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General Description of Classes only refers to "She/Her"?

LemminkainenLemminkainen Member Posts: 12
edited March 26 in General Discussions NWN:EE
I selected a male character in the Character Creation screen previously. Why does the general class-category description say "she and her" and not "he and his" (in the case of the Male gender already having been selected)??

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  • YigorYigor Member Posts: 863
    edited March 27
    That's the Legacy of Bhaal Biden. 🤣
  • LemminkainenLemminkainen Member Posts: 12
    edited March 27
    Lol you got flagged too (more legacy of Bhaal-den). I'm just curious whose idea it was to do that and why. I cannot be the first person to have noticed it, so surprised (as far as I know) no one has mentioned it.
  • ZaxaresZaxares Member Posts: 1,337
    I doubt it's anything to do with Biden actually. Without going back to look at the various classes to see if it's the same for all of them, 3rd Ed (which came out in 2000) in general had a habit of using female pronouns as the default. So NWN was just following the conventions set by WotC.
  • Allanon81Allanon81 Member Posts: 362
    D&D has always from the beginning used she and her pronouns in general. And yes it was intentional to seperate itself from other games, boardgames, wargames that use he and him in general.
  • LemminkainenLemminkainen Member Posts: 12
    I wonder what TSR's default with pronouns was in the 70s/80s.
  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,817
    Please no politics.

    https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/876/tendency-of-using-pronouns-she-her-when-talking-about-a-random-person
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