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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 2227775" data-attributes="member: 6318">No, because it's male-dominated by the historical accident of its origin in wargaming! Except for people who like being in cliques, nothing could be better for the medium of roleplaying than for it to expand its demographic. Bravo to Chris Pramas et al. for trying something that larger companies won't attempt. In my own experience and for my purposes, well-chosen non-RPG-enculturated people make better roleplayers than most veterans.Romantic fantasy is no further from pre-1975 fantasy than current D&D is, and a good deal closer to the mainstream of modern fantasy fiction than is D&D. People like to roleplay in settings that they enjoy imagining! Who is surprised some people like worlds with friendly people and fair social systems more than worlds of slaughter and subjugation?The spectacle of Macho Gamer Guys feeling obliged to say how Aldea is not for them is really not pretty. And the habit of seeing everyone's political bias but your own -- like thinking foreigners have accents and you don't -- is transparent.</blockquote>