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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaladinX" data-source="post: 267333" data-attributes="member: 5424">Oh, dear, I guess I'd better jump on this as I'm one of the guys who's pushing more decent female characters. I'm Joe's fellow Scarred Lands developer, btw, and between the two of us we've helped put out all of the SL products for the past year and a half.Meerlah the bard is one of our signature characters, and the head of the demon-hunting Order of Silver is a completely kickass female paladin. I also put the all-female Sisters of the Sun, paladins dedicated to the goddess Madriel, into the Termanan continent. Nabila Silverheart, a half-elven sorceress from Mithril, is one of the POV characters in the Termana gazetteer as well. And not to forget Denev the earth-mother, the sole surviving titan, who is possibly the most powerful single being on Scarn right now (though she currently spends most of her time napping). Hmmm... lessee... Vangal's herald is a female manticora, Queen Geleeda is a cunning and deadly schemer, the big assassin's guild is led by a goddess-inspired woman, and so on. We're trying to keep women out of the damsel-in-distress mode, and also not limit them to chainmail-bikini-clad arm candy for the macho males (though I admit that we're sufficient gamer geeks not to pass up the opportunity to show a picture of a seminaked woman... hopefully we've got enough partially-clad male pictures to at least maintain a semblance of equality).Personally, I'm trying to steer some kind of a middle course, trying to create a diverse cast of characters, gods, titans and others, including characters of as many genders, races, religions and social outlooks as possible, without falling into the trap of doing it just because we're "Sposta". We're also trying to include slightly more adult material, not merely limited to our slightly racier artwork and, hopefully, treat our readers and players as if they're a little more sophisticated than the average adolescent hack-n-slasher.How successful we are depends on you guys, of course, and I hope that everyone on this thread now has a somewhat better grasp of what we're trying to do with the Scarred Lands. Nice job, Joseph...Anthony Pryor</blockquote>

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