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Uh....while I can't speak for the other thing or the other people, I personally reported a much lesser incident at PaizoCon and received the utmost care, attention and serious offers for significant action to be taken. It was my choice not to name the individual, but instead to simply warn about...

I don't think molestation was actually detailed. Killing a cute bunny in front of a kid would also count. This said, I agree that out of respect for community sensibilities, keeping such material well separated from the main body of the game is a good idea.

Paizo has already stated that they feel they should not have done so in their product, and of course I do not speak for them in any way. But my feeling on the slippery slope of your telling me that I am not allowed to stat something out goes something like this. The existence of kids is never a...

As to the suggestions that Paizo handles harassment reports poorly, from my admittedly limited perspective as an attendee who had an entirely different but not completely dissimilar problem, I would have to say that they were tremendously interested in making sure that anyone who behaved...

WRT Folca, how do you expect to flesh out horrible, evil villains for players to fight against without backstory and at least some notion of how their mechanics and stats work? And is everyone going to start piling on Stephen King next for what he created? Or on people who enjoyed his most...

Not okay. The word 'tranny' is considered a slur, on par with the n-word for African Americans, and not an acceptable term for a transgendered person.

No, it's creepy when someone keeps talking to themselves and arguing vehemently against positions that nobody is actually taking. The article to which you're referring is a pretty simplified summary of some fairly complex findings, none of which translate quite into what you're claiming...

I also am fairly sure that I have seen the studies he's vaguely referring to, and I agree they are being misrepresented in a creepy manner to imply that women have no agency and that he knows better than us what we actually want and need. Also they are irrelevant to this discussion. Sexual...

Drow social structure would tend to encourage homosexuality in both genders, and there is certainly nothing in their hedonistic mindset that should discourage it. You can thank hypocritical homophobia, the kind that says lipstick lesbians are great to look at but gay men are just wrong to show...

It's certainly a solid step in the direction of both genders being equally silly in their attire. I do hope those are Shiny Leather Buckles of Arrow Protection +3. Or that he's going to a fetish club and not a fight. You can not move or dodge very well in what amounts to bondage gear. I...

That would be funny, but I was comparing the notion that not catering to heterosexual male dominant romantic power fantasies with helpless female game objects is misandrist to the notion that not catering to gay romantic power fantasies with gay leather bar scenarios in the core D&D books is...

Wow. I didn't know Manti Te'o played D&D! :angel: If you and your girlfriend want to play Strong Barbarian and Helpless Princess, or Fifty Shades of Puce, or whatever else livens up your love life, you rock on with your bad self. Nobody will mind.* Consenting adults can do that stuff...

Reading comprehension. Do you have it? Catering exclusively to straight men's preference for 'female beauty' at the expense of making women look stupid is not okay. It excludes women, and it also makes the men in this hobby look like stereotyped nerdly virgins who don't actually know any real...

Excellent post, JonWake. I'm not sure anyone does hip and harness lifts any more, but I do know that women who lift even semi seriously tend to really excel in lower body strength. I would characterize myself as a semi serious lifter, and I found it quite amusing when a strong young college...

And now you're just making stuff up. I was talking about harpies specifically in the category of their not being an inappropriate depiction of nudity. It is completely appropriate and not stupid to draw monsters without clothes on, because they don't wear clothes. The biology of having...

What is extreme about suggesting that it is stupid to persistently draw women fighting Orcs and delving into dungeons in their underwear? Do you really think lingerie should have a +5 AC bonus? Or is that, I dunno, stupid? Nudity and skimpy clothes are not shameful, but stupidity is. Being...

I seriously do not think you have any idea what is and isn't offensive to women. Nakedness and depictions of sexuality are NOT automatically offensive to women. Consistently portraying women as stupid, as inadequately dressed and equipped for the jobs they are supposed to be doing or as...

Doesn't occur to anyone that bewbs on a bird is kind of silly, anyhow? Makes about as much sense as having them on a reptile. Hello, not mammals, ergo no mammary glands. Still, depictions of a harpy or a succubus are not actually in the 'stupid' category. Assuming you can get past the...

The issue is a bit more complex than that. I don't think there is any problem with material where adult men and women are consensually sexualized for the viewing pleasure of adults. The problem is when ONLY women are CONSTANTLY sexualized in nonsensical contexts that make them look stupid...

Exactly, and I am very tired of all female characters being portrayed as silly by default. Horse patootey. It is more difficult to find good examples of character art and miniatures for female fighters in combat who have realistic armor on and who are not being portrayed as silly.