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Why would someone that's the heir of both A Very Minor Duke and A Minor Baroness become A Adventurer?
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<blockquote data-quote="FrozenNorth" data-source="post: 8978791" data-attributes="member: 7020832"><p>I do want to raise an issue concerning the uncritical use of tables: when a person uses very old (40+ years) tables uncritically, they end up reproducing the sexism of when the tables were created.</p><p></p><p>In the OP, the character is the 5th child of the Duke and the Baroness, having 4 older sisters. You are uncritically assuming that the sisters cannot inherit.*</p><p></p><p>Since on the tables used, there seems to be a very high percentage chance that a character will be noble (much higher than the actual proportion the nobility represents in medieval society), the use of tables definitely gives the impression that the group is hostile to female PCs.**</p><p></p><p>*Interestingly enough, we know that women can inherit in this universe, since the mother is a Baroness. You could presume male-preference (a woman can only inherit if she has no brothers), but the simpler approach would be to recognize that both men and women can inherit and have the PC be 5th in line for the title.</p><p></p><p>** You could try to argue verisimilitude to justify male primogeniture, but arguing verisimilitude based on these tables would cause most people to dissolve in fits of laughter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrozenNorth, post: 8978791, member: 7020832"] I do want to raise an issue concerning the uncritical use of tables: when a person uses very old (40+ years) tables uncritically, they end up reproducing the sexism of when the tables were created. In the OP, the character is the 5th child of the Duke and the Baroness, having 4 older sisters. You are uncritically assuming that the sisters cannot inherit.* Since on the tables used, there seems to be a very high percentage chance that a character will be noble (much higher than the actual proportion the nobility represents in medieval society), the use of tables definitely gives the impression that the group is hostile to female PCs.** *Interestingly enough, we know that women can inherit in this universe, since the mother is a Baroness. You could presume male-preference (a woman can only inherit if she has no brothers), but the simpler approach would be to recognize that both men and women can inherit and have the PC be 5th in line for the title. ** You could try to argue verisimilitude to justify male primogeniture, but arguing verisimilitude based on these tables would cause most people to dissolve in fits of laughter. [/QUOTE]
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