Gloomhaven is a video game, based on a board game, with roleplaying game type elements, released to

Gloomhaven is a video game, based on a board game, with roleplaying game type elements, released to Steam in October 2021. The Scoundrel is a player character option in the game who seems to have the odd odd reversal of having pretty much only her boobsprotected by armor and the rest of her… wrapped really tightly in different colored bandages?

Here general appearance and trying to focus on her looking like a real world human woman with a modern haircut also kind of makes her stand out awkwardly in the turn order line-ups on screenshots.

It’s a bizarre change that seems to be a weird mix of trying to put a kind of alternative girl for guys who are into that in there, while trying to cover up everything to avoid being too up front about it.  It’s particularly bizarre given how she appears in the board game (the text of which emphasises her being human):

Based on the marketing, it appears she was definitely intended to be iconic for this production of the game, and while it’s always nice to have a female characters as the face…

It’s not so nice when they seem to be stuck in this cycle of “woman = boobs, boobs = woman” that invariably leads to them spending more time on her boobs than on the rest of the character combined.

Guys maybe just… think of women as people rather than as a transportation device for boobs?  It won’t hurt you. I promise.

- wincenworks

Image of the board game depiction taken from My Kind of Meeple’s guide.