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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 6275482" data-attributes="member: 6680772"><p>Moldvay uses "he or she". Mentzer as a whole avoids sentence constructions that required gender terms, helped by having the books written specifically for players and DMs respectively, allowing him to use "you". When it can't be helped, he uses "his (or her)". Also unlike AD&D, the level titles in B/X and BECMI have both male and female versions.</p><p></p><p>On one hand, I think OD&D could be cut some slack on the gendered language front, since rather than a mainstream RPG aimed at an inclusive audience, it's really more of a proto-RPG expanding on miniature wargames, particularly on Chainmail. In this idiom, "men" referred to miniature units, rather than the specific sex of characters or players. Thus it's use of goblins and other humanoids, in contrast to non-humanoid monsters, such as dragons.</p><p></p><p>OTOH, some of the material in the mid- to late-70s was mind-bogglingly, facepalmingly, head-shakingly sexist. Not at all surprisingly, considering the pulpy sources the early creators were working from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 6275482, member: 6680772"] Moldvay uses "he or she". Mentzer as a whole avoids sentence constructions that required gender terms, helped by having the books written specifically for players and DMs respectively, allowing him to use "you". When it can't be helped, he uses "his (or her)". Also unlike AD&D, the level titles in B/X and BECMI have both male and female versions. On one hand, I think OD&D could be cut some slack on the gendered language front, since rather than a mainstream RPG aimed at an inclusive audience, it's really more of a proto-RPG expanding on miniature wargames, particularly on Chainmail. In this idiom, "men" referred to miniature units, rather than the specific sex of characters or players. Thus it's use of goblins and other humanoids, in contrast to non-humanoid monsters, such as dragons. OTOH, some of the material in the mid- to late-70s was mind-bogglingly, facepalmingly, head-shakingly sexist. Not at all surprisingly, considering the pulpy sources the early creators were working from. [/QUOTE]
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