sleepyCO wrote:A thought to start this thread . . . . . 3> Is there a noticeable difference in style between male and female module writers (i.e. men might be more "hack-n-slash" while women go toward more "role-playing")? Maybe the difference in later versions (3e/3.5e/d20) isn't as great as 1e/2e.Thoughts anyone?
In proper written and spoken English, "he" means "anyone" and "she" means "a specific person." I keep having to skip back up the page to see if I have missed a reference to a specific person in the text. Really annoying and needlessly PC. I have some female gamers in my group but I don't know anyone who was recruited to the game by a PC pronoun.
sleepyCO wrote:....a game run by a woman DM.....
FormCritic wrote:Specifically, I mean the removal of "he" as a standard pronoun in game publications.
ATOM wrote:Years ago you would be told to meet women in librarys etc...
sleepyCO wrote:A thought to start this thread . . . . . Since the Acaeum deals with mostly 1e and some 2e, I've wondered why there was such a large difference in the number of male and female players. For example, I do remember the D&D club in my high school had about 30 members and only three were women (this was 1978-80).1> Has the gap between the number of male and female players (and DM's for that matter) changed?2> Has anyone here been in a game run by a woman DM, and do you notice a style difference in the way she runs the game--or does that depend more on the module and less on the DM? (I never have been in a game with a woman DM, by the way, and have wondered about it.)3> Is there a noticeable difference in style between male and female module writers (i.e. men might be more "hack-n-slash" while women go toward more "role-playing")? Maybe the difference in later versions (3e/3.5e/d20) isn't as great as 1e/2e.Thoughts anyone?
Winterwords wrote:LOL. I was discussing this only last week in work with someone and said to her "Look at this company. Most women meet their partners at work or when they're out at the pub... and think about the kind of pubs we go to... and we wonder why we're single? No wonder we can't find anyone with any intelligence who is nice - we need to start trying to pull in book shops or libraries."
jasonw1239 wrote:Great Youtube clip...March of the Librarians... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td922l0NoDQ