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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4037064" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>In most of my races, I go with 3e's egalitarian gender baseline, because it's more fun and allows more options. But depending on how much I look into the culture of the various races, the specific tendencies differ.</p><p></p><p>For instance, most of my dwarf societies tend to be very patriarchal. Your father is the head of the clan, your lineage is based through your father, etc. The females become important in a defensive role (all dwarves are still warriors!), the males become important in an offensive role (expanding dwarven territory), and most are very happy with the arrangement because it divides the labor up nice and neatly and dwarves don't take to changes in tradition very easily, so the idea of a "women's lib" movement for dwarves would be met with horror and suspicion from almost all dwarves.</p><p></p><p>Of course, this allows the great "expelled from my village" backstory for the female dwarven warrior in the game!</p><p></p><p>My elves are very communal. They don't mate for life, or for more than an evening, taking delight in a variety and variance of many partners of many different species and races, delighting in the romance of the moment. Pregnancy rarely occurs in females (it is tied to the cycles of the moon -- they're only fertile when the moon is new), and when it does, the children are not raised by a family, but by the entire community (mostly, that is, the elders). </p><p></p><p>My orcs tend to be matriarchal. The males are expendible troops, the females are the true constant authority, and orc tribes are based on a mother's daughters, not on a father's sons. The females tend to be larger and more obese, living the 'high life' off of the tribute the males bring. The males are more ostentatious, displaying wealth and power for the delight of the ladies, who adore such things. Thus every orc-king is actually just trying to impress the fattest woman of the tribe with how brutal and bloody he is. The women in the tribe have their wealth measured largely by fecundity, and so a barren orc woman is very shameful, but they also don't fight much, being largely in a position of breeding as much as possible. This is why most half-orcs come from orc women and human men -- sometimes the captives will be used as baby-makers, in the hopes that their bastard-spawn will still be presentable as children. Orc men largely find human women to be distastefully thin and sickly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 4037064, member: 2067"] In most of my races, I go with 3e's egalitarian gender baseline, because it's more fun and allows more options. But depending on how much I look into the culture of the various races, the specific tendencies differ. For instance, most of my dwarf societies tend to be very patriarchal. Your father is the head of the clan, your lineage is based through your father, etc. The females become important in a defensive role (all dwarves are still warriors!), the males become important in an offensive role (expanding dwarven territory), and most are very happy with the arrangement because it divides the labor up nice and neatly and dwarves don't take to changes in tradition very easily, so the idea of a "women's lib" movement for dwarves would be met with horror and suspicion from almost all dwarves. Of course, this allows the great "expelled from my village" backstory for the female dwarven warrior in the game! My elves are very communal. They don't mate for life, or for more than an evening, taking delight in a variety and variance of many partners of many different species and races, delighting in the romance of the moment. Pregnancy rarely occurs in females (it is tied to the cycles of the moon -- they're only fertile when the moon is new), and when it does, the children are not raised by a family, but by the entire community (mostly, that is, the elders). My orcs tend to be matriarchal. The males are expendible troops, the females are the true constant authority, and orc tribes are based on a mother's daughters, not on a father's sons. The females tend to be larger and more obese, living the 'high life' off of the tribute the males bring. The males are more ostentatious, displaying wealth and power for the delight of the ladies, who adore such things. Thus every orc-king is actually just trying to impress the fattest woman of the tribe with how brutal and bloody he is. The women in the tribe have their wealth measured largely by fecundity, and so a barren orc woman is very shameful, but they also don't fight much, being largely in a position of breeding as much as possible. This is why most half-orcs come from orc women and human men -- sometimes the captives will be used as baby-makers, in the hopes that their bastard-spawn will still be presentable as children. Orc men largely find human women to be distastefully thin and sickly. [/QUOTE]
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