Notice that all of the "made-up" characters are females? This is something that is bothering me a lot. I am not misogynist, but I believe the FF is simply making up these female characters to possibly get/keep female players into the game. Why would they do this? To make money of course!

Thalin and Dunhere are male I think.

Oh, rich said it before...i didn´t noticed.

Notice that all of the "made-up" characters are females? This is something that is bothering me a lot. I am not misogynist, but I believe the FF is simply making up these female characters to possibly get/keep female players into the game. Why would they do this? To make money of course!

Thalin and Dunhere are male...

Oh, rich said it before...i didn´t noticed.

Are you quite sure? It's not uncommon for many dwarf women to be mistaken for dwarf men. (It's the beards!)

We may never know.

As long as they don't make up a female dwarf hero. I'm ok with the made up chica heroes.

(and as I love to be nitpicking - aren't all these characters made up? )

Would be no problem for me if he is a girl...while it isn´t my girl.

Thalin and Dunhere are male I think.

If I'm not mistaken, Dunhere existed in the books

You´re right...

Yeah, I was just about to point that out. Dunhere has a quote that says "Dunhere, chieftain of the folk at Harrowdale, was at their head." So I guess the count is actually 4 to 1.

EDIT: Bah, nevermind. I replied before seeing the posts on the last page.

Using her with Desperate alliance would be a weird scenario. The only way I can personally see it working would be if one person was using an all spirit deck and the person playing caldera was using only her in the spirit sphere, or her and one other spirit character. There simply aren't enough spirit heroes for two players to be going monosphere spirit effectively.

So far I really love this hero. Just look at her ability as an advance of 4-8 resources at the cost of her actions during that time. If you finish the game within 4-8 turns (a good game) then you're looking at a good trade off.

I've already made one deck and played with her... but she died in turn two thanks to a shadow effect that caused an attack to become undefended.

Tolkien was writing at a time that gender roles were strictly defined. Women weren't fighting in WW2, certainly. Outside of Eowyn, which I am suspicious he felt super clever about killing the Witch King and gave her a fighting position for that reason alone, I don't think it crossed his mind at the time. I'm no expert, but I simply think that at the time of LOTR women didn't have place in Tolkien's war of the ring. This is archaic, and since I'm not a Tolkien expert I think I would've noticed if every hero outside of Eowyn was male a lot more than new female characters made by FFG.