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<blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 7124799" data-attributes="member: 92305"><p><strong>RUNNING GAMES IN ARGOS IV</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>ARGOSSEAN WOMEN</strong></p><p></p><p>-- See the "Chastity" post up-thread.</p><p></p><p>-- Women outnumber the men in Argos.</p><p></p><p>-- Women are charge with traditional Hyborian female tasks in cooking, baking, sewing, weaving, spinning, cleaning and the like. But, Argossean are also trained at arms and are expected to help hold the homestead against intruders.</p><p></p><p>-- When creating Argossean women characters, roll attributes normally but lean towards putting the higher rolls into INT, WIS, and CHA rather than the physical stats to reflect the differences between men and women.</p><p></p><p>-- It is not often, but some Argossean women do become respected blacksmiths, merchants, and have other traditionally male professions as well as careers in writing, music, mid-wiving, painting and other roles. Usually, there is some special circumstance, like a husband, brother, or father dying, leaving the female to run the family business.</p><p></p><p>-- Urban women tend to be pigeonholed more often that rural women. Many Guilds will flat-out not accept women as members.</p><p></p><p>-- Peasant girls at 8 years old begin to learn sewing, cleaning, tending livestock, from their mothers. At harvest, peasant girls join their brothers in the fields.</p><p></p><p>-- 8 year old girls of the craftsman or merchant classes are apprenticed outside the family, usually to a woman, but sometimes a man. They learn a trade in this fashion, but most find husbands before the apprenticeship is over.</p><p></p><p>-- 8 year old noble women are fostered out to other noble homes where they learn sewing, embroidery, manners, music, and other skills. <strong>But, the main goal of every young woman is marriage.</strong></p><p></p><p>-- Women are under the control of their fathers until they marry. Peasant women have more freedom of choice in who they marry, but usually have no (or small) dowry. Aristocratic women are subject to arranged marriages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Water Bob, post: 7124799, member: 92305"] [b]RUNNING GAMES IN ARGOS IV[/b] [b]ARGOSSEAN WOMEN[/b] -- See the "Chastity" post up-thread. -- Women outnumber the men in Argos. -- Women are charge with traditional Hyborian female tasks in cooking, baking, sewing, weaving, spinning, cleaning and the like. But, Argossean are also trained at arms and are expected to help hold the homestead against intruders. -- When creating Argossean women characters, roll attributes normally but lean towards putting the higher rolls into INT, WIS, and CHA rather than the physical stats to reflect the differences between men and women. -- It is not often, but some Argossean women do become respected blacksmiths, merchants, and have other traditionally male professions as well as careers in writing, music, mid-wiving, painting and other roles. Usually, there is some special circumstance, like a husband, brother, or father dying, leaving the female to run the family business. -- Urban women tend to be pigeonholed more often that rural women. Many Guilds will flat-out not accept women as members. -- Peasant girls at 8 years old begin to learn sewing, cleaning, tending livestock, from their mothers. At harvest, peasant girls join their brothers in the fields. -- 8 year old girls of the craftsman or merchant classes are apprenticed outside the family, usually to a woman, but sometimes a man. They learn a trade in this fashion, but most find husbands before the apprenticeship is over. -- 8 year old noble women are fostered out to other noble homes where they learn sewing, embroidery, manners, music, and other skills. [b]But, the main goal of every young woman is marriage.[/b] -- Women are under the control of their fathers until they marry. Peasant women have more freedom of choice in who they marry, but usually have no (or small) dowry. Aristocratic women are subject to arranged marriages. [/QUOTE]
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