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Those who don't care are typically the ones who are already getting things 99% their way. Eg, characters of their skin color are always in the majority. Characters of their gender are shown as strong heroes almost all of the time, and characters of the gender they like to look at are sexed up...

The problem is that the game, as it is currently, does not shy away from depictions of sexuality. Specifically it sexualizes almost all depictions of women, while men are consistently shown as strong, powerful, competent and appropriately dressed for adventuring. Sexualized images that depict...

Oh. You just finished reading the DaVinci Code? Hmmm.

I'm a writer, not an artist. But if I'm given a character to work with who happens to be male, Hispanic and bisexual, and a specific setting to tell a story in, damn skippy I can work with that, and I can do it compellingly enough to breathe life and believability into the scenario. Because...

So, you're saying that everything ever published by any gaming company sucks, because the artists and writers did not have 'freedom of expression' and were working in a shared-world project with guidelines and limits? I do not think you understand how professional publication works. If you...

And if you ask someone to describe a fantasy artist, that person will generally do so by referring to the artist as 'he'. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Yeah, you did.

Back at you. If you want porn, Google for it. If you want a world background setting that shows a solid 'slice of life' well enough for everyone to suspend their disbelief in a fantasy culture, tell good stories and be inspired by the characters, then paint that. Without gratuitous porn, and...

Translation: "Hi, I am a privileged cisgendered heterosexual male. I want this game to be all about my porn (even though it mostly already is) and I will complain vigorously if even a small percentage of it isn't in line with my own sexual preferences. Me me me, mine mine mine. I don't care...

Has Paizo put out a gnoll race book? If not, what would be the best source of detailed material, culture, etc, on this race? Looking for Pathfinder cosmology specifically.

Ginny, I'm sorry you had that experience; you sound like an amply qualified gamer geek. However, it is not unreasonable for the gaming community to encourage companies to present more balanced representations of women that do not focus so much on conventional physical attractiveness. I don't...

Stacie GmrGrl - He said he wouldn't use the word any more, and that the original intent was just to facepalm at the ignorance. Which we have now done, so that can be the end of it. Back to silly stuffs now.

Don't. It's a seriously abused trope, and it's annoying.

With you on this one. Because, this. Pretty much. At least that's my perspective on the thing. Not saying that a legitimate female badass can't be attractive, but she's not terribly likely to look like a pinup model. See, I don't even mind if a company is being honest about looking for...

Ask a a transgendered person if there is a difference. Seriously, in their community, there isn't. Okay, thanks. And it's really not about what I like; as I mentioned, we do have transgendered forum members participating here, and they're good folks.

OK, thanks for clarifying. It might be worth keeping in mind that some words can be pretty hurtful to the group they're targeting in almost any context. I'm not sure if you're aware, but "tranny" is considered a very derogatory, demeaning word by transgendered people. If you substituted the...

Totally depends on the context and the implied relationship, and on what others are being called. If someone refers to people as "Men and girls" the assumption is either that the males are adults and the females are minor children, or there is a power relationship being described. It would be...

Irrelevant, no. But in my opinion, gender should not be something that stops a hero from overcoming a challenge, or from facing that challenge in the first place. Because Lara Croft isn't male, and they wanted to tell this particular kind of story about that specific character. If it's handled...

Um. That is a huge amount of lose and fail right there. We have transgendered members here on ENWorld, and implying that they are not human is pretty hurtful. If you would consider the same implication about someone of a non white race to be horrible, it's not a good idea to make it about a...

Because females have an equal right to be the protagonists in any genre? You make many very good points, but this is actually one I disagree with. I like telling human stories that aren't automatically gendered ones, and when a story can be told that matters and has the same heroic impact...