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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliburn101" data-source="post: 7414886" data-attributes="member: 6802178">I answered your questions several times as you developed your line of inquiry, and had already really tackled what you asked in my post on sexism and racism. You actually got a lot more detail than  a simple 'no', but that this sort of thing isn't in Modiphius's offering on Conan was a very clear part of my answer you seemed to have missed or ignored.Frankly I wouldn't take a comment like "If anything, Conan/Barsoom should be a game with rules that actively encourage you to shed armor and fight nekkid!" as a serious suggestion for any game.As I have already stated, if that is what your are looking for, this isn't the game - perhaps Barbarians of Lemuria or Beasts and Barbarians for Savage Worlds would be closer to what you're looking for. But you should be aware that whilst the latter certainly has more of the elements you want, it has come under criticism for being sexist, and the author has seen fit to defend his artwork and writing choices. This is just one of the reasons I think having such elements in a game where you would like to encourage the subjects of that kind of portrayal to be players in it is a bad idea.Even if you can personally differentiate between a sexist portrayal of a genre cliché and a more equitable lurid portrayal, not everyone can. Moreover, you won't always get it right yourself and if you embrace the chainmail bikinis and loincloths of yesteryear then it is likely someone will be offended to one extent or another by it. I am fortunate that all my current games, and the majority of games I have run for the last 15 years or more have had one or more female players, and having been gaming in rpgs since they were invented, I saw the start of the hobby and the 100% all-male groups that played it year after year. That was the 70's of course and the 80's - when regarding women 'a certain way' was much more mainstream - effectively excluding them from play.Even now, the facebook Conan rpg communities and Google+ page for the game is overwhelmingly filled with guys - far more than for other fantasy rpgs. This is because of some of the pastiche and comic-book portrayals of women in the stories putting ladies off, or having steered them way from this sub-genre in the past. These later pastiches did and do not reflect the original stories, so having a game which does reflect the original stories is a good idea. Even Terry Pratchett in the Light Fantastic made a joke about the old chainmail bikini-trope of S&S, as it is such a cliché.In any case, that's all rather moot as far as Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of is concerned, as it has been published with the sexual and racial sensibilities of the 21st century and not the 1930's or the 70's, highlights the strong and physically capable female character tropes Howard created, and it is all the better for it.</blockquote>

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