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Calceme by Bryan Syme
I recently featured some of Bryan’s depictions of female characters but more recently he released this excellent artwork of his “a Bard named slickback”
And I know what you’re thinking, he’s a bard… so of course. For that reason, I must stress that we must not let the myth that bards are always the empowered men of the party – or worse, that all bards are.
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(Meme art by Raymond Minnaar, meme by Alchememeist thank you to @elvashayam for identifying the signature)
Don’t let those stereotypes prevent your male characters from expressing themselves as alluring, sexual beings. Play a promiscuous warrior tank, an asexual bard, or a very super gay cleric.
It’s your game and I think we can all agree, it’s well past time that it dropped tropes and got a little spicy.
– wincenworks