Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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I just noticed that the iconic party in the art for Carrion Crown consists entirely of female iconics. I think RoTRL was 75% female, but am I correct that this is the first ladies only adventuring party in a Paizo AP?
In any event, I wanted to give out a +1 to you good folks at Paizo. I remember back when the iconics were being announced that it was mentioned that having half of them be female would enable Paizo to have an AP in the future that featured an all female party, and here it is.
For some reason, at that time the idea of a ladies only party seemed...I don't want to say strange, but definitely novel and atypical. Now that it's here, I almost didn't notice it because I was so used to seeing these characters kick ass and take names; their gender is entirely besides the point. The Carrion Crown party doesn't feel like a gimmick, it feels like a part of the identity of the game. The fact that Paizo has refreshed the adventuring party in such a subtle way and made it feel like it's always been that way is gratifying.
Thanks, Paizo.
Yup and yay! We always put a lot of thought into who the iconics "going on the adventure" are and try not to double up characters from the previous path while still filling up all the spots on the old "fighter," "wizard," "cleric," "rogue" party build. So we knew we wanted Seelah - duh - and Feyja, since I didn't think there was going to be much of a witch element to the campaign and that was the one big horror trope I wanted to play up at every change (not a concern now that I've read "Ashes at Dawn" though). And then we needed a good arcane caster, but just used Ezren in the Serpent Skull AP, so we brought in Seoni. And then... well... that's about when realized we had kind of a Charlie's Angels thing going, and about the time we decided to kill the pregens out of the back (that section made us ship Pathfinder a day later SOOOO often) so repeating characters mattered a little less. AND we still needed a roguey character, and Sajan or Harsk didn't seem like a great fit for the theme, so we almost put in Imrika, but since Merisiel is James's favorite, she went in for a back-to-back tour of duty.
So yeah. We didn't go into this trying to hype Carrion Crown's party as our girl group. They just happened to be the perfect adventurers for the job.
Probably for the best too... guys scare easy, you know.
Awesome! I'd noticed the lack of guys in the artwork and was wondering if it was deliberate.
Maybe Professor Lorrimor was a playa. ;P