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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8230175" data-attributes="member: 6915329">The desire for power and control are as much fundamental human needs as the need for romance. As are needs to be appreciated, to create art, to prove one's worth, to get justice, And again, having a desire for romance is fine. Having that as your only purpose is boring and stereotypically sexist when it applies to women.Which as I said elsewhere, is not an excuse.Which is why I said I wanted new female Darklords with motivations other than just romance. And that's not really much of an excuse, because while Ravenloft has a lot more real-world basis than most D&D settings, it's still fantasy and has had few problems with women in political power (nobody has tried to depose the female political leaders in favor of a male, for instance).But for some reason, a lot of people who, judging by comments and usernames are male, seem to think that I'm attacking the whole institution of romance by saying that women should have a motivation beyond it. After all, it's not like you or Bedrockgames or some of the others have said, "Hey, maybe those female darklords could use some rewrite to give them additional interests or at least something to do all day other than have parties and ruin other people's relationships," or  "You know, I really like Aderre and Reneir and Boritsi, but yeah, we could use us a new strong Core-realms Darklady who don't need no man." Instead you guys double down on how important romance is, and how the male Darklords suck too so it's OK, how it's based on old horror novels like it's impossible to create a Domain that isn't based on them, making it really seem to me that you have a problem with the idea of women not being overly devoted to men.</blockquote>

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