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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ravellion" data-source="post: 967989" data-attributes="member: 538">A woman rescuing her partner in fighting the evil overlord, falling in love with him later? Sure. The female protagonist would seem to stick up for her partner and lover to be, allowing for sexual tension and good dramatics.A woman rescuing the scrawny, pasty, ineffectual boy with a handsome face, then immediatly falling in love with him? Nah. It would make the female protagonist seem even more whimsy and strangely enough less strong.These might be culturally defined, or hardwired into the brain, but in the end that doesn't even matter. It shows of poor catering to the current decidedly unenlightened human audience, and hence is a marketing mistake at least. I also don't see the need for the roleplaying industry to break away so drastically and start trailblazing in this area, as its impact on western culture is infinitesmally small.Rav</blockquote>