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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3534852" data-attributes="member: 48692">Just out of curiousity, what about a setting where female characters are second-class citizens in only some parts of the world?  In my own Greyhawk writings on Canonfire, places like Furyondy, Onnwall, Ahlissa, Northern Aerdy, and Sterich either do not allow women the same civil rights as men, or simply oppress them in with social convention rather than official written law-think of the writings of the Brontes or Kate Chopin about women in Victorian England.  Other lands such as Geoff, Greyhawk, Sunndi, Celene and Veluna essentially treat women as equals, and they are as likely to be in positions of power as are the men.  However, even in these lands there are some gray areas-women might not be allowed to join a mercenaries' guild, for instance, or be allowed into certain bars or taverns.  Conversely, women who prove themselves to be Joan of Arcs, Boudiceas (I know I spelt that name wrong-my apologies) or similar to many of the early and medieval women church leaders and thinkers, they can break the mould.  Dwarves and orcs are more oppressive of their women, elves and halflings are not.  As such, the actual status of women in the setting is a hotchpotch of different attitudes and beliefs, some enlightened, some not.  There are some times you need to break the mold, but there are other times when you don't have to deal with any of that crap.  Having such an uneven, disparate approach to the setting is, in my mind, much more believable and interesting than simply imposing a one-size-fits-all solution.  Would something like that be more acceptable to female gamers, than making everyone arbitrarily equal?</blockquote>

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