1st Printing April 1995

> 1st Printing April 1995
> Page 9
> A Note About Pronouns
> "The male pronoun (he, him, his) is used exclusively throughout the AD&D game rules. We hope that this won't be construed by anyone to be an attempt to exclude females from the game or imply their exclusion. Centuries of use have neutered the male pronoun. In written material it is clear, concise, and familiar. Nothing else is. "

Ok

Times change. All order is fleeting. Adapt or perish.

Not really. This shit is cyclical: The roaring 20s was the height of sexual freedom. Then there was WWII, and everything went back to normal. After that, there was the Summer of Love, which became the Autumn of Discontent and the Winter of Selling-Out Big Time.

We're just waiting for the next war.

Would it upset you less if Paizo wasted page space to write the opposite?

5e has the best use of pronouns.

Shape or be shaped

e has the best use of pronouns.
How does 5e use pronouns?

It's second person, spells or abilities targeting creatures say "creature" or "it", targeting players it say "they" or "he or she" (the last one is very rare).

Personally I prefer what 3E did, which was have the pronouns for a class match up with that class' iconic character.

So Mialee was a female wizard, so wizards were "she". Tordek was a male fighter so fighters were "he". And so on.

I miss having iconics, too...

Why is this even a problem? What compels you to give a shit about what pronouns are used on a rulebook?

I personally don't, but people who do are so fucking annoying

That is actually pretty clever. At last I found something about 3e I like.

neo/pol/ brainwashing

Pathfinder does it too.

Why do you browse Veeky Forums if you don't read rulebooks? because if you did you'd know why this is a problem.

Yeah but pathfinder is just a shittier 3.5 so why even mention it.

It sounds clever, but it's actually a nightmare to read.

Because muddying the flow of language for political reasons where it does not belong is cancer.

> Implying that pointing out how standard English works is brainwashing.
Reason is the greatest enemy of ideology.

>Using "they" as singular
I blame my 8th grade English teacher, but that just bugs me a lot.

Not as much as can/may mixup (but what bugs me about that is, because of my dad, I habitually correct people and it makes me look like an ass).

...why?

Even the most SJW approved style guides don't recommend alternating pronouns, It's distracting as fuck but Pathfinder takes it to the next level because of how it's written; tens of different authors writing in completely different styles using different pronouns and often alternative been them mid-sentence.

That's clear, almost as concise, and a lot less familiar.
>Nothing else is.

Yes, and?

I do, and I still don't see.