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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 8148592" data-attributes="member: 944">I think this was more product of the era than any sexism on Gary's part. Very few women wrote games back in the day and Lee is normally in the US a man's name. FWIW Kim Mohan got the opposite opprobrium and a some nasty innuendo as well  and he's male. As often said the past was a different country.The thing to understand is that prior to the Internet , getting information about people was actually hard, there was no simple way to determine gender or anything else about someone without a lot of work. So people just guessed and occasionally got it wrong. These day, there is a lot less excuse and stuff like the current Twitter furor over Cyberpunk's Mike Pondsmith require deliberate ignorance.In that world  while it seems packed with sterotypes, the old Oriental Adventures was well ahead  of  its day well researched, written by ethnically Asian scholars with expertise.I also  think the level of research she did  plus updates in Land of the Rising Sun may surprise people.  Lee put a lot of work into it and its going to be quality writing Mechanically Chivalry and Sorcery is an old school high complexity game, not my cuppa but some here may like it. It's good though.All that said some RPG manuals set in Asia or NotAsia  for the English market by authors from Asia would be pretty welcome as would other books from other nations made on the same grounds.</blockquote>