[Banestorm] Female Adventurers

[TheQuestionMan]

"In Caithness you are not what you were born, but what you have within yourself to be" --- misquoted from "Kingdom of Heaven"

[Ragabash Moon]

Originally Posted by Kromm

I suspect that such chauvinism would be blown away in short order in a world where working supernatural powers exist and don't favor a particular sex

Slightly off-topic, but If I Pay Thee Not in Gold by Piers Anthony and Mercedes Lackey (actually his idea but he didn't want to write it, so he asked his publisher to find an author to do it, and they referred him to Mercedes Lackey) is a world where only women have magic, and so it's totally matriarchal.

[benz72]

Originally Posted by JAW

Well I don't see yrth magic being any more effective than earth technology on easing childbirth etc..

Why not? magic can do some pretty impressive things that earth technology can't, especially in the healing college. It'd be hard to argue that regrowing a limb or resurecting the dead isn't quite a bit more effective than earth technology.

[Pesterfield]

Suspended Animation, then cut the patient open to remove the baby, cast Minor Healing to repair the damage, and finally Awaken to end the Suspended Animation spell.

[LoneWolf23k]

Originally Posted by Pesterfield

Suspended Animation, then cut the patient open to remove the baby, cast Minor Healing to repair the damage, and finally Awaken to end the Suspended Animation spell.

Or, more simply, just use Ease Labor (GURPS Bio-Tech p 31), or Remove Fetus (GURPS Bio-Tech p 32) for a Caesarean birth.

[TheQuestionMan]

Alter Body would work well too

Cheers

QM

[TheQuestionMan]

What about Women in the Church. Not Nuns, but Bishops, Clerics & Holy Warriors.


Cheers


QM

[LoneWolf23k]

Originally Posted by TheQuestionMan

What about Women in the Church. Not Nuns, but Bishops, Clerics & Holy Warriors.

Well, I don't see a still-Medieval Church accepting Women in the clergy, but I did consider adapting Warrior Nuns to Yrth...

Edit: And for a more detailed version... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholi..._Press_Comics)

[Mysterious Dark Lord v3.2]

I always considered the social structures in mainstream Megalos, Cardiel, and the Muslim countries to be rather chauvinistic.

But not everyone is an adventurer! Adventurers don't even make up one percent of the population! The adventurer subculture is a different animal, a rather Bohemian society of it's own. So female adventurers don't get especially noticed by other adventurers or the bulk of persons they interact with.

In the culture at large, the adventurer subculture is known (or rumored) to be rather "loose" in regard to female roles, so a female adventurer would at worst get a -1 reaction from a real bigot ("Oh, one of those! No wonder.") to a +1 from a lover of novelty ("Oh my! How daring and exciting!").

[Figleaf23]

Originally Posted by shawnhcorey

No, men do not. Men can grow muscles faster than women. If a man and a woman
started a weightlifting program, the man would plateau long before she did. At
which point he would get a new program and increase his muscles even more. But
his limit comes when he runs out of hours in the days. He has to spend certain
hours sleeping, eating, defecating. Eventually, the woman would catch up. ...

That does not match my understanding. Given equal time and present training and nutritional methods, a women will not 'catch up' because while both can continue to grow their ST, baring unusual hormone treatments, the male will have a permanent and ongoing advantage.