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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 753106" data-attributes="member: 5137">Some Archetypes: Amazon, Crone, Ice Queen, Virgin, Whore.Some Stereotypes: Butch Lesbian Amazon B****, Withered Witchy Crone, Dominatrix Ice Queen Sorceress In Leather, Sweet-Hearted Virgin, Whore That Looks Like A Sweet-Hearted Virgin.The archetypes, in and of themselves, aren't particularly offensive to me. Below are some examples of why I like them in many cases. Done badly, of course, they become stereotypes, but that hasn't really happened in my campaigns. Below is NOT an exhaustive list (or close), and the archetypes I listed are just the ones that occurred to me first.The Amazon can be a paragon of femminine empowerment, chaotic social forces (the original amazons were monsters - everything the greeks feared in women), and potent iconic imagery. Wonder Woman (by DC) is an Amazon Virgin, for example, and when she's done well, she RAWKS.The Crone is one of my favorite character archetypes, although more difficult to pull off well than the Amazon, because she should be wise, eccentric, and seemingly capricious without losing her compassion, and without budging an inch on matters of tradition.Ice Queens are the unattainable, arrogance personied, cat made manifest in flesh. They make good employers, aristocrats, and, if played as only mostly unattainable, a fascinating, campaign-long romance and seduction. In our superhero soap opera, one of my players (a lesbian) has been pursuing the Ice Queen NPC in my campaign for, oh, 6 months real time now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.The Virgin isn't, or shouldn't be, merely a sexual connotation. The virgin is from somewhere else, a utopic state, and she has been thrust into a more violent world where she must cope or fail... without losing the essential innocence that links her to her utopic home. Sometimes in the story, the Virgin loses her innocence and can never return home; sometimes, she keeps it, and either returns home to safety, or fights on in the more violent world for principles the world doesn't understand yet.The Whore is also the earth mother, and her primary traits are freedom of sexuality, compassion for men, passion for life. She makes a good healer of wounds, both those of the flesh and those of the soul. In many cultures, the Whore was also the Confidante (including our modern culture). Of course, true Whores are rare - most merely act out the part in return for favors, and this is a viable and interesting character concept as well.Ugh, sorry about the length on that. Just got me thinkin'.</blockquote>

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