How would a modern-day female bodybuilder fare in a sword-and

>>50138345
>inb4 -4 STR meme

>>50138345
masturbate before you post

>>50138345

Well while she is fit i see a few problems. I'm going to be working off the assumption she just kinda gets dropped in.

1. depending on the conditions you set for her entry, which you haven't actually, She starts with pretty much nothing. So, without resources or a support structure, even though she is fit she will probably live in squalor and die

2. She isn't trained in combat. Despite being fit she doesn't know the first thing about how to apply it. So she couldn't turn around and be an adventurer. Maybe she could do hard labor, but that brings me to three

3. Unless everyone is malnourished, many of the men in setting would be stronger than her anyway. And even if she had juiced enough to break her natural upper limits, assuming she can't get roids or maintain a body builders diet she's just going to fade anyway.

>>50138408
What if some local lord hires her as a purely cosmetic bodyguard ?

>>50138367
Please do this next time...
...but Since we're already here, let's go over the basics.
>Stranger in a strange land
>Has no money of her own
>Has no Known Combat or Self Defense experience, just relying on pure muscle.
>All the Modern conveniences she knows are gone

She's either gonna be a beggar and get raped, or become prostitute.

>>50138431

Theoretically possible. Would require extenuating circumstances, but we've already accepted the premise that a female body builder magically lands in fantasy land, so there is no reason she couldn't be seen by a passing noble with a thing for stronk women. Maintenance would still be an issue. Takes a lot to fuel bodybuilding, and i'm not even talking roids, just the straight protein and carb intake is very hard to do, especially if you didn't have supplements.

>>50138345


What does "fare" mean anyway? Fare as a bodybuilder? Or as some kind of martial class? If the latter, then who knows. Just because she's strong doesn't make her good at fighting, and muscles won't stop metal blades or attack spells.

If she's reliant on lots of protein intake then that's harder for her to get. Meat tends to be more expensive, Create Food traps notwithstanding, and protein shakes and all that other shit doesn't exist. Muscle-toning like hers is generally a luxury, and the kind of working strong men and women in a sword-and-sorcery setting wouldn't have it.

>>50138446
Or she can do what any female bodybuilder does: become a trophy wife for someone who has money

Poorly - gender aside, you're running into two issues here. One that modern day bodybuilders rely on variety of food supplements and other substances that would not be available in fantasy setting. Her "gains" would wither rapidly. Two that goal of bodybuilding is primarily the muscular looks, not effective muscle strength. So while stronger than untrained individual she would not be that much stronger. Powerlifter would be far better choice
>Samantha Wright.webm

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>>50138475
the average sword and sorcery barbarian manages to maintain a perfectly developed physique on a meager hunting-and-gathering diet, so that's not an issue

>>50138515

If you're just handwaving everything then there's no basis for discussion. You can just say whatever you like happens, because reasons.

>>50138515

Just gonna step in here for a second. The idea that the diet of a hunter gatherer is meager or that they live on the edge is actually bullshit in many cases. Anthropological studies have shown that hunter gatherer societies meet or exceed their calorie requirements, and still manage to have more free time than we do in modern society. Can's source that right at this second, but if you'd like i can go back and find it from my old anthropology text books.

With that being said it is no where near enough to sustain a bodybuilder. And fantasy aesthetics are there cause that's how we like it, not cause it makes sense. We are approaching this from a more logical point of view than just what are the paintings like.

In the context of a roleplaying game she'd just be a high-charisma character with above-average constitution and strength.
Her best bet is becoming a street performer, or maybe a dancer. And I'm sure there's plenty of bikini contests in Cimmeria.

>>50138579
not everything, just the inaccurate statements you make.
For example, saying that that it's hard to maintain a bodybuilder physique in a sword and sorcery setting is inaccurate. That's common knowledge.

>>50138606

Do they have nutritional supplements? Is food, namely lean meat, as readily available as it is today? Can they devote a large portion of their day to lifting? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then they probably can't maintain.

>>50138515
Bitch can lift, not hunter gather.

Unless someone takes her in shes fucked.

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>>50138345
She'll probably be a fine warr/barb, maybe even a paladin?

>>50138647
probability is irrelevant in the face of raw facts.

>>50138345
>clit of frost slut strength +5
hnngghhhh

>>50138345

Is the bodybuilder built for strength or show? Show muscles don't impart a great deal of strength, male or female, but a strength bodybuilder builds for lifting and core.

>>50138446

If we're going the route of "fantasyland but traditional gender roles," why not go the route of her joining a travelling circus and being the strong woman, because nobody has ever seen a woman crush a watermelon between her thighs before?

Might as well drop them some place interesting, because generally a story of a guy getting dropped in a fantasy world and dying three days later from disease and exposure is typically boring. We're already injecting fantasy into this, or rather injecting this into fantasy, so we might as well go the route of fantasy narrative and explore the interesting stories rather than injecting the real world into fantasy and then just having fantasy act exactly like reality, making this question redundant, as we might as well have dropped our hypothetical subject in the middle of a Siberia or something.

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>>50138743

>>50138345
Absolutely shit, same as male body builders, the standard body builder physique isn't good for anything that's not showing off and is often fairly unhealthy

They may look impressive but the muscles they've worked on USUALLY aren't any good for long term manual labor or combat, mind you they'd do better than your average basement dweller, but compaired to someone who's actually physically fit and/or does heavy lifting or fighting for a living? They'd be worth shit all

>>50138743
Nope.

She dont know which end of the pointy stick to point at an enemy.

Grand total of 0 combat skills, a bulky farm-boy could probably take her in a fight.

Meaning said bulky farmboy would make the better warr/barb.

>>50138799
I am a basement dweller who got fit a few years back at a shitty job lifting lots of boxes.

Fell back into the flab since then but when I was fit I still looked a bit chubby after 4-6 hours a day moving around 50 pound boxes for nearly a year.

>>50138805
Yeah, but in an adventuring party, she can strike awe into the hearts of the enemy and dazzle them with her glistening oiled-up abs and perfect hair.

>>50138888
Ok, I could maybe see her swinging some form of bardic performer doing a strongman act.

Would take a bit bit more than your average body builder but its not impossible.

Alright then how would she fare in a sex slave harem?

>>50138888
So she's the bard?

>>50138978
musclebard

>>50138978
Shes a performer of some sort that if she had the know how she could do a few feats of strength to demoralize the enemy and stir confidence in comrades.

I know there a number of tricks relying more on the know how of leverage than the raw strength.

>>50139069
But doesn't that mean she would constantly need a big strong man to protect her?

>>50138345

Slightly worse than an average in-shape male

>>50139106
Any bard is usually better off with a meatshield to pose dramatically behind.

>>50138345
She'd probably die.
But so would most of the morons in this thread.

Including me.

>>50138888

Shit that's actually a pretty good concept: she could pose as a Valkyrie or some similar warrior-angel thing and all the superstitious picts would be terrified.

>>50139215

Never said i had better odds than she would. You drop most humans into an environment they aren't used to with next to no resources and no support structure and they will die. We survive through group cooperation and learned/taught behaviors, not because we are paragons of physical ability.

>>50138345
>-4 strength

>>50138446
Please masturbate before you post.

>>50138508
>that goal of bodybuilding is primarily the muscular looks, not effective muscle strength.
Stop being stupid.

>>50138770
>Show muscles don't impart a great deal of strength
Fucking stop.

>>50142213
>>50142230
Lel it's actually true.

>>50138345
No gear, no combat training, no connections that would allow her to acquire either gear or combat training, no actual skills that would allow her to find work as anything more than a laborer which means she's never getting those connections. She's fucked.

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>>50138345
Horrible, considering bodybuilders lift for looks and not for strength. They want to bloat their muscles as much as possible and even dehydrate themselves prior to competitions. A female bodybuilder would be stronger than your average woman, but weaker than either a female powerlifter or even an average man.

As for female powerlifters... they too would rank below average men. Especially average medieval men, who would mostly spend their time doing physical labor and would be in pretty decent shape assuming they're not (too) underfed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_human_physiology#Muscle_mass_and_strength
Even when comparing entirely untrained men to professional female athletes, it's found that untrained men have higher gripping strength for example. The differences in male and female physiology are so overwhelmingly great that nothing can overcome it.

That's why it's called fantasy: realism is thrown out of the window and a borderline anorexic supermodel can utterly destroy a male musclehorse in a wrestling match.

>>50142213
>>50142230
Bodybuilders are stronger than your average motherfucker, but it's not functional strength. Compare powerlifters and bodybuilders, and you'll find that powerlifters look highly unimpressive and often on the fat side. Pic related is the strongest man in recorded history and he looks downright tubby.

>>50142352
Truth is that even strongmen competitors and power-lifters wouldn't be all that useful as adventurers/soldiers.
Adventuring requires lots of traveling and going into the wilds with limited supplies which would melt away all the fat and muscle pretty fast

>>50142391
Yeah, I overlooked that. When you're adventuring you're mostly trying to get from point A to point B and back (or to a later point C). Your supplies are as much of an enemy to you as the monsters you face.

>>50138408
>without resources or a support structure, even though she is fit she will probably live in squalor and die
This is patently untrue. How many sword-and-sorcery heroes have little resources and support? Pretty much all of them. How many die in squalor? None of them.
>She isn't trained in combat
doubt.jpg. Seriously, how many musclegirls have you seen in S&S that DIDN'T rek shit? None of them. It just doesn't make sense.
>Men would be stronger
doubt.jpg x10000. See above.

You guys are the faggots begging for ""realism"" in games which would clearly suffer for it, aren't you?
>>50138579
Yep. Alright.

>>50142635
>How many sword-and-sorcery heroes have little resources and support? Pretty much all of them. How many die in squalor? None of them.
Because, they are, you know, heroes. As in exceptionnal individuals.
You follow the history of Conan instead of a thousand other barbarians because he ws the only one that reached the top.

>>50142875
You miss two points:

The point is that Muh Realism does not apply here; her being "without support" is not a gotcha.

She is a musclegirl. She is a narratively important individual by default.

>>50142885
>She is a narratively important individual by default.
Huh? Why?
You're using circular logic:
>Female bodybuilders would fare well in a S&S setting because they're important
>Female bodybuilders are important because they fare well in the setting.

"I kick ass because I'm the protagonist" is a staple of bad isekai, not good stories.
If she wandered from place to place acquiring experience, was born in an amazonian society, got the blessing of a goddess, a magic sword, dragon blood, or a wise master to train her? Sure, any of those backgrounds would mean she could kick ass.
But simply because she has well-defined muscles? Meh. Any S&S peasant girl will have the same by simply working in the fields 8 hours a day. That doesn't make her remarkable in the slightest.

You got heroic peasant girls IRL, like Jeanne D'arc or Jeanne Hachette yeah, I like french medieval girls called Jeanne. But they're heroic because of their unusual deeds, not because of their upbringing.
Just because some nerd fought off a panther doesn't mean that nerds are the best hunters of big felines in the world.

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>>50142977
>yeah, I like french medieval girls called Jeanne
That's simply a sign of good taste, mon nègre.

>>50142977
>>Female bodybuilders are important because they fare well in the setting.
You have bad reading capabilities.

They are important because they have big muscles.

>Any S&S peasant girl will have the same by simply working in the fields 8 hours a day.
This is retarded.

what are the stats of a high-cut spandex leotard or modeling bikini?

>>50138483
That's a kind of prostitution.

>>50138345
Best case scenario? She wipes out a few bands of kobolds and goblins for a local town and gets picked up by a passing party of adventurers as a martial.

>people answer the question seriously and reflectively
>OP gets assraped about it because he only wanted people to write musclegirl ERP shit
OP was an unusually heavy powerfaggot this time.

>>50143500
>OP gets assraped about it because he only wanted people to write musclegirl ERP shit
Uh, no.

I only made like two or three sporadic posts

>>50143534
You aren't OP.

>>50138345
The funny thing is she probably isn't even as strong as a totally average man in this pic, just cut. Pics like these trade on the lack of scale, stood next to a man she'd almost certainly look tiny.

>>50143280
I take it you've never done any serious manual labour in your entire life?

>>50144514
Motherfucker they call it body building for a reason. You need to build that shit, you don't just grow muscles that large.

Actual peasants get really lean; their muscles are super dense, not big. At absolute best they look kinda muscly, but never bodybuilder level.

And, of course, we're not talking about real life. This is pretty obvious. No peasant's going to be the muscly hero in a S&S story, not unless they're the burly blacksmith.

>>50144514
He doesn't even know anyone who has.

Most people nowadays don't really realize how weak and flabby their sedentary, non-physical jobs have made them, not just because they have one of those jobs, but because they literally don't know anyone who does.

For a nerd it was pretty shit in a lot of ways to grow up in rural nowhere, but one thing that was good about it was getting a sensible baseline for what a human being is supposed to be shaped like.

>>50144578
>their muscles are super dense, not big

I really don't get it. You know bodybuilder's big muscles are inefficient, yet you get angry when people point out that bodybuilder's big muscles are indeed inefficient and wouldn't provide any advantage in a sword and sorcery setting?

If you wish for a displaced modern-day musclegirl so much, give a musclegirl fetish to some god in the setting, so he takes an interest in Mrs. bodybuilder and gives her mythical powers.
But don't expect it powers to come naturally. A RL dwarf won't gain a beard, an axe and an absurd tolerance to booze just by being transported into a fantasy setting.

>implying she won't join a circus troupe and being in gold with feats of strength literally doing the exact same job.

>>50144892
>You know bodybuilder's big muscles are inefficient, yet you get angry when people point out that bodybuilder's big muscles are indeed inefficient
Here's the solution to your Big Problem: I never said the last thing. I DID say that she would obviously obey the laws of the setting, which run on narrative and not physics (as an autist might assume).

>>50144892
>>50142352
Have you never seen a sword and sorcery setting? Female body builder with floofy 80's hair is what your typical fem-barbarian looks like. Teach her to swing a two handed sword and swap the spandex for fur or chainmail and she's indistinguishable from an indigenous resident of the setting.

>>50138345

Bodybuilding is about muscles, not strength. She gon' die.

>>50138345
https://youtu.be/QfNHFv2slMY

This is what a modern combat athlete of comparable weight can do to a male bodybuilder using only unarmed martial arts. This chick would get murdered the first time she encountered any male with a weapon, especially if they were trained.

>>50146366
A real world bodybuilder *looks* like a fantasyland barbarian, but what she actually *is* is a real world bodybuilder. The question is not how someone who looks like a modern female bodybuilder but is actually native to the setting would fare. The question is how a modern female bodybuilder would fare.

muscle woman catches the eye of the local chieftain, she's not from arround.
gets challenged to strength test. non combat because you can't take a woman seriously, she owns at throwing rocks.
BB lady is submissive and can clean a kill and pick woos, brings back memories from Nana's in the old country when they were poor in the winter.
she picks too much wood, and the chieftain is pleased, she does laundry for 3 women half her size.
best chieftain slave wife, mothers a better race with superior genes and hgh milk.

>>50146544
>A real world bodybuilder *looks* like a fantasyland barbarian
Ergo in fantasyland she is one.

This really isn't difficult.

>>50146544
I'm saying that once she's in the setting, she follows the same rules. Which means aesthetic muscles = very strong. Training might still be an issue.

>>50146607
>Ergo in fantasyland she is one.

No. That's a total non-sequitir. The real world bodybuilder does not have the fantasyland barbarian's upbringing. She has no idea how to swing a sword. Lacking any of the barbarian's skills, her strength is useless.

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>>50146366
Yeah, and give a human dwarf a beard and an axe and he's undistinguishable from Gimli; it still doesn't mean him a fantasy dwarf with darkvision.

>>50146249
>which run on narrative and not physics
Let's take Dark Sun, the Sword & Sorcery setting of DnD : Even the most rickety old man in there is supposed to be a complete beast compared to heroes in other settings (in fact there is an adventure where a minor Dark Sun beast wreaks havoc in the Forgotten Realms), because they have spend generations fighting against the harshest conditions and creatures known to man. Their apparence doesn't have a lot to do with their powerlevel, even if Darksun is full of bodybuilders in leather thongs.
So, on narrative alone, she still gets her ass kicked.

>>50146637
Sure, whatever. Doesn't fucking matter, she doesn't have any actual skills with which to use that strength.

>>50146651
>doesn't *makes* him
Dunno why it swap words like that when I write english, I don't have this problem with other languages.

>>50146663
some systems alligator grapple as a given also picking up heavy shit is a skill

>>50138508
A power lifter would be "stronger" when doing three things: deadlifting, squatting, and pressing. Volume training is a great way to get actually generally applicable strength, better than nervous system training. Because there's no form for real life.

She's gonna be way better off than an average powerlifter.

>>50144578
>their muscles are super dense, not big

Being this retarded.

>>50146645
>That's a total non-sequitir.
I do not think you know what a non-sequitur is.
>The real world bodybuilder does not have the fantasyland barbarian's upbringing. She has no idea how to swing a sword. Lacking any of the barbarian's skills, her strength is useless.
We've already established this is untrue.
>>50146663
See above.
>>50146651
Of course it does. Could you imagine a huge muscle-bound woman in a S&S setting NOT being a badass?

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>>50146909
This is a Sherpa. You know who Sherpas are.

Does he seem particularly fuckhuge to you?

>>50146405
Muscles are about strength, too. There's a lot of strength you can get from training your nervous system to activate your muscle thoroughly and explosively for specific movements, but if you're a skinny pansy, you're gonna brick wall in your strength training.

Most bodybuilders are super fucking strong. Some squat ass to grass, all deadlift huge, all bench press huge. They don't sit around bicep curling all day because they know that won't get them any muscle growth.

I fucking hate this thread so much. Goddamn you all. I'm so fucking triggered. Fuck. You win OP you win. My autism has been beyond triggered it has ascended to its planer form.

Realistically no, she dies in the vast majority of cases. In S&S she has three options she either:

a dies

b gets abducted by a villain to then be rescued by the hero and become his slam piece or become trained by him, still possible becoming his slam piece.

or c gets found by a wise mentor and trains to become a badass barbarian woman.

In your muscle girl fetish world, she sucks your cock and has glistening abs and is the best thing ever and forever.

>>50146977
I'm not saying muscle size is directly proportional to strength. I'm saying there is no such thing as extra "dense" muscle. It's just make believe.

>>50146917
>Could you imagine
As a rule, yes, I can. That's why I play rpgs.

What you want is someone getting transformed into another archetype as a result of interdimensional travel. Basically Den.
What's the point of her being a female bodybuilder beforehand, if her role, skillset and personality aren't the same at all (Since I doubt a modern-day bodybuilder would do anything but shit her pants and run screaming when facing a dragon)? Why not go a step further and take a nerdy girl from our world and make her a badass barbarian woman in a SnS setting?

On a sidenote, I'm glad to know that I'll become a powerful wizard if I get transported to a fantasy setting, since I have a beard, glasses and a bathrobe on me presently. It could actually be a pretty fun setting, riot cops becoming knights, garbage collectors djinns due to their reflective clothing, and so on.

>>50146663
>Sure, whatever. Doesn't fucking matter, she doesn't have any actual skills with which to use that strength.

But this being fantasyland, all she needs is a montage.

Preferably after meeting a swarthy, rugged local who first mocks her for her womanly form shortly after her arrival in Ye Olde Fantasylande. Of course, she shows him up by being super-strong (even stronger than him!) but her lack of familiarity with anachronistic medieval-ish weapons is shown to be a dramatic shortfall after the pair are attacked by disgusting green mooks!

Having barely survived the fray thanks to their teamwork and BB Babe's impressive muscle-using skills, the man admits that perhaps she might not be completely useless... if only she knew how to swing a sword!

And the romance subplot basically writes itself.

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>>50138345
>How would a modern-day female bodybuilder fare in a sword-and sorcery setting

I would just say a female who was born exceptionally large, or at least more proportionate to her average male counterparts. Humans are sexually dimorphic, but plenty of exceptions occur in both genders all the time.

How would she fare? I imagine the same as anyone else who can pick up and use a weapon.

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>>50138363
>>50140323
Be careful, lads.

>>50138408
>Unless everyone is malnourished, many of the men in setting would be stronger than her anyway

It's not uncommon for guys to have genes that make them stand no taller than 5'6", and it's no less uncommon for them to have genes that make their arms have a less average circumference than their mothers'.

Sexual dimorphism is a general occurrence, not a rule of nature. It's not remotely realistic to say the strongest females are generally weaker than an average male. Are women smaller and weaker on average? Yes. But this is not a constant. Characters generated by players are made up of as many exceptions as the player wants, and these exceptions are within the realm of scientifically and genetically feasible possibilities, including females with 18 STR and CON.

>>50147113
>As a rule, yes, I can. That's why I play rpgs.
If you need to make up your own RPG to do something...then you can't. We're not talking about your personal magical realm here, we're talking about actual S&S.
>>50147098
Motherfucker are you seriously trying to tell me that people don't get more muscle from doing shit like hiking up mountains with massive bags?

Shit, you can see his calves in that picture. They're not fuckhuge, but you can see they're not the flabby slug-things normal people have (in the west anyway).

>>50147357
>we're talking about actual S&S.
For now I'm the only one that has cited actual S&S settings, like Conan, Dark Sun and Den.
The three of which actually also have both a handful of powerful people that dont look like roided bodybuilders and some musclebound women acting as potted plants or slaves on occasion.

>>50147494
Do you have any actual examples of musclegirls being just normal?

>>50138743
>detailed body
>smiley face
fuckig anime

>>50147542
Heh, good luck finding S&S art of almost anyone being normal. Family breakfasts aren't a staple of the genre.
Anyways, just google Frazetta. Half of his women are badass warriors, the other half is composed of sultry seductresses or damsels in distress, and he makes absolutely no difference of bodytype between the two kinds.

>>50147699
>and he makes absolutely no difference of bodytype between the two kinds.
This is largely true, however, it's also true that he doesn't draw musclegirls.

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>>50147542
DnD 3rd edition player handbook, half-orc.
Idle, smiling, non-threatening (contrary to the male one that looks about to eat the gnome), dare I say seductive?

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>>50146917
>We've already established this is untrue.

No. No we have not.

>>50147178
>But this being fantasyland, all she needs is a montage.

Pic is related. You don't get a montage just for showing up. Whoever's lucky enough to survive long enough to get the montage is the person whose story is told. The bones who litter the dragon's cave don't have their stories told, but they all would've seemed like the main character right up until they bit the dust in the finale. Most would-be heroes don't even make it that far.

>one stupid troll keeps the reasonable anons raging for hours.

Everybody done goofed and fell for the fetishist's b8. I call bullshit. Unless he is literally retarded no one is this dense. He has to be trolling. No way he doesn't realise his position is untenable.

>>50148112
I don't care, I like arguing, it helps me organizing my thoughts. And it's not like the debate has devolved to shit flinging.

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>>50142230
True, my tae-bo instructor is built like the guy on the bottom, his main focus is karate (4th Dan) but he's as light on his feet as a dancer and he could snap me in two in a moment. Genuinely scary. Fucking great trainer.

>>50146741

Picking up heavy things is one of the first things to come to mind when you say the words "unskilled laborer." The girl has a bright future ahead of her as a dockworker making just enough each day to pay for the booze she needs to forget it.

>>50139215
>Native american hunter
>Teach neolithic hunter-gatherer skills at summer camps
I'll be the last of the /tg/s

>>50142635
>This is patently untrue. How many sword-and-sorcery heroes have little resources and support? Pretty much all of them. How many die in squalor? None of them
Because you get handed a shitty sword by an old man in a cave and imediatelly begin to expropate the local fauna's loot.

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>>50138345

She would rise quickly among the orcs.

>>50148467

Because the body build on the bottom is for PEAK PERFORMANCE.

>BB lady goes to the local guild to find a job
>NEXT!
>What are your former occupation and skills?
>"I LIFT THINGS UP AND PUT THEM DOWN"

Reminder that Arnie could deadlift 700lbs. Bodybuilders are strong as fuck, but they get smashed by people who train for specific tasks.

A female bodybuilder would be strong enough to survive as a typical soldier, but she'd still need train how to fight.

>>50138345
shitty. modern bodybuilders avoid cardio because it kills gains. they are not cut out for martial combat.

>>50149192
>implying you won't be too busy shaking from mouthwash withdrawal to find food

>>50151240
That's why Arnold biked 10 miles each day right?

>>50151899
Careful man. Bodybuilding has changed a hell of a lot from Arnie's time. You've seen apollonian builds become a thing, for the preference to go back to herculean builds, I don't even know what's going on right now. My coworker who does contests every now and then did some cardio, mostly when he was cutting down, but talking modern bodybuilding with what Arnie did is kinda dangerous.

>>50152076
Well take Big Lenny for example then. He's 300lbs LEAN and he bikes all over the place.

He will of course die when his gut explodes into hundreds of mini Lennys though.

>>50151780
>Implying I can't make moonshine

You are all forgetting that the ability to fight, survive in harsh conditions, and quickly learning the advantages of the environment are far greater factors than physical strength in a direct combat situation as well as whatever else an adventure entails.

>>50152154
you can't make it fast enough to stop abstinence symptoms from kicking in

>>50152282
>abstinence syptoms
so you're saying he'll become a wizard?

>>50152313
>getting superpowers from impotent racism exposure
Not the worst /tg/ has come up with.

I think this thread is ignoring the impact of chronic injury on pre modern people. Like everyone you'd be fighting would have an unrepaired hernia, poorly set bone, parasite infection, or some other thing holding them back.

>>50138345
Poorly. Bodybuilders generally suck at fighting for many reasons. A better question is how would Ronda Rousey fare if she trained with a sword instead of her fists?

>>50138755

Except it's not a fact, it's just handwaving.

Worse, it's pseudo-intellectual handwaving that no doubt will come with a side of "muh genre conventions" and "muh established consensus".

>>50147321
I hope your joking anon

>>50153072
I'm serious.
And don't call me a nun.

>>50138508
>le functional strength maymay
t. DYEL

>>50138978
badbarian
I like it.
I was actually thinking on creating a bardbarian named Chad Thundercock, for the lulz.

>>50147321
I'm pretty skeptical about the arm circumference one but yes I know the 5'6" is legit. But fantasy DnD setting is slightly different, not that it really matters. Technically all humans are "medium sized"

>>50147567
What? She's just smiling over all the spines she's about to break.

Her face is nice, don't know what yer bitchin' about. She even has a nose!