More than 40 years later, the warrior from the iconic Dungeons & Dragons Red Box has a face.

One of Dungeons & Dragons' oldest promotional figures is getting a toy treatment that shows fans more than just a backside covered in leather armor and chainmail. The warrior battling the dragon on the cover of the 1983 D&D Red Box now has a face, and WizKids has rendered the dragon fighter as a large, muscular woman.

As revealed by ComicBook.com earlier this week, the figure can be found in WizKids’ D&D Icons of the Realms: 50th Anniversary set as one of 10 “secret rare” toys packaged inside random booster boxes; other elusive miniatures include characters from the D&D animated cartoon and both the Green Knight and Blue Wizard from the cover of the tabletop role-playing game’s core set box.

The renders shared with ComicBook show the warrior in her classic pose, with her shield on the left and her sword raised horizontally on the right. She's taken directly from the original illustration by celebrated artist Larry Elmore, sans the massive red dragon and golden treasure. More interesting is the front of the toy: the warrior sports the famous D&D ampersand (basically synonymous with the brand) along with fine detailing on her armor, belts, sword, and stoic face.

WizKids said the team made the depiction of the warrior as a muscular woman “intentionally and clearly,” likely aware that it would upset more retrograde players and those with a fierce loyalty to TSR canon. Elmore may have inadvertently provided ammunition for those people when she wrote on Facebook that she imagines the warrior as a man. She goes on to add that “what I love about D&D is that anyone can be anything they want in this game. Male, female, both, neither — it doesn’t discriminate. It’s a game of imagination and you can be and do anything you want.” (As noted by ENWorld, Elmore edited her post to remove the less charitable language from her initial reaction.)

The Red Box opened the door to many new players when it was released in 1983, as it included a version of the Player’s Handbook and the Dungeon Master’s Handbook along with dice and other materials to run the roleplaying game. Among the book and adventure illustrations that have come to symbolize the concept of D&D, Elmore’s warrior and dragon locked in battle recall a period before the rise of D20 in the 1990s and the current period of its dominance of tabletop gaming culture.

Wizkids’ D&D Icons of the Realms: 50th Anniversary set hits stores in July and is available for pre-order now from the toymaker’s website. Here’s to preventing anyone from getting upset that a female warrior has calves and thighs like tree trunks, echoing last month’s sad controversy over canonical women in Warhammer 40K’s Adeptus Custodes.