Your thoughts on female minis? + Nejavina freebie in your Library!

As I have probably said before, I love the One Ring RPG and this is why I am here on the Patreon from the start. These miniatures are Tolkien as far as I am concerned. now the original illustrator was Jon Hodgson for the rules and he had female armour spot on - as do you on here. elves and Rohan have proper attired ladies...Ladies going in to battle with enough chain mail to make a small handkerchief would last about 10 seconds in reality. So yes indeed finding suitable miniatures for female characters has been difficult.

Stepping up on soap box. (Please don't throw things). I was going to write something about being a female FRPG GM/player for the last 40 years and how it has marginally gotten better since the early 80s. And then I thought about it. Nope. Not better. Women are just starting to fight back. Try selling a gaming system or module under a female name. Rejected. Make the name masculine and the same submission is sold. For figs, I don't paint leg skin. I make them skin tight pants. Yep. I don't like the neckline then I paint a top on them. And I'm very glad to say I've never had to do this with one of TPGEOs figs. But it happens way too often. Discrimination is rife in gaming. And it's not just against women, but also people of color. Even in big cities. And especially at gaming conventions. I walk into one of them and get looked at like I'm a talking dog -- or someone's mother. I for one am glad the younger generation is speaking out. It's time the world accepted 1) that gaming is a legitimate hobby and not a perversion; 2) women are intelligent and creative; and 3) that a person should be defined not by how they look but their words and actions. Stepping off soap box. You may now proceed to throw things at me. (And I'm sure someone will).

I'm glad to see more folks producing minis of women that aren't weirdly sexualised. I'll admit, I was a wee bit disappointed to see that none of the human rangers were women, but I'm glad TPGEO is actively exploring the space of realistic, grounded women minis, and I'm hopeful for the future! It's certainly one of the reasons I continue to subscribe to this patreon.

I really respect designers who don’t go down the “nsfw for the sake of it” route. Those that help move the narrative away from over sexualisation of females are the sorts of people I’m happy to support and to share their art with my family

I would love to see variety in body size and type! It's honestly why I love dwarves, they're more chonky.

I love what you are doing with these.

I like them, as I usually like all the figures you make. And thank you for the monster hunter a female version would be epic

Peter jackson verson of Eowyn is the Cause of my favorite scene in that whole trilogy, so that covers my thoughts

However, the "wench" or tavern maid has been overly sexualised for too long as have all aspects of fantasy female characters. I get the witch magically making herself look more beuatiful but that doesn't mean sje is in a thigh slit dress showing off the side of her butt cheek. I would love to see more realistic aspects of such creatures and characters. There are some fantastic examples out there. I mean, why do they all have to be skinny? Why not a little fat? Why does every fighter or mage or cleric have to be model thin? Mix it up a little, same for men too

There is a time and a place for sexualised versions of characters, those times and places and based on what the character represents. The same can be said for males too. Certain lore would charterise the succubus as a sexualised object perverted by fiendish features, same goes the Incubus.

Realistic poses, appropriate clothing, real armor not chainmail bikinis. Adolescents should not lead the design team. I love what you have here!