4 armed characters

I see, but assuming 4 arms work because lol magic.
Would having more limbs be disadvantageous in combat or not?

but...but...if you're born with them it should be natural to control them with ease...
so they shouldn't get in the way or impair your abilities.

but yeah caloric intake goes up and i guess that getting armour/robes will be more difficult

You're completely off, the human body burns about 1500/day doing absolutely nothing. Typically women burn around 2000 and men 2500. Extra arms would barely add anything.

What if instead of two sets of arms you had two sets of hands. Sort of like a bat.

increased risk of falling into Magical Realm

If you are into bondage however it's easier to hold someone down while you stab them in the navel.

Spend twice as much on gloves

>>much harder to learn new hand-based skills because you suddenly have twice as many outputs to operate. Wanna learn piano? yeah, you are gonna be a master, but you are going to have to spend twice as long learning it.
not how it works, user

You need to work out more to look fit.

How do you know how it works, dude?

>lose an arm
>suddenly master all arm-based skills in half the time it took before
>lose both arms
>instantly become god-tier at every arm-based skill, because [normal time]*[number of arms] = 0 seconds

Does it become twice as hard to read if you lose an eye?

Well a multiarmed race would likely still have a dominant arm.
So it would be like us having 1 right arm and 3 left arms (or vice versa). Or they'd have their arms in levels of dominance.
The extra arms would also consume more brain power making them less intelligent unless their brain was also at an increased size.

I can see some biological advantages to having 4 arms, more arms means carrying more, it would also make them better climbers and have a greater lifting capacity.
The only 2 advantages I can see in combat is if they could use all 4 arms to swing a great weapon with ease, and grapaling .
Apart from that its all negatives

Bump

not having six

he's likely referring to muscle memory. half of piano or dexterity-based skills are drilling the muscle memory into your hands. if you have an extra right hand then suddenly any muscle memory you learn with one will have to be repeated in the second in order to ingrain it properly.

>but...but...if you're born with them it should be natural to control them with ease...
People are born with crippling birth defects all the time, man.

Most people born with extra fingers can't use them very well.

you'd have to do twice as many exercise sessions to maintain a balanced physique.

depending on your job you'd also have to actively make sure you don't prefer using 2 over the other 2 to avoid atrophying their musculature. use it or lose it. OR maybe you actually want to do that and can specialize your arm pairs, maybe have a pair for lifting/strength-based tasks and a pair for writing/dexterity-based tasks.

Would a 4 armed race give "double" handshakes? Would 2 armed races be unable to give a "proper" greeting in such a society. You know how overly friendly old guys do the two handed shake where you cup the other persons hand in yours. That would be freaking if they did that with 4 hands

Handshakes are designated to show the other party you don't have a weapon in hand and are open to discussion. Other greetings, like the japanese bow or the chinese hand over fist military salute have the same meaning. You can use that info to design greetings for a four armed specy.

Such a specy would also understand the limitations of two armed species and would not take offense in not being physically able to perform their dedicated salute, provided some cultural exchanges have already taken place.

muscle memory isn't in the actual muscles you fucken retard.

This is like saying spiders find it harder to walk than we do because 8 legs requires more coordination. This shit is all low level processing in the brain

>muscle memory isn't in the actual muscles you fucken retard.
it's a mental map of how your muscles were used during a certain action. your brain has specific connections to each limb that are similar but not fully shared 1-to-1 between limbs.

do you think you're able to do something just as easily or efficiently with your left hand just because you can do it with your right? why wouldn't the same principle apply to something with 4 limbs?

>This is like saying spiders find it harder to walk than we do because 8 legs requires more coordination
complete non-sequitur. spider brains and limbs have almost no similarity to our own.

That's a retarded comparison. Playing piano is much more difficult with two hands than with one.

Assuming it's a mutation in the first place.

No matter how many arms you have, you'll only be forewarned - never sixwarned

One of the main races in my game has four arms like the OP. One set of arms is dominate, but that can be any pair. 80% are top dominate, 10% bottom, 4% for right or left dominate, and the remaining 2% are opposite corner arms dominate. The remaining arms are slightly less coordinated than the average person's off hand.

Mechanically, in game they count as always having a hand free for casting/ climbing/swimming/ drawing or stowing. They don't have the range of motion to effectively use 4 weapons. I'm a fight, they tend to fold their arms behind their back like a fencer might, unless it comes to bare handed combat, then it's all in. The extra arms narratively give them an advantage in magic, allowing for more complex somatic components. This makes them the masters of ritual magic, being able to work complicated magics in short order.

You have to spend more on magic items/clothes that fit since most are only going to have two arm holes. Need two sets of bracers or two sets of gloves for them to work. Maybe the extra muscle mass in the chest and legs needed to support more arms means you're less limber/dextrous and heavier so less stealthy/acrobatic ie dex penalty? Maybe one set of arms is dominant so the second set has disadvantage on attack rolls/no modifier added even with two weapon fighting?

Finding suits that fit.

Most of your calories are burned by your brain, liver and other organs. Skeletons and bones are only about 20% total so extra limbs wouldn't increase your required energy intake by that much.

bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/dissecting-the-energy-needs-of-the-body-research-review.html/

Indian gods do not have more than two arms. It's an artistic device.
t. Pajeet