![]() Just because a couple of queens went to battle doesn't mean there were scores of female soldiers in a Macedonian phalanx. Actual badass warrior queens, both among barbarian cultures like the Celts, as well as Hellenistic cultures. Yes, there were some female rulers who led their own armies from the front. Let's compare it with the ancient mediterranean again. People like these always like to pick singular examples from literature and history and then claim that this was some kind of norm. If you choose a role like that, you will be an outsider. People won't have the same kinds of relationships with him that they have with your average Ragnar from the neighborhood. People will have a sense of respect for a man who's good at that kind of magic, due to his power and occasional usefulness, but he won't ever be a normal part of society. Wanna be a badass viking leading a troop of men to foreign shores? Nobody is gonna join a weirdo who practices woman magic. Wanna go through an ambitious senatorial career in Rome? If you're a fag, you won't stand a chance. But that also meant you weren't able to assume societal roles normal men were allowed to (and expected to) perform. Of course, you were allowed to be a lesser man. A fag doesn't have virtus, therefore he is a lesser man. But they'd fucking ridicule you because the one thing a Roman man should have is virtus, and virtus refers to manly virtues of strength, integrity, willpower etc. No, the Romans didn't crucify you for being a fag. It is the same with ancient mediterranean cultures like Romans and Greeks. ![]() However, if you tell a normal person in his face that he's a practitioner of feminine magic, he has the right to stab you right then and there because you gravely insulted him. There's also a big difference between "a thing existed" and "a thing was widely spread and accepted." Yes, men who practiced feminine types of magic existed, and they weren't instantly tossed in the bog for being fags, but they were generally seen as weirdos and your average person would have felt uneasy around them. ![]() If you wanna get something or off someone but can't do it directly, disguises and other tricky methods were totally fair game. Trickery was a widely accepted strategy in Norse society. What a riot! Obviously played for laughs, as a good yarn, rather than as a statement of "The god Thor is genderfluid". Like that tale where the giants want to wed Freya, but the Aesir dress up Thor as a woman instead so he can sneak in undetected and then slay all the giants at the great reveal. The old Norsemen also had a sense of humor so gender bending was used as comedy, much like it was done in Shakespeare's time or even in modern comedies. Sagas = stories about extraordinary people doing extraordinary things, sometimes based on fact but often mixed with myth. Main stats are Spirit, Mind, Toughness, Urgency, Luck, and Endurance.Īh yes, because some sagas had characters assuming atypical roles for their gender, it means viking society was genderfluid. Like I'm surprised I find more tolerance on reddit for the older style mechanics of prior editions and see a lot of people still pushing for it to remain at least a optional rule for 5e over there.ĮN world really is giving rpg.net vibes I got to say.Īnyhow to practice what I preach after that tirade looking at the giant lands looks like its going to be a d100 system? Like vision has a state of 59, smell 87, and mind 82 and I'm not seeing any pluses or minuses for certain state thresholds so guessing it's a role under system? If so stats seem a little high for a level 3 character unless I'm missing something. Then they devolve into talking about the origins of the world race or use it for a launch point on how the older editions have built in racism and its good that racial modifiers are gone. People on that website seem completely unable to just let a product release and judge it on its own merits and instead have to focus on the character of the creator. Though apparently the character sheets got taken down recently so you can't see that anymore. When a quick bloody google search I was able to find the character sheets for the game and they don't even use the term race but instead species. Like they haven't even looked up any info on Giantlands before saying that it's to cater to the "racist" all because of that first quote. ![]() They're really desperate to call the company and the game a failure from the get go over the opinions of one guy damn whatever other opinions the other creators may have. ![]() I can see why you web archived the article over linking to it straight. ![]()
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