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I can't speak for all women; that would be silly. I can say that I feel this way, and that every other female gamer I've ever talked to feels this way, and all the women posting in this thread who don't work for Genesys feel that way. That's all. I don't feel quite ambitious enough to...

I don't think adventurers need to look like couch potatoes. HOWEVER, a female fighter who looks like a supermodel or who is super skinny with huge breasts is completely hosed for stats, unless you postulate some kind of magical bonus that doesn't work the way normal physics and biology does...

Thing is, and I'm really not being sarcastic here, I'm glad SOMEBODY gets to have some sex-positive fun with their RPG's if they choose that as a consenting adult. That isn't, by itself, the problem. The problem is the social consequences when mostly just one privileged group of people (in...

Yes, I do. It makes me feel marginalized as a gamer when I see representations of female characters in our hobby sexualized by default, to the detriment of showing them as well rounded characters. I'm not saying that sexy art is bad or wrong, just that I don't want it to be the default...

The most recent books I've looked through (and facepalmed at) have all been Pathfinder. I don't *think* so. My specific criteria for gratuitous sexualization is that there is no good reason to be dressed in skimpy, sexy or revealing clothes/armor, and some good reason to be dressed in normal...

Point. Though you'd be surprised how fast nudity becomes boring or completely invisible when you associate it with church services, not sex. Also, most of the officiants? I guess if you get a thrill looking at mostly older, matronly or grandfatherly types, you'd be having tons of fun. :erm...

I did, and you have a point. Mine was mostly "game mechanics good, silly Ren Faire costume funnier."

To focus on the game aspect of what makes it work for me, what I want from the GM is quality storytelling, solid characters and well thought out world background and setting. Cliche story or setting tropes turn me off, especially if they're mostly about how this gender always does this and that...

Also known as an invitation to a sucking chest wound, a fatal gut wound, multiple limb amputation, a fast ticket to negative hit points, etc. If you say it's magic, reality can fly cheerfully out the window and you can have +5 Magnetic Boobie Cups Of Infallible Orc Arrow Attraction. Because...

Good. Great. Like I said, adult campaigns are really cool, and the BOEF is pretty good source material if you're running that. Which is awesome, but if you happen to be running a campaign that focuses on political intrigue, war, strategic alliances and betrayal, the sex stuff is useless...

If you like it, then it is appropriate for you and in your RPG source material. If I don't like it, then it is not appropriate for me and in my RPG source material. If you are underage, it is probably not appropriate for you and in your RPG source material. Which would make it an utter non...

Okay, point taken. If you are amused by silly stuff in your fantasy world, impractical clothes, cartoon physics or the cartoon physics of bewbies (yeah, they mostly don't work that way in the real world), you have every right to be. The issue is where Gamer A's rights end and Gamer B's rights...

No. Once again, you're not responding to what I actually said. The fact that our formative experiences and thus our reactions and feelings are likely to be different does not make either of us wrong, or bad. Bad is when we choose to invalidate or dismiss someone else's experiences because we...

Well, pretty much my response is what Umbran said. Yep. This. Porn is cool. Porn in my RPG source material is not so much, because it doesn't well serve the purpose it's supposed to be designed for. Eg, to actually be RPG source material. Because OMGBEWBIES may be sexy and stuff, but it...

I can't really tell you how to label yourself. I can only set my own boundaries about the labels I want applied to me, and explain why I feel that way. There are social consequences to using labels that can be perceived as condescending or derogatory. In small ways, the consequences of your...

It's not a sexual fetish, although it certainly can be. And there's nothing wrong with that; I'm very much pro-porn for porn's sake. Consenting adults should get to enjoy any form of sexual activity or depiction that they like with other consenting adults. The key word here is consenting...

I can not speak for everyone of course, but my personal criteria for believing that an image is gratuitously sexualized pretty much goes like this. Is it stupid for her to be (un)dressed that way? Is that boobaliciously crappy excuse for armor guaranteed to be a fast ticket to negative hit...

Without actually seeing the pictures I would specifically put in that category? Yeah, that does make it pretty hard to argue. Let me make it a little easier for you with two words: Frank Frazetta. Not all fantasy art looks like that any more, but he was one of the major first contributors to...

While I am still kinda creeped out by referring to adult women as if they were underage children, especially in a sexual context, this sounds like a much better marketing point than the original press release. Focusing on the diversity of your writing and coding team as well as the fact that...

Depends on what she's doing and the context. Naked while fighting a remorhaz under Arctic conditions? Yeah. Sexualized on purpose, because the nudity exists for no other reason than, BEWBIES. It's out of place, and it's kind of dumb and insulting to the viewer as well as the character being...