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- From: ambar@cygnus.com (Jean Marie Diaz)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
- Subject: Re: (MUSH) Those Wacky Cross-Gender Impressing Dragons
- Message-ID: <30199@hoptoad.uucp>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:26:08 GMT
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- In-reply-to: morpheus@cco.caltech.edu's message of 22 Dec 1992 18:29:10 GMT
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- In article <1h7mpmINNjaa@gap.caltech.edu> morpheus@cco.caltech.edu (Kynn Bartlett) writes:
-
- There are dozens and dozens of ways in which the MU*s don't follow the
- novels or the DLG, or don't even -try- to do so in certain cases. Thus,
- it always cracks me up when I hear the cry of 'but that would violate
- theme in a minor little tiny way!' on a MUSH. :) (E.g., females with
- honorifics in their names.)
-
- Sure. But when one decides to violate genre in a major way, (eg,
- allowing females to Impress blues and browns, despite not the least hint
- of support for this in the books), one does so for very good reasons.
-
- (Digression: It's not so much that I think cross-gender characters ought
- to be discouraged--*I* think people should play whatever gender
- characters they damn well please--but I know quite a few (most?)
- players, me included, simply don't do cross-gender stuff well, and would
- have a very hard time running a cross-gender character who had even a
- nominal chance of being Impressed. This is why I don't take the
- position that I think is most supported by the books: namely, that Path
- was a unique dragon, like Ruth, and women should only Impress golds.)
-
- Should these violations (not the reasons behind them, even, just the
- existence of the violations themselves) then be taken as support for
- minor violations of theme? If so, then why bother with the theme at
- all? We'd surely live in a lot less fear of Anne's lawyers if we simply
- made up our own little universe of little cuddly creatures, big
- impressive creatures, danger and derring-do, love and lust.... and
- didn't call it Pern.
-
- AMBAR
-