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When a dame's gotta go, she really gotta go.I'd say this could be seen as a pretty resounding response to the original question.On the one hand, some of the poses and costume designs bug me. That damn "knees bent inwards" thing on hardened warriors/soldiers...
On the other hand, I really want that Cruz miniature. Bad. Ass.
Oh DAMMIT why did you say that? Now I can't stop seeing it in that pose whenever it turns up! D:
I think we need more female minis, actually.
Oh DAMMIT why did you say that? Now I can't stop seeing it in that pose whenever it turns up! D:When a dame's gotta go, she really gotta go.I'd say this could be seen as a pretty resounding response to the original question.On the one hand, some of the poses and costume designs bug me. That damn "knees bent inwards" thing on hardened warriors/soldiers...
On the other hand, I really want that Cruz miniature. Bad. Ass.
Mwahahahahah!
The cavalier, a cavalier, your cavalier...
Which is why I said:
"but it avoids having to slap an indefinite article or race name whenever you want to use a pronoun."
My point is, if you're going through the trouble to avoid gender-specific pronouns, you may as well use "you" instead of "a classname, the classname, your classname."
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Airport Security Officer: "But every once in a while...it's a classname. Of course it's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a classname... always use the indefinite article: a classname, never your classname."
My point is, if you're going through the trouble to avoid gender-specific pronouns, you may as well use "you" instead of "a classname, the classname, your classname."
And I quite like the use of 'you', I'd be on board with that for sure.
okay so there are 7 core races, and 11 core classes. If you were to make every combination of class and race, that'd be 77 miniatures, and if you made one of each combination of class, race, and gender, that'd be 154 miniatures, which is almost 3 full sets from the pathfinder battles line. That amount of diversity is not easily reached, and even if it was, someone would still be b%$&@ing that there's no tieflings or how theres no ninjas or how there aren't mounted versions of these characters. Honestly, (and if paizo isn't listening anyone who agrees should pass this on) I think the best compromise would be to have x amounts of pcs for each set (lets say like 5-8) and before printing begins, have a big poll to find the most requested race/class/gender combination. They could even have a character design contest and have people vote on their favorites out of those. Better yet, rather then squeezing pcs into the sets, why not make a "heroes" line with packs of three requested characters. (like the new white dragon evolution set)
packs could look something like this...
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That isn't unreasonable or sexist at all. If I am playing a hulking, male barbarian, it's perfectly reasonable for me to want a mini that accuarately represents him instead of using the iconic female barbarian and pretend it doesn't have breasts.
Indeed! One should be able to use minis and avatars that accurately represent oneself in all types of games. I assume that, since you clearly understand that, you're a strong supporter of ensuring there are more female avatars in video games, female player pieces in board games, etc.
In any case, the fact that an iconic character has a gender doesn't mean that there's any dearth of Pathfinder-branded male barbarian minis for a player to use. And in fact, a quick search of the Reaper site shows that of the five Pathfinder barbarian minis available there, four are male.
And if you want to use pre-painted plastic, the half orc barbarian from pathfinder battles: heroes and monsters is a damn good mini.