Like, "warlock" literally means "male witch or sorcerer".

I haven't played DnD since the 80s, but I don't remember it only being stuff like "warlock" or "monk", but I guess it was. 🤷‍♀️

I opened it up, saw that it was meant for men, and closed it, again.

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I think I got a bearded dwarf, or something. Was expecting more an elf, witch, or human.

Maybe dwarf but not bearded or anything. It just assigns a deterministic race, class, background and some stats. Nothing about any class or race has to be any particular gender.

I guess the boys always made sure I had a cute-sounding character. Can I nudge the algo toward something less overtly martial?

It's just deterministic based on key, so it's just random for everyone. Random, but deterministic. You could look for a character you want by generating key pairs and checking the outcomes. Kind of like mining. Must be a language thing because nothing about any of the adjectives here are inherently male.

The material is all loosely based on player handbook 2014.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/species

You mean, like the character descriptions?

Just all the DND books out there. Warhammer too.

Not just for men at all. You can be anything you want to be.