. Long ears are a much bigger target with a slashing weapon than with a projectile weapon. I mean, try cutting a tree branch with a bullet.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    bumping thread so it doesn't die before I can read it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The cancer killing this website.
      We have archives.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    In my worldbuilding, most female elves use hijab/headscarves which keep the ears against the head. Males or females of especially high status sometimes use ear cuffs, with their ears being put in an ear sock and rolled up into a cinnamon roll shape, and a decorative metal cuff going over that.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Decent question.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

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