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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 8952203" data-attributes="member: 891">Sounds like they were Witch World readers. That was a popular fantasy series from Andre Norton (I think) in the... I think 1970s? It was among some of the first fantasy fiction I'd ever read. I was exposed to both that and Lord of the Rings around the same time. In one women are major characters with a lot of depth alongside equally well written male characters. In the other women are cardboard boxes that only sometimes had names, and the men are barely any better. Yet both authors had great world building.For me it had the side-effect of insisting on only reading books by women authors for about a decade (I was a teenager... my choices back then were always over-dramatic and kinda dumb) - until I realized there were men who could make characters and women who couldn't by finally giving in and trying to read some guy named Robert Jordan (who was a bit thick on Soap Opera, but he was amazing when I first discovered him) and watching as one female author I was reading started to just rewrite the same characters in all of her books that were essentially obsessed with being women watching gay men go at it... (yeah... it was really bad...)But yeah - Witch World on the other hand was really fascinating. But I'd have never dared put a restriction like that on a gaming group where players want to play the things they want to explore.Witch World was also one of those Fantasy novels from that era where the fantasy had sci fi in it. I forget exactly but there was one 'we have space ships and laser guns' power somewhere in that world.Pathfinder's Golarian setting does an interesting job of using that old tactic of having Sci-Fi insert itself into the Fantasy.</blockquote>

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