From SylvainR: D&D DEI Heroes (35 points)

Here is a party of heroes for D&D. When my daughter asked me to teach her friends and her how to play D&D a couple of years ago, she made sure I would use the proper pronouns when addressing some of the players. I am of the opinion that DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) measures are good tools to address some obvious inequities in society but I am not here to debate, I just needed to give some context about this batch of miniatures. My goal was to have in my D&D collection 4 different heroes per class, so 4x paladins, 4x rangers, 4x barbarians, etc. and to have diversity in mind, so eventual players could find a character that suits them. Let's see how things went.

 

Here are two paladins, one is queer. I opted for purple as the distinctive color of the paladin class, so I can more easily identify the characters on the playing surface.

 

Two female rangers (dark green), one Elf and one Halfling. This brings gender and body type diversity to the class. In each class, half the heroes are women. I still feel very amateur at painting faces

 

Two female rogues (grey). The newer editions of D&D propose a race called "tiefling", which is basically a half-demon, half-human creature. Crusty me thinks this goes totally against the canon established by the Lord of the Rings and the original version of D&D, but young players just love these new options. My daughter's character was a humanoid mushroom eating fermented barley...

 

Lastly, a female barbarian (brown), to even up the male/female distribution in this class. Considering the rear view of the mini, I must admit that some green putty could have been added...

Points claimed:

7 x 28mm foot figurines at 5 points each = 35 points

Total = 35 points

Thanks for reading!

 Cue the DEI debate in the comments in 3, 2, 1....

Love the female adventurers Sylvain, lots of character (and booty in one case) showing.  I think the halfling ranger is my fave.  Very nice basing too.  Peter