For the past couple months I've been playing the beta of Card Hunter, a free browser based CCG/TBS (it just had its release, so the servers are somewhat overwhelmed at the moment). I'm pretty sure it was one of your posts that alerted me to its existence.
Anyway, it has the opposite problem: the stories (and meta story) are deliberate and thorough homages to classic table top RPGs, with all the stereotypes and cliches we had back then (it even has a damsel in distress adventure early in the game). Luckily, the story is probably the least important part of this game.
And the art is much better balanced. There are three races and three classes, and each combination has about a half dozen skins (skins have no effect on gameplay). One skin for each is free; of those 5 are male and 4 female which is about as balanced as you can get. The other skins cost money, but if you spent money in the beta or buy the Basic Edition ($25) you get 9 that are the opposite gender from the free ones.
And best of all, the women are wearing practical armor! Here are all the free skins: warriors, priests, wizards. The human wizard in the Basic Edition set is showing some flesh, but less than the male elf warrior there. I only wish they weren't so pasty white...
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Date: 2013-09-14 10:12 pm (UTC)Anyway, it has the opposite problem: the stories (and meta story) are deliberate and thorough homages to classic table top RPGs, with all the stereotypes and cliches we had back then (it even has a damsel in distress adventure early in the game). Luckily, the story is probably the least important part of this game.
And the art is much better balanced. There are three races and three classes, and each combination has about a half dozen skins (skins have no effect on gameplay). One skin for each is free; of those 5 are male and 4 female which is about as balanced as you can get. The other skins cost money, but if you spent money in the beta or buy the Basic Edition ($25) you get 9 that are the opposite gender from the free ones.
And best of all, the women are wearing practical armor! Here are all the free skins: warriors, priests, wizards. The human wizard in the Basic Edition set is showing some flesh, but less than the male elf warrior there. I only wish they weren't so pasty white...