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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StalkingBlue" data-source="post: 1671986" data-attributes="member: 645">To be fair to S'mon, as a general statement that isn't true.  S'mon ran a couple of low-level sessions of the Conan RPG for us a while ago, the first session mostly solo for me.  In that setting I was able to play a female Cimmerian Barbarian and to feel free to expand and make the world my own in a way I've never been able to feel in his high-level homebrew game.  S'mon and I both love the strong female characters in the original Howard Conan stories - until recently I thought he took the same stance for his homebrew world.  Even in his homebrew he's very interested in working with players towards making individual PCs cool.  He's put a lot of effort into customising rules for my character - in fact we both invested tons of time and work in a concept we're currently playtesting - so we'd be able to achieve a nature-witch flavour for his world that we both like.  It's much more stylish than the PHB druid or the rather lame DMG witch.  The PC's access to the spirit world and rapport to local spirits (and in some cases allied spirits from strange faraway places) is very cool, and I still think has great potential if we can work out a way I can play her and not be frustrated.  I guess the best of both worlds for me would be to still be able to continue to play my high-level witch, in whom both S'mon and I have invested a lot, yet also to be able to feel that I can expand in the game and make the world my own without hitting anti-female bias at every turn.  Seeing more non-stereotype NPCs would help I guess.  Seeing more of powerful women in the setting than their relations to 'their men' would also help.  What would help me most of course would be to feel that my PC has by now earned a place as an 'honorary man' in the setting.  Who knows - if NPCs start taking her seriously, PCs might actually start picking up on the same thing?  Tall order, perhaps... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I'm extremely grateful for some very well-considered replies in this thread. It's helped me see clearer on what my problem in the game is, even if we don't yet seem to have found a solution.</blockquote>

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