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I was just curious if anybody had any thoughts on how feminism has affected and influenced fantasy role playing games, especially a Dungeons and Dragons type game. In my opinion I believe the new 4.0 D&D is partially a failure to do feminist influence. No half orcs because it suggests rape. Before we just had to deal with the foolishness of having one page start every sentence with 'HE' and the next page 'SHE' for the core books, which to me was very annoying. Why can't it read 'The character', or 'the adventurer' ( I guess because it's easier to print 'He' and save money on publishing costs.)

To me the idea that you can't play a half orc because it suggests rape is just lunacy, but it's alright to chop up people with sword? What if in the D&D world the creators decided to just make everyone asexual? Then you don't have to worry about sex and you can change your books from He/she format to an It format. Hey that's a pretty good idea, I might have to go call the makers of D&D now.

Is there really even a place for feminism in the fantasy game market, where all of the different sexes are equal? What do you guys think?

I would propose a change to the alignments, first of all I think they should get rid of all good alignments. Think about it? Who in the real world is actually good? Humans are just different shades of evil and corruption, even so called goodie goodies. The alignments would progress like this; Uncorrupted ( neutral ), Neutral evil, Lawful evil, and Chaotic evil. With most people falling into the Lawful evil category, meaning they would do more evil acts, but they might get caught and punished. I think this would streamline game play and open the doors for people to play Paladins who could not previously play them, because they have no idea how to be good.