Recent content by jayoungr

Ask and ye shall receive. (Video cued to the part in question.) Disclaimer: I'm parking this here purely in the interests of providing a verbatim, in-context quote. Not weighing in on what he says at all, because I am not touching that subject with a ten-foot pole.

I think this is aimed more at collectors than players.

I'd just like to add that neither of these pictures looks male-gaze-y to me, so making the cover illustration female was not the only way to avoid that aspect.

I submit that if expanding the options was really their first priority, they would have just made a regular mini that could be easily found and purchased. Not made it part of the "blind box" lottery.

It's a subtle lesson in "when to flee an encounter."

The main GM in the group who's not me has ADHD and tends to drop campaigns in favor of the next new shiny. I'd say they average about 5 sessions. However, he's aware of this and typically plans episodic adventures rather than ambitious long-term storylines. He has finished some campaigns...

Didn't even imply it. My position is that, because of the nature of this particular project, they should have respected the vision of the original artist in this specific case.

This: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/335769/My-Dads-Monster-Manual It does have replacement stat blocks for the new monsters, so it goes a little further than just replacing the lore. But James Introcaso's father's mind comes up with some delightful spins on traditional D&D monsters.

Count me as a vote in the "No, not really" column.

Good thing I never said that, then.

I feel like this is a case where the better approach would have been to be nice.

You might like this book--I just got my copy from Kickstarter, and it looks like they're taking late orders: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidhamrick/gamemasters-survival-guide-writing-5e-adventures It breaks down 5E monsters into something similar to the 4E descriptor categories and...

Apparently Elmore has edited his post, which suggests that the original outburst was due to surprise.

Like I said, there are already plenty of female warrior minis. And they can make as many more as they can sell. There is no reason it has to be THIS one. It doesn't even have to be this one within the 50th anniversary line--as others have pointed out, there are plenty of female characters...

Then we disagree. But forgive me if I feel like I should have a little more say in whether I feel "represented" or not. I never felt un-represented before, so this new mini does nothing for me. Call it marketing, then. Didn't say it was. I just think that if you're going to market yourself as...