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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3740354" data-attributes="member: 13966">I prefer the 3E pattern of alternating he and she, using whichever is appropriate for the example character in any given section (frex, if the iconic bard is female, refer to bards in the feminine, or if the iconic wizard is male, refer to wizards in the masculine), while keeping a relatively balanced mix of male and female iconics for such examples.Though I kind of prefer the classical use of Man or Men as the default reference for humanity (as Tolkien used), and masculine pronouns as a result, I understand it'd be viewed by some as sexist so I'd rather see a balanced mix to avoid any misgivings about it.  Even though most gamers are probably guys, it would be unfair to the girl gamers to just use masculine pronouns in books.I think it was a positive decision by the designers to make the iconic 3E paladin and monk females, as they're both rather strong and independant archetypes.Though I'm still miffed that the 3.5 iconic bard was a gnome.  Gimble is no true gnome at all, but a halfling poser! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>