Yeah mages in general can be, but Gale specifically is a book nerd with 8 strength who spends all his time in libraries. The most workout he gets on a daily basis is picking up books (and there’s a solid chance he uses Mage Hand for that instead of his only noodle arms).
He’s not at the gym, he’s in his study with a bottle of wine and a self-written book of failed poetry.
Thats why I made him a wildmagic barbarian 
the most exercise he’s ever done is pulling himself out of the locker that his cat pushed him into
only person i want pushing me into a locker is lae’zel
Or magical shoes that he wants to eat.
I’m not sure how long the campaign is meant to take, exactly, though the various characters cover quite a lot of distances on foot and camp out below the stars more often than they shack up in an inn. That’s a very easy way for guys to build muscle.
He wouldn’t need to hit the gym to maintain a decent amount of muscle and it’s the sort of decision that I think should have been made prior to launch rather than after it.
They did the same to Astarion, I think. Though I ended up always leaving him behind in the camp in favour of Shadowheart.
I may be a little jealous 
His rage screams are great
An excellent romance. The sunset scene in act 3 
I would be very surprised if it was more than a month, if anywhere close to that - they go a bit of a roundabout way and have to stop for dealing with things but the distance from the crash site to Baldur’s Gate can be covered on foot in a few days. Around half a week without interruptions. They weren’t trekking the length and breadth of the Sword Coast.
As for food, some days I force them to eat nothing in the evening except for four wheels of cheese and a barrel of beer. Balanced and nutritious diets are not on the table, no matter how many shoes Gale eats.
(also Gale is the designated Camp Cook, so the chores of setting up the camp will of course go to someone else - probably Lae’zel)
If his - or anyone else’s - bodytype changed over the duration of the game then…maybe, but they all start the same and end the same. We’re not deploying Kojima real-time beard growth technology over here.
Everyone else: Ferocious
Galebarian: “aaaaaa. Ahem. Pardon me.”
No Elenthas, the bookish wizard with 8str needs to be built like a linebacker.
me respeccing Karlach into a wizard: heheheheh
RDR2 has both beard growth and weight gain/loss mechanics btw
(posting on behalf of my RDR2 brainworms because they don’t have fingers)
He sometimes sounds outright confused to me. Like he’s phoning it in during a theatre play where he was told he had to fill in for the real barb player.
best we can do is mpreg mod?
Karlach beats Gortash to death with her spellbook, party too afraid to correct her on proper mage practices.
Always the best 
Gale is 100% a theatre kid, so this checks out. He’d be a bard if he was better at poetry than spell formulas.
Speaking of, did you know that canonically Volo is a wizard not a bard, D&D is dumb.
I did know this
It’s a magical experience so it still counts
Gale is jacked because his sheer… raw magnitude carries the party.
Always kind of curious if anybody actually got Arthur overweight in rdr2. Mine is always wafer thin, which apperantly makes him run more. I call shenanigans on that. I’m thin and can’t run for the bus, nm trek 7000 miles through rough terrain to a camp because a bear ate my horse. A horse I spent hours tracking down and caring for. Even naming it miss cloppy instead of horse because I favoured it so much.
Not that rdr2 has unresolved issues psychologically or anything.
When I hit a tricky bug that I just can’t fix for days, I start eating myself, thinking I’m a crap programmer and a fraud.
All the bigger the satisfaction when I finally do fix it — and gain newfound understanding of the system in the process.
You need to eat a certain amount of “calories” (different foods have different weight gain values) and actually sleep for hair and weight to update.
Thin Arthur is more aerodynamic and can run more, fat Arthur can eat more bullets.
RDR2? Mental health struggles? Noo. Not the fun cowboy barbie game!
Literally?
Actual peeve: Blizzard (or others) announcing event times in American time zones even for an international audience.
If automatically converting the time to the user’s time zone is too hard (even though it’s just one line of JavaScript), at least have the courtesy to also provide the time in UTC. Don’t make me do timezone arithmetic in my head. “Right, it’s 10:00 PST, which is UTC minus… how many? Wait, is that with or without daylight savings time? This is crap.”