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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 654464" data-attributes="member: 158">I'll tell you the problem I have with Avelanche Press.1. All but three of their product line has a woman on the cover, in a state of undress. Showing skin has never bothered me; showing more than a Victoria's Secret model however does.2. Half of those women in question have had a variation of the same open-legged, "come and get it" pose.Evidence:<a href="http://www.avalanchepress.com/line_d20Defiant.php" target="_blank">http://www.avalanchepress.com/line_d20Defiant.php</a><a href="http://www.avalanchepress.com/line_d20CelticAge.php" target="_blank">http://www.avalanchepress.com/line_d20CelticAge.php</a>The "Come and get it" menu:-----------------------------------------Jade and SteelThe Little PeopleDoom of OdinVlad the ImpalerEndless SandsAztecsEither the artist or the art director seem to have a one-track mind.As a consumer, it bugs me, and keeps me from buying. In fact, it turns me off of buying ANY of their product line, because I have to wonder if they use this much effort to differentiate their material from the rest of the pack, how good is that material really? Is it all really flash over substance?As a gamer, it embarrasses me to show this and expect non-gamers to see it as anything more than titillation. I refuse to show this kind of thing to a co-worker and say, "this is what gaming in the Viking Age is to me." Or, "This is the kind of images evoked by a game set in medieval Europe."It's also why I don't buy Boris Vallejo, incidentally. The only thing I ever owned by him was a Dragon Magazine cover. As someone earlier said, it's not fantasy to me, so much as it is a nude photo stuck in front of a fantasy backdrop.But that's just my opinion.</blockquote>

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