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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fred Delles" data-source="post: 431412" data-attributes="member: 3497">>> This assumes that the wife can do anything about it if she does catch him. Wife beating is widespread in modern western democracies - how common do you think it was in more barbarous times? Who's a wife going to go to and what's she going to say when the majority have no problem with her husband beating her up just to "keep her in line"?>>Lost my first post, so I'll make this one short.Women seem to get the shaft in all of history, and today is no exception. There are honor killings - women are killed in most societies (happens everywhere, even the United States - IIRC, there was an honor killing in Missouri several years back just because a teenage girl got a job - and the father killed her because he believed that women should not have jobs, but to stay home.) There are also witch hunts (Any female deviants? Any males "supporting"? Burn 'em at the stake!) and so on. Therefore, I try to make my fantasy more "egalitarian". Except in historical eras, where I leave gender roles in and just keep the more gross bits out.Remember Murron (?) in "Braveheart"? She was almost RAPED and was sentenced to death just because she fought back. They had absolutely no word in what would go on.(BTW, it never happened to the real William Wallace's wife. She only died when Wallace became a traitor to the king (? - check up on this?)) but anyway, the sad facts stand. (And way back then, you can beat women anytime you want, too! But there eventually was a law in which you could not beat a woman with anything wider than the width of your thumb. This is where we get the phrase "rule of thumb". Useless trivia. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)Therefore, absoultely no rape in my campaigns (perhaps except for background, but that's it). If a PC rapes, the victim would actually be a high-level character that would slaughter the PC.As for slavery, madness, and war, I go nuts! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />But there is a fifth: Genocide. Perhaps half-breeds (whether by love or... rape is anyone's guess) are being slaughtered, and half-orcs and half-elves get all the half-breeds of the world to fight back. Or some minority of some race or subrace is being slaughtered in pogroms or otherwise holocaustic actions. What do you think? (I didn't go through this post much, so I don't know if you discussed this or not).</blockquote>

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