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The scout is a squat middle aged dude crouched in a tree. The kilt wearing guy is fully clothed and armed, showing nothing. The grass skirt dude is probably the closet thing to "sexy" depicted here, since you can see his torso. His pose is not helpless, submissive or even sexually inviting...

This is not only hilarious, but actually relevant to how I run my own campaigns. No, I do not make my PC's write on their character sheets how much toilet paper they are bringing into the dungeon. We also refrain from discussing or (ugh!) roleplaying the details of how they use it. I think...

He grew up with those elder powers; his culture considered them friends and allies. The novels show how he progresses from essentially innocent and naive, but tainted by the essential inhumanity of Melnibonean culture, into someone who sympathizes more with the values and mores of human society...

Is fairly clear to me that they do not want to engage female gamers, except to hire a few as pinup models to help sell the product to male gamers. If they wanted to engage or even just not totally creep out, insult and alienate female gamers, they would cut out the "hot chick" crap and...

Didn't say he was my hero, just that he was a hero of a decently long running series of fantasy novels. And about as unfit as they come, both physically and emotionally/mentally. Personally I can't say I much like the guy. Elric did not kill his father and he had no siblings. His distinctly...

Never said any such thing. I said that a great many fantasy female character depictions show her as powerless or inappropriately sexualized or both. She is fairly likely to be wearing impractical sexy clothes or no clothes in situations where this is a *ridiculously stupid thing to do*. +5...

Unfortunately, the casting call is about women - excuse me, 'girls' - who can present well on video as "hot gamer chicks". No mention is made of these women, er, girls, participating in the game design at all. They get handed characters to play, and somebody does their costuming and makeup and...

I didn't look up YOUR sources, you mean. GoT is not my fandom, and I'm not super interested in seeing any more of it. Tried it, wasn't my personal cup of tea, moved on. I'm just not much of a media fan myself, with respect for the folks who are. I don't need to look very far to say that...

Disclaimer: I watched the first GoT and quit there, so I have no idea who these people are. I see two kinds of depictions here. The male imagery shows power. Muscles, fitness, strength, fighting, armor and weapons are the descriptors that come immediately to mind. Their expressions are...

Let me see if I can even begin to explain why a lot of people, men and women, are saying that the "sexy girl/hot chick" thing creeps them out and makes them feel uncomfortable, especially when it is brought into our own nerd/geek/gamer subculture. I have no problems with porn or sex work. None...

Honestly, I'm good with the porn. It harms no one. It's porn - it's sexual imagery, and there is no reason it should not exist. It's the former that has, IMO, much more serious social implications for how people should view and treat real live gamer women. Automatic knee-jerk sexualization...

Not so much seeing a lot of male depictions this way - for starters, they are much more statistically likely to be wearing clothes. Even when their bodies are shown, the message is not "look at this submissive, powerless, sexualized object to be gazed at and acted upon". The message is more...

In my perception, and I take full responsibility for the fact that it is my perception, it truly has not. I can't open a single RPG book or comic, or play almost any video game, without seeing a large number of sexualized female figures while the male characters are primarily presented as...

Why do you refer to adult women as "girls", or as "hot gamer chicks"? If you really believe that what you are presenting isn't about objectifying, judging, and making women feel like they are not accepted as normal participants in the hobby, then why not use more respectful language? I think...

Wouldn't expect you to. It's not worth compromising your professional integrity and reputation, either by being careless with what is told to you in confidence or by becoming associated with projects like this. Besides, I expect the reveal to come pretty soon anyhow, if they've tossed this...

Don't use insulting art. A female fighter wearing a chainmail bikini is a no-go; it's obvious that what she is wearing is designed for attracting men, not for actually fighting. It depicts her as an ornamental object with no power who is good for nothing but looking pretty. I'm not quite...

Don't use insulting art. A female fighter wearing a chainmail bikini is a no-go; it's obvious that what she is wearing is designed for attracting men, not for actually fighting. It depicts her as an ornamental object with no power who is good for nothing but looking pretty. I'm not quite...

I don't necessarily think books are their main target, though possibly they are trying to position themselves to snatch some of the tabletop market share that seems in dispute after WotC's poor management decisions dropped their sales considerably. I would not frankly be surprised if Hasbro cut...

Read the proposal more carefully. This is likely to be an essentially online venture, and to contain marketing angles that are targeted towards what they believe to be the overwhelmingly single young male gamer demographic, including MMORPG and video game players. I'm actually guessing...

I am a gamer. Not a *thing* to be stared at, not an object to be objectified, not a 'hot chick' who is somehow not really human and not a full participant or a real gamer. I would use much stronger language to state how deeply skeeved-out I am, and how angry I am at being treated like an...