Recent content by Balsamic Dragon

Mercule: I apologize for crossing the line in my last comment. This topic is very frustrating to me at times, and I read your comments in conjunction with other people and replied as if you had said several things that you did not say. I really didn't want this thread to go as negative as it...

So what you seem to be saying is that although D&D started with a Eurocentric core, it has expanded since then (monk as a core class, etc). And you are happy to leave out the swords and sorcery subgenre that was also a main inspiration of D&D, because you don't "prefer" it. But making D&D not...

The reason I posted in the first place was to get away from the whole is this "bad/dumb/wrong" debate. Sadly, that didn't happen. What I would like is to see a diversity among female characters in art and to see more female PCs in art. Too often it becomes about what is wrong, but with no...

So what are the pictures of guys in fantasy art in D&D books? Are they pin-ups too? The problem is that you assume that the men are PCs and the women are NPCs. Female players want to see pictures of people that could be their player character, not just an NPC that is there to titillate the...

To be clear, in light of ArmoredSaint's comment, the purpose was to show a body type, rather than armor, or lack thereof. The character in question would be a monk (in D&D terms) and thus no armor. But I'm not suggesting that for all D&D art :)

I think jshaft37's pic is also a great pic of a female D&D PC! As far as muscles go, this gets to the heart of the issue. Women who are strong and train as combatant's have muscles. Big ones. Ildi Silva does not. She'd make a perfectly good mage, but she is not a believable image of a...

Except Korra has way more muscles, especially in her shoulders :)

You have forced me to Google Kim Kardashian :) She is about 120 pounds and stands 5 foot 2. She is a size 4. However, that isn't really why I wanted to reply. I guess my question for you is, what kind of body type would you consider to be inclusive for a female heroine? Because to me...

Really? Kim Kardashian? Are we looking at the same picture? Maybe if she was about 75 pounds lighter, a foot shorter, and had ginormous lips, but as is, I don't see the resemblance. As for blackface, she doesn't have any of those negative images in terms of her facial features. She has...

Ummm... No. D&D does not need more elfy elf girls with blond hair and short skirts. Been there, done that.

There has been a lot of discussion about inclusivity in fantasy art in general, and how the new version of D&D will incorporate it specifically. And a lot of folks have posted how NOT to do it :) Well, here's how to do it right: New Bios and Images Note that I am not saying that D&D should...

I both enjoy solving puzzles and have had a lot of practice at it, and your puzzle was not too hard :) However, gauging difficulty under stress conditions is another story. I had a GM give me a tower of hanoi puzzle once in a game. This is an easy kind of puzzle, but since it was a seven...

The longer answer to your question is that there are two hard things about putting puzzles into your game. First, why would someone put the puzzle there if they don't want someone to get in? It's just as easy to make the password something obscure and fail to leave the requisite riddle. These...

The solution to your puzzle is that the cross is actually a compass rose, with north pointing up. Touch S, W, N, W, E (as indicated by the first letter of each line of the poem).