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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8350397" data-attributes="member: 4534">I ran a fun campaign where I combined 19th century American ideas about women as the defenders of home & hearth with Aristophones' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata" target="_blank">Lysistrata</a>.  It was an all dwarf campaign and they were strict traditionalist with coverture, the legal doctrine whereupon a woman's rights and obligations are subsumed by their husband, in effect and the ability of "proper" women to participate in public life was severely limited.  Brewing was about the only occupation that both men and women could participate in as equals.  The dwarfs did take the idea of women being defenders of home & hearth both seriously and quite literally, as they were trained to fight and were the undisputed mistresses of siege warfare.  This is important later.  So I deliberately created the setting with the ugliness of sexism because I wanted to tell a particular story about a society of staunch conservative traditionalist having to come to terms with the necessities of changing due to both internal and external pressures.  The premise of the campaign is that the Grimké sisters, the most eligible bachelorettes in the mountain, send most of the men on a quest to gain their hands in marriage.  The PCs return from their quest to find that the women have seized the government building and are demanding both the end to coverture and the ability to participate in civil life.  After seeing the wide world for the first time while on their quest, the PCs now have to figure out how to balance tradition against the necessary changes for their society to thrive and grow.  I suppose I could have had the traditionalism of the dwarves expressed in a different manner.  But that wasn't the story I wanted to tell.</blockquote>

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