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Tyneras · 03-11-2010, 03:05 PM

Unless you're running the type of campaign where the Erotic Art skill gets a lot of use, I don't really see what difference the gender of a warrior makes. Just take any famous warrior, set gender to "female" and go from there. Socially, they will always be either the dominant or oppressed gender (or equal, for some settings, then it really doesn't matter) at whatever the social level such a warrior occupies. Add social advantages/disadvantages to taste.

As it is Infinite Worlds, you are free to play with whatever social system the local timeline has. No female warriors? OK. Only female warriors? OK. Only female knights, only male foot soldiers? OK. Total equality? OK.

I just don't see how real world female warriors are needed, unless you want to say that history is different because Joan of Arc became Queen of France and conquered all of Europe then colonized the Americas, which then disintegrated in a nuclear civil war, and that is why all tank drivers are female.

03-11-2010, 03:05 PM	#13
Tyneras Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kentucky, USA	Re: Female Warriors Unless you're running the type of campaign where the Erotic Art skill gets a lot of use, I don't really see what difference the gender of a warrior makes. Just take any famous warrior, set gender to "female" and go from there. Socially, they will always be either the dominant or oppressed gender (or equal, for some settings, then it really doesn't matter) at whatever the social level such a warrior occupies. Add social advantages/disadvantages to taste. As it is Infinite Worlds, you are free to play with whatever social system the local timeline has. No female warriors? OK. Only female warriors? OK. Only female knights, only male foot soldiers? OK. Total equality? OK. I just don't see how real world female warriors are needed, unless you want to say that history is different because Joan of Arc became Queen of France and conquered all of Europe then colonized the Americas, which then disintegrated in a nuclear civil war, and that is why all tank drivers are female. __________________ GURPS Fanzine The Path of Cunning is worth a read.