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<blockquote data-quote="Guest&amp;nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 6212290"><p>Personally I am fine with whatever the writer is comfortable using. If the writer wants to use He as generic, that's cool. If the writer want's to use she as generic or alternate, that is also cool. They usually feels a bit off to me, but not always. &quot;He or she&quot; and &quot;He/She&quot; feel clunky and awkward as well, as does avoiding pronouns. I think it really needs to be left up to the writer. The language just doesn't have a good gender neutral third person singular pronoun (people have created them, but they've never caught on enough to be useable by writers) so it really is one of the bigger challenges for writers to do in a way that feels comfortable and the audience accepts (because whatever direction you go, it generally will anger someone out there). Every language is a bit different on this front (I remember having to learn masculine and feminine dual pronouns once for another language and it was a nightmare because the closest we have in English I would think of is &quot;you two guys&quot;).&nbsp; In the case of a game like pathfinder or D&amp;D, I expect them to continue with the trend of alternating, as it is established and it is a design team.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Guest 85555, post: 6212290"] Personally I am fine with whatever the writer is comfortable using. If the writer wants to use He as generic, that's cool. If the writer want's to use she as generic or alternate, that is also cool. They usually feels a bit off to me, but not always. "He or she" and "He/She" feel clunky and awkward as well, as does avoiding pronouns. I think it really needs to be left up to the writer. The language just doesn't have a good gender neutral third person singular pronoun (people have created them, but they've never caught on enough to be useable by writers) so it really is one of the bigger challenges for writers to do in a way that feels comfortable and the audience accepts (because whatever direction you go, it generally will anger someone out there). Every language is a bit different on this front (I remember having to learn masculine and feminine dual pronouns once for another language and it was a nightmare because the closest we have in English I would think of is "you two guys"). In the case of a game like pathfinder or D&D, I expect them to continue with the trend of alternating, as it is established and it is a design team. [/QUOTE]

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