9 hours ago, RevanT1 said:

Is it okay I give the monk hero big muscles or will that upset players? 

I'd be more upset if a warrior monk lacked strength and fitness. You can save the cliché of the old, frail or disabled martial arts master with transcendent powers (e.g. Oogway from Kung Fu Panda, Toki from Hokuto no Ken) for some other character.

However, there are big muscles and big muscles. For example:

• only "big" relative to a common person, as can be expected from an athlete (like, presumably, your monk)
• a harmless exaggeration, like in the way many One Piece characters are drawn (appropriate or not depending on the general style of your character design and art)
• the result of an imbalanced and impractical body building training (probably inappropriate)

That's a pretty tough lookin monk..  

hahaha, you're going to over-analyze yourself into not making anything at all if you keep this up.

Most of these questions are so subjective that you will get a different answer from every person you ask.  No matter what you do, somebody somewhere can and probably will take offense to it.  Luckily, 99.999% of those people probably wouldn't be interested in playing a fighting game to begin with. 

Remember your audience.  If you are making a game with fighting and violence, the players aren't usually too easily offended.  Now, if things don't look right(as in they are just badly done) then that's another story. 

On 1/10/2019 at 3:59 PM, RevanT1 said:

Is it okay I give the monk hero big muscles or will that upset players? 

I'm not gonna lie, I rolled my eyes a bit here... You're way too concerned about offending people. If that's the case then I would suggest you stay away from creative media.

You do realize fighting games have half naked females and little to no clothing, over sized men with massive muscles, people of all races and genders, and nobody who plays fighting games cares...

This is your game, take charge for once and stop worrying about every little thing. If you try to please everyone you'll ultimately fail. Learn your target audience and who plays fighting games and you'll find that you're overthinking your entire design process.

Yup, people get upset and mad and have all kinds of emotions.. lol.  Nothing to do about it.  Let them tantrum.  If it's a legit gripe it'll be obvious.

Just don't worry about it, go and make your game and roll with the punches. You're going to learn very quickly that people look to complain about everything and anything. Yes, there are "trolls" that will pick apart your media all in the name of "social justice", and the sooner you realize you have zero control the better you'll be. The worst thing you can do as a game developer is to attempt to please everyone because what will happen is you'll tangle up every aspect of your game and nobody will be happy.

Make the game you've envisioned, and once you've released it pay attention to your target customers legitimate feedback. I would completely ignore any complaints that are clearly there to cause controversy.

11 minutes ago, RevanT1 said:

maybe I'm overthinking this a bit

You are absolutely rabid.  hahaha..  Make your game already, wait 'til you have something to criticize before you worry about the critics. 

This right here is called analysis-paralysis and it never goes anywhere fruitful.