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Originally Posted by Hogscape
I wanted to be the first to congratulate you on this excellent review but it seems a whole bunch of people have beaten me to it!
Extremely well written and really got me interested in the new edition (I have previous editions). Two questions:
1. What gives with the terrible cover picture?
2. 50% of my players are female. In previous editions there hasn't been too much for a female character to do. Has that changed in the 5th edition?
Many thanks
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Hi Hogscape. Thanks for the nice comments.
1. The cover picture is apparently Arthur fighting the Troit boar (a bit of Arthurian legend I can't remember personally). Because the campaign starts earlier in this edition (485 compared to 531 in 4th edition) I suspect the artist wanted to convey a more primitive, darker setting. I agree that it doesn't really work though.
2. As far as I can tell nothing has really changed vis a vis female characters. There is a little change because the setting has been moved back a few years so you no longer have the "not-a-ladies" suggestion for warrior women and instead have "Boudicca's daughters" or somesuch (I am writing this without access to my book so I might be wrong). I don't know what the Great Pendragon Campaign will offer, but in earlier editions I have always felt that the period after the enchantment of Britain is much more conducive to playing traditional female characters. What with all that courtly romance and weird interactions with the faerie and so on.