I've been somewhat scathing of these later appearing iconic bios. Kess's is actually OK... if she were a man. Born Lady Kessilandrie Anicia Vlastos, but runaway to pursue a life of adventure in the... boxing ring slash gladiatorial combat arena, Kess isn't in the least feminine. The scourge of low status men idolizing manly grrlbosses continues at Paizo. Heck, they pretty much always had it. So does WotC, and so do most of the publishers, for that matter. It's the scourge of the publishing industry outside of RPGs too, and of Hollywood in general. I don't understand why unlikeable, angry women being portrayed as if they were dickish men is supposed to be appealing, but it isn't.
I don't even have a problem with the occasional action girl. But make her feminine, or at least likeable. I mean, Xena Warrior Princess was at least fun, as was the first Gal Gadot Wonder Woman movie. Everyone my age likes Sarah Conner and Ellen Ripley. The idea that we're just a bunch of angry incels because we have an innate understanding of human that these spiteful woke mutants do not is retarded.
Anyway, other than that, the Brawler is a great class, a hybrid between the fighter and the monk, and as far as I'm concerned, the only suitable replacement for the monk that fits the oeuvre in which these fantasy stories fall. There's no reason to have David Carradine or Bruce Lee doing kung fu in D&D just because both were momentarily kind of faddish in the 70s when D&D was developed. The brawler is the unarmed fighter that D&D always needed, honestly. It took until 2015 to get it right. The original monk was launched in Blackmoor in 1975. That's 40 years of development. Sigh.
Anyway, here's the Wayne Reynolds iconic image, as normal. For funsies, I asked grok to convert the character to a male. Grok struggles with images sometimes though. Sigh.
This isn't a bad alternative. Heck, I should do more of these for more of these grrlboss iconics, actually.
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