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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8229940"><p>This is kind of the point I am trying to make. Many of the least interesting domain lords are male, and it is because they are not as much about issues of love, family, etc. I think people also need to remember this was the 90s ,it was the decade that gave us Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, which turned Dracula into a character motivated by love. And the broadway play Phantom of the Opera was still cultural relevant as it had come out just a few years before the boxed set was released. There was an appetite for villains who desired love, beauty, acceptance, family but couldn't attain those things. And they were considered some of the best villain roles. That kind of theme was in the air at the time. It is one of the reasons why a character like Soth worked in the setting. With the female domain lords, I don't think they were saying women are only about these things, or only fulfilled by these things. As I pointed out, they have more motivations, backstory and goals than just those things if you read the entries or read the material in the domain entries and the card stocks. What I felt they were trying to do was make cool female villains, who fit more into the mold of a Strahd or Phantom. Because that was cool at the time (Jacqueline Renier's character is actually a trope I associate more with male villains from that era).</p></blockquote><p></p>