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Some disclaimers I wanted in my original toot but ran out of characters:

‣ I'm not a lawyer. Don't take my advice assuming I'm an expert (but likewise don't do the same for the other advice floating around!)
‣ I'm not in the US, so the US legal system is not something I'm familiar with in any intimate way
‣ Read the Terms carefully. Come to your own conclusion. Or better: find someone who does actually know what they're talking about for legal advice

@axiom if that's your reading, then opting out is a good idea!

The most important part of my toot was the part that says "read the terms very carefully"

If I had more than 500 characters available to me, I would have emphasised that I'm not a lawyer and even if I was I'm more familiar with my country's legal system than the US, but unfortunately I ran out of characters.

so now* I choose:

‣ The newer version of the game with better rules
‣ The older version of the game which doesn't constantly feel like it's trying to exclude women

*where "now" is "sometime between now and when I decide to play it

@hal@slime.global I think this is really good!

hang on.... I'm looking through the Deadlands classic rulebook, and in that one they use she half of the time.

What the heck??

Why did they remove feminine pronouns from the second version of the game???

Especially since a lot of the actual fluff text is exactly the same as it was before

also the example that I just read was like:

"if you take this Edge at character creation, you have a deformaty and get a -2 to your charisma. We know it's unfair, but a female with this edge can choose if their deformity is unsettling (-2 charisma) or exotic (+2 charisma)"

Which is just.... so gross

Every time I read bits of the Deadlands: Reloaded rulebook, I get really inspired and I really want to run a game of it.

And then I get frustrated at the fact that the rule book assumes that every player, and also every CHARACTER is a man.

There's no gender neutral language. It's "when your character does X, he gets Y" all throughout the 290 pages.

The only exception is when a rule depends on gender, and then usually it says "a female gets Y"

@hal@slime.global I just posted a link in a reply to the original post