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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 5911306" data-attributes="member: 13107">Wouldn't the gender specific details easily be remedied?  I didn't gather that "widows and orphans" was aimed, in particular only at women and children, but rather at the helpless or lacking in power.Children (say, those less than 12-14) are almost universally held to be less than fully responsible, and are usually denied power.Depending on the society, women are placed in a position of inferiority.  They are socially obliged to defer to men, and may be legally prevented from having actual authority.Plus, the detail matters: The paladin is obligated to widows and orphans, not all women and all children.  Married women would be under the responsibility of their husbands.  Non-married women would be under the responsibility of either their parents or of another authority, such as a convent.  Non-orphan children would be under the responsibility of their parents.The aid that a paladin provided to a married woman, or non-orphan child, would be to confront the responsible party and hold them to their duty.In my view, this all provides easy modifications to the (admittedly) male centric presentation of the code: Liege Lord can be Liege Lord or Lady.  "Widow" could be "Caregivers" (a person who undertook a burden but also accepted a position of inferiority and dependency, as a socially recognized role, other than one whose care would devolve to the liege lord.)TomB</blockquote>

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