I bought the Ready Ref Sheets for D&D from Judges Guild despite 10 not having a group currently 2) not playing D&D in years. It was very interesting being a huge assortment of random charts for encounters especially I towns and cities.
Holy cow! When the tables got to female characters they were kind of objectifying. they added mechanics to rollup an additional three stats if you follow? Charisma was the dump stat as it dumped more sand int the hourglass figure?
Very 70's, very male oriented. I can see a lot of people criticizing this and then turning around and rolling up the looks of female characters in secret. Hopefully I treat women in my games a little better (everyone establishes their looks. Stats only slightly affect this).:D
In most games I am in there are girls playing. Usually my wife, my daughters, my granddaughters, my daughters in law. So you know how I feel about objectification. Male player, female player. Male character, female character. Makes no difference to me. If they're dwarves you usually can't tell. And it's impolite to ask.
I personally think the female dwarves wear fake beards when traveling to avoid undue attention but clean up pretty well, which led humans to believe they were bearded like the males.
I'm of the school where all dwarves have beards and humans can't tell male from female but the dwarves think they know but they aren't always right which leads to some awkward honeymoons.
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