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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wizard71" data-source="post: 9600279" data-attributes="member: 63273">Thank you for your response Charlaquin. While I appreciate the correspondence, I must confess I disagree with you here on several ponts. Please forgive my poor editing as that is not my strong suit but I will attempt to address my disagreements with your responses where applicable point by point.1) The point of femineity being a positive or a negative for the marilith is not the point I was making. According to D&D previous lore they exclusively had a feminine upper appearance. No marilith I have seen portrayed in print or art for the Dungeons & Dragons universe has ever been presented as anything other than explicitly female from the top up persepective has ever been depicted and it seems silly to do so now, especially if the main point is simply why not? It is a creature that does not have a reproductive system so the abyss does not need to make logical sense in its monsters and the Abyss has no desire for symmetry. Therefore there is no reason for the Abyss to spawn male mariliths just because.2) I think WOTC is afraid of drawing women because they take great pains to be risk adverse. Everyone is pretty bland. 3) Yes, the dryad and the medusa are both male and female which is silly. There was no reason for it. Why haven't other exclusively female antagonists like the banshee and the hags especially received this treatment?4) I am glad you agree with me that simply drawing male or androgynes characters would suck. I feel female characters, npcs and monsters should be represented. I also feel they do not need to be patronizingly drawn as male characters to be acceptable. Male  female, trans and non-binary characters all welcome in a fantasy setting.5) I am not afraid of women at all. Any person should be an equal antagonist in a fantasy setting where magic levels the playing field with brute strength. I think women can be just as dangerous as men without having to fall back on the male reliance of physical strength.</blockquote>

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