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I thought Pathfinder was going to be a role-players dream – it turns out, I was wrong.

OK, it’s now very clear/obvious that the P-RPG will be catering to Powergamers, Minmaxers, Rules Lawyers, and WoW fanatics.

hell, I play WoW too- (So my problem is not with WoW - I love the game!)

But WoW is not D&D – it’s a video game.

D&D is a role-playing game.

Stop trying to mix the two –

If I want to play WoW, I can turn on my computer, and have a blast powering-up and destroying everything in my field of view.

If I want to play D&D, I’ll invite some friends over to hang out, have fun, laugh, and *role-play* (not see who can build the most powerful character, min-max everything, or argue over rules).

I’m all for over-powering through *supplemental* books, but when you make the *core* book overpowered you give the DM no choice but to run a power focused game.
Any player (whether a powergamer or not) in his right mind is not going to like all those pretty little power-ups, just house ruled away from him.

When the power ups are in *supplemental* form, you can just not allow that book --- “core book only” – The DM will get *much* less flack.

Are we going to see more Male character iconics?
To me the ratio is still WAY-WAY off.

I know the whole general magazine marketing drill - women on the cover of magazines sell more than men on the cover of magazines, yatta,yatta,yatta.
Putting hot chicks on the cover of magazines to sell more magazines is a marketing strategy and I don’t really (in general) have a problem with that.
If that’s why the skewed representation (4 women/3 men) - just let me know and I can deal with that.

If not;
I would just like a “realistic” representation of an adventuring party and a proper representation of pre-generated characters (the icons are used as pre-gen characters for all GameMastery modules).

D&D groups (D&D players in whole) are at best - 80% male and 20% female.
I would imagine if “D&D adventuring” were real; the ratio of adventures would also be at best 80% male and 20% female.

Please… I am just asking the folks at Paizo (or the powers-that-be, who decided on the 4 women/3 men distribution of iconics) on this one.
I’m really not interested in other posters using this post to flame/troll/debate how adventuring parties should/could/would exist with 90% women ----- This one is just common sense

BTW Paizo - the way the current women iconics are portrayed in the artwork so far is great!! (real adventuring clothes & gear- no chainmail bikinis).

I’d just like a proper representation/ratio.

Thanks for listening,

GG