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How Writing Is Like Fencing, With Writer Max Gladstone - Part 1

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Is There a Lot of Women in a Roll Playing Game?

A long time ago, i was working on a roll playing game in the nineties. I decided to make all of my n pcs randomly male or female. Andi i would literally alternate, and whatever the last one was, the other one would be different. Now if that had been published and that was available now, i think people would see it as ordinary that there's a lot of women. Why aren't there any transe characters? Why is this soap inary? Because we've come a long, long way in the last 20 years on all that stuff.

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