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    Sexism in your campaign settings

    I realise the way I phrased that left it open to misinterpretation. In general men and women take different approaches to situations. There are exceptions (in both directions) to any instance I might give, but there are generalities that can describe difference between sexes. If you don't...
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    Sexism in your campaign settings

    In my experience most male DMs (including me) fall into one of four traps: 1. Women Are Invisible - In this kind of game the players never see women anywhere. Every person, or nearly every person, they hear about or they talk to is male. Every ruler is male, every villain is male, every...
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    Sexism in your campaign settings

    Eowyn is certainly the victim of sexism and overcomes it. ("I am no man!" *slice*) I think this disproves the notion the middle earth is wholly egalitarian, and shows that Tolkien was aware of and sympathetic to the plight of women.
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    point buy

    Just my experience . . . - in my campaign we have been using 32 point buy; no vanilla characters because everyone has a very different idea of what is a good way to spend points (but even if there were, abilities don't make the character) - unlike the many games I ran with dice generated...
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    What turns you off in a purchased adventure?

    Things that turn me off: 1. Ego from the author as to how the module is used. This was quiet common in 1st edition. (Gygax was notorious for telling you what you were allowed to do with HIS module) 2. Plot that is so dependant on things (places, events, NPCs) that make it near impossible to...
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