Quote from: David Johansen on May 11, 2024, 10:31:55 AMWell, my daughter and her friends play, so that's a data point.  The nice purple haired lady down the street runs D&D at the boys and girls club.  There's a social aspect that has changed substantially since the eighties.  I've known guys who absolutely don't want girls at the table.  Generally they're guys I don't want at the table.

Yep, it became popular, it became cool and presto! now more women want to play, and change it so it's nothing like the thing that became popular.

I wonder: Is it okay for women/girls to want to play away from men/boys? Would those who say yes want those same women/girls at their table?

Why isn't allowed for men/boys to have their own sex segregated spaces anymore?

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Quote from: rytrasmi on May 09, 2024, 03:30:17 PMIt's obviously a man. No self-respecting woman would wear that outfit.

I think it's the stance more than the outfit that makes the figure look unfeminine. The stance is what I judged most for why I interpreted the original image as a man. I think posed differently, even in the same armor/clothing, no one would have commented. Here's a similarly-dressed mini:



https://ironwindmetals.com/index.php/categories/cat-battletech/cat-bt-rgm/product/fantasy-player-character-03-056/category_pathway-2

There have been lots of minis in women fighters in armor. Especially since there's little detail in the face possible, the two main ways to signal being a woman are (1) a prominent bust, and (2) the pose/stance.

In the spirit of arguing on the internet, that's a totally different outfit. There are way more differences than similarities.

One is a white cloth or silk tunic over a maille skirt, with buff white seal skin boots and a lapis or shell encrusted dome helmet.

The other is an oily hare-fur loincloth with some kind of hardened sooty pig-leather cuirass, accessorized with a cheap horn helmet stolen from a Wagnerian prop closet.

The artist himself has said it's a man, but of course Jhkim will argue over meaningless shit to try and score a win for the "no-truth-but-power" side.

Quote from: Crazy_Blue_Haired_Chick on May 11, 2024, 10:17:03 AMAlmost certaintly! I highly doubt that this will be a best selling mini so they might as well get their money's worth through other means.

It's a "chase" rarity mini so it'll be highly sought after regardless by hardcore collectors.  Admittedly, I only follow modern D&D prepainted minis casually now but this is the first time/set I've seen Wizkids introduce the wretched "chase" rarity over from their clix lines into their D&D stuff.  It's disappointing as it pretty much means that all the figs from the D&D 80s cartoon that I'd like to have picked up will automatically be $50+ USD instead of the more typical $15+ for rares.

Well, my daughter and her friends play, so that's a data point.  The nice purple haired lady down the street runs D&D at the boys and girls club.  There's a social aspect that has changed substantially since the eighties.  I've known guys who absolutely don't want girls at the table.  Generally they're guys I don't want at the table.

Quote from: yosemitemike on May 11, 2024, 12:14:33 AMSo, this is the main book?
https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/380657/Clement-Sector-Third-Edition?manufacturers_id=3565

Yes, that's right.

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Quote from: cavalier973 on May 09, 2024, 08:22:37 AMAlso, why are we not getting a miniature of the adventurers on the front of the Moldvay and Cook/Marsh boxes?

It would cause less contreversey that way.

Think this might be a case of rageclicks for attention?

Almost certaintly! I highly doubt that this will be a best selling mini so they might as well get their money's worth through other means.

Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 11, 2024, 07:59:40 AMI never understood classifying Darkman as a superhero movie. It's like saying Evil Dead 2 is a superhero movie. Kinda, sorta, maybe if you squint and broaden the definitions to their maximum.

I'd call it straight-up pulp, like The Shadow or The Spider.

Superheroes sprang up out of the pulps, but soon became their own distinct genre.

The pulps were the incubators for a lot of 20th century genres: superheroes, sci fi, horror, fantasy, men's adventure, and so on.

Quote from: Brad on April 24, 2024, 11:28:46 AMWhy don't I believe a single fucking word of this?

Because it's transparent bullshit.  Only someone who isn't the hobby and doesn't know anything about it would believe a word of this.  Girls didn't participate because, for the most part, they didn't want to.  It's pretty much the same today.  I rarely get female players on Roll20 even though anyone can sign up and I often don't know the sex of the player before they start playing because people are using screen names.  The idea that 40% of ttrpg players is bullshit on the level of the claim that half of the readership of American super hero comics are women.  It's not true and everyone knows it's not true. 

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Quote from: Man at Arms on May 10, 2024, 05:35:21 PMWow.  That's very telling.

Mainly this is due to lack of advertising.

No one is going to buy something they do not know exists..

I don't usually do literal ads for my games, though occasionally publishers do. In this case Mad Scribe spent a lot on advertising, but ironically there was some kind of error and the ads did not go out, so all of BoF's success was purely on my own social media name recognition.

Quote from: yosemitemike on May 11, 2024, 05:43:49 AMI'll believe that WotC is going to release older editions under creative commons when I see them actually do it.  Until then, I am skeptical.  They have said that the new version will be released under a creative commons license but they haven't actually done it. 
 

That's exactly what I said in the video. Releasing the older editions to creative commons is a minefield for them.