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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 3026534" data-attributes="member: 21938">For the record, no, I don't think that all women would prefer a game like BR <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.&nbsp; That would be silly to suggest.&nbsp; However, it *is* inspired by a sub-genre of fantasy dominated mainly be women authors.&nbsp; Not all female fantasy authors write in such worlds (Sheri S. Tepper comes to mind), of course.&nbsp; Again, not suggesting such a thing. (I did say it was a daft idea in the subject heading!)Whilst the female gamers in the group I play with (D&amp;D 2) may tend towards auxiliary characters rather than front-line fighters, they certainly aren't averse to causing mayhem (unavoidable for the thief/cleric of Loki and fairly common for the gnome with the self-assembling pocket trebuchet and poisonous clockwork spying bee...).Actually, the idea of making the games *culturally* specific is an interesting, and less contentious, alternative.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr Simon, post: 3026534, member: 21938"] For the record, no, I don't think that all women would prefer a game like BR :). That would be silly to suggest. However, it *is* inspired by a sub-genre of fantasy dominated mainly be women authors. Not all female fantasy authors write in such worlds (Sheri S. Tepper comes to mind), of course. Again, not suggesting such a thing. (I did say it was a daft idea in the subject heading!) Whilst the female gamers in the group I play with (D&D 2) may tend towards auxiliary characters rather than front-line fighters, they certainly aren't averse to causing mayhem (unavoidable for the thief/cleric of Loki and fairly common for the gnome with the self-assembling pocket trebuchet and poisonous clockwork spying bee...). Actually, the idea of making the games *culturally* specific is an interesting, and less contentious, alternative. [/QUOTE]

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