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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkCrisis" data-source="post: 9565004" data-attributes="member: 1788">I want to start off by saying this isn't some kind of issue, I just find it interesting and wanted some thoughts as this was presented in a Dragonlance adventure and not say a Faerun one.I remember when this adventure first dropped and a lot of people had issue with the old lore retcons.  Me included.  I'd rather they build on old lore instead of whole cloth change things as if they always were but hey I don't own the brand.Anyways.A big issue back when it dropped was the inclusion of female knights.  In the books, women becoming knights was something that happened later.  During the War of the Lance (and before) it was almost unheard of.  A recent DL novel that has time travel in it touched on this and sets a seed for female knights.  Which you could say later bears fruit.  I've never had a real issue with it.  If I set a game in the WotL and a someone wanted to play a Lady Knight, awesome go for it.In the old AD&D box game books.  You could have female knights.  So even official product has this even if the novel lore kind of didn't.  Again, so what.Well, I've started reading SotDQ and noticed that as of the beginning of the book and a couple adventure chapters that almost every major NPC is female.The dudettes:The Knight who summons youThe Mage you meet in the roadThe leader of the MercsThe mayor of the townThe Inn ownerThe Kender market stall ownerMysterious ElfThe Red Dragon Army leaderThe RDA leader's main 2nd in commandOn the flipside, the dudes:Scared guy on the road into townEvil noble in townEvil noble's sonThe Knights squireThe dockmasterSeems a tab lopsided.  Perhaps in answer to the apparent sexism of the old lore?  Than again, perhaps this is how female gamers notices things when its all men men men 99% of the time.</blockquote>

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