Lynn_Bodoni:
Some DMs, and some players, are incredibly sexist. These days, not so much, but I started playing in the early 80s, when a female gamer was a real rarity, and most of the female characters were played by guys, who generally played a woman that they wanted to date, that is, a perpetually horny, extremely attractive human, elf, or half-elf female.
It just goes to show that some guys don’t appreciate the beauty of a hulking half-orc woman.
So, while I know female players who had to play a female elf cleric of the goddess of magic (because chicks can’t be mages) or female halfling/gnome/ whatever-the-shorties-were-called-in-the-universe-for-the-day’s-game cleric of the god of commerce (who sounds suspiciously like Hermes in also being god of, uhm, lost items, messengers and politicians)
OK, I can maybe sort of see the wizard university not admitting women, or maybe even the laws of magic being tied to gender in such a way that women simply can’t be wizards, but are you saying that some DMs wouldn’t allow female thieves? That doesn’t make sense at all…
It doesn’t even make sense for a sexist! “I don’t want a female thief decked out in black leather; you can be a female cleric in plate armor.”
While I certainly won’t argue that skin-tight leather is bad, armor can be sexy too. In Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2 the female cleric does look pretty good in chainmail, for being, you know a PS2 image. Maybe not form-concealing plate mail, but its a start.
Zeriel:
I know I do.
…What?
So, would you like to meet my sister?
