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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythago" data-source="post: 6222920" data-attributes="member: 3019">Actually, the easiest way out of this is better writing: "The DM first describes the room, then indicates what monsters are present." Or "The DM describes the room, and then describes the monsters in that room." No need for the pronoun at all, and I suppose you could throw 'to the players' in there somewhere, but isn't it assumed by the reader, in the context of (say) a module, that the DM is addressing the players?Sure, there will be places where a pronoun is necessary, but there are also lots of places where it can be written out, just as one can avoid the 'generic' masculine by making a sentence plural; "Players must prepare their equipment list" vs. "Each player must prepare his equipment list".Other than "Yankees be trippin'" I admit I couldn't quite follow what you meant here. "History" is a very broad collection of events, images and themes that has waxed and waned over time, even in a fairly young country like America. To the extent that modern Americans personify their national identity as a female icon, that would be the Statute of Liberty, not Columbia.</blockquote>