[NobleNick]

Originally posted by Dancing Virginia: ...there are about 1/3 less female character pictures than male in IWD... it seems kind of unfair... I love/love/love the blonde with shoulder length hair, blue clothing, and a mace. She's making a great fighter/cleric, wearing my favorite color, and looks similar to me IRL...I think the portraits for the woman are absolutely gorgeous...

1/3 less probably is about how often they are used. Most players are boys/men. Seems like many of the boys think stacking their party with girls makes them gay. And some of the men have to worry about what their wives will think (that "from the neck down" thing, ya know, as well as some of the overly seductive voices and phrases). I have loaded all my parties initially 3 and 3. My current party, currently kicking butt in latter TotLM, is:

M DC Ranger[12?]/Cleric
M DC Cleric[13?]/Fighter
M DC Fighter[10]/Druid
F DC Fighter[9]/Thief
F MC Thief/Illusionist
F Bard

Yes, all men in the front, all women to the back. I am a male chauvenist pig. (Actually, my old party has two Female Fighters on the front line, destined to become DC Fighter/Mages, once I dust the party off and get going again.)

So, the blonde with the mace? I have her as a priestess or DC Fighter/Mage (forget which) in my old (pre-HoW) party. Hmmm... Have to talk to you sometime about posting a pic...

I identify with the tall, dashing, Pre-HoW, Paladin-type in plate mail. Problem is I don't resemble him much: Have the height (6'4"), but not the hair nor the nose. He is also in my old party, as a Pally, of course, and party leader.

Have you ever noticed how few of the female adventurers are shown wearing heavy armor? Especially some of the third-party pics make me wonder, "Ahem... By exactly WHAT method was she considering overcoming the enemy?" Have to do a quick check to make sure I didn't get into a porn site by mistake. That is one of the reasons Ms. Mace was so appealing: looks like she could wade in and dish out some pain...

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[ 10-26-2004, 03:43 PM: Message edited by: NobleNick ]