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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Jeff" data-source="post: 3738822" data-attributes="member: 3687">This is an open letter to WotC about the 4e announcements…and girls. They’re like oil and water. Am I the only one to have noticed this?I DM for two different D&D groups. Among them, I have five savvy, smart and beautiful female players. Not a one of them have done anything except turn up their nose, smirk, or roll their eyes when presented with anything related to 4e.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> I mean, have you noticed how your videos and design articles have read since GenCon? Let me give you a recap: “Monsters. Kill. Powers. Kill. Monsters. Rooms. Technologically integrated (wtf?). More rooms. Never rest. Power. Monsters. Kill. Monsters. Power. Rooms.”Real nice.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   My girls like to give a good thrashing (um, in D&D) as much as the next guy. But with the talking down to we all got at GenCon and the overall ‘feel’ of 4e chasing away all the guys at my table already, at the very least you could throw the girls a rope here. I mean, while my players have already resolved to follow me and my 3.5 campaigns I have materials for over the next 21 years, if you had ‘got the girls’ with 4e we might have been looking forward to it!Imagine: all the girls sitting around my table folding their arms refusing to play unless us guys upgraded. Hell yeah we’d shell out! But you’re doing nothing for us.“Characters get alternate sources of power”.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />  Good job, real sexy. Geez, who’s writing this stuff? I mean, WoD started getting the girls, late 2nd edition D&D drew them in, and then 3e D&D kept them. The launch of 3e had iconic named characters with personality (and fashion-plate sketches to boot), evocative names in the rules, and articles about the types of stories and intricate characters you can create.With 4e all you’ve done is tell my female players they’re too dim to create effective fighting machines so you’ll redesign everything for them. The clinical approach to encounter design and monsters and rooms and killing and monsters and killing and rooms? Yeah, that’ll get them interested.So, just a word of warning, you’ve already lost my girls. I haven’t seen any other female players jumping hoops about 4e either, and if you didn’t notice the wonderful, numerous influxes of female attendees at GenCon, you DO have another buyer base to choose from. It’s like the 70’s all over again. It’s OK, WotC, go talk to the girls. They won’t bite.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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