Ignoring the race choices and the modernism and the complete lack of any traditional aspects of D&D, it’s still baffling. Let’s imagine this was an ad for a play or a fashion line or a graphic novel or something where you can ignore the parts that are jarring with what the product it’s selling is (maybe was, at this point): the issue is that she’s dressed in a sexy way, her body is nice and she’s in shape so she’s presumably supposed to sell something to either black or Indian (depending on how you read her, racially) men who want to fuck her or black or Indian women who want to be her. Sensible enough, right? Kind of odd for D&D, which has a traditionally more white and maybe Asian audience, but like I said, it could be fine for other products…
Except that then she has that weird angry/crazy/miserable expression on her face. If you told me this character was supposed to be demonically possessed, I’d say that sounds right. And of course, it’s much harder to sell that as “the woman you want to [be/fuck].” What she really gives off is “stripper who finally snapped.” It’s an ad that genuinely has no target audience.
Ignoring the race choices and the modernism and the complete lack of any traditional aspects of D&D, it’s still baffling. Let’s imagine this was an ad for a play or a fashion line or a graphic novel or something where you can ignore the parts that are jarring with what the product it’s selling is (maybe was, at this point): the issue is that she’s dressed in a sexy way, her body is nice and she’s in shape so she’s presumably supposed to sell something to either black or Indian (depending on how you read her, racially) men who want to fuck her or black or Indian women who want to be her. Sensible enough, right? Kind of odd for D&D, which has a traditionally more white and maybe Asian audience, but like I said, it could be fine for other products…
Except that then she has that weird angry/crazy/miserable expression on her face. If you told me this character was supposed to be demonically possessed, I’d say that sounds right. And of course, it’s much harder to sell that as “the woman you want to [be/fuck].” What she really gives off is “stripper who finally snapped.” It’s an ad that genuinely has no target audience.