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... do any of those actually meet the criteria you were looking for? If Dark Legions is the game, seers exist in a world with all sorts of other magic users, WH40k is full of warp benders of all genders, you can definitely have male magic users and presumably darkspawn in DA, and... I have no interaction with the scorpion king, so I have no idea there. Unicorns I wouldn't even know where to start with -- even the real-world mythology is varied as the buggery, nevermind fantasy stuff, and m'not sure I count being able to sorta-interact with a single species of mutant horse as particularly special-power worthy.

I mean, at this point, I'm legit curious as to fictional worlds where the special bits are explicitly gender locked and one gender is completely mundane. Even with the magical girl stuff I've encountered, most of it doesn't seem so much like guys can't do the whole transformation sequence stuff so much as don't -- and even then, there's usually alternate powersets they get involved with. I know there's a few out there, but a lot of times even when the general situation is gender-locked the stories built in the world in question are about exceptions to the rule (See: Infinite Stratos, since I've forgotten all the text examples I've read.).

Lies. Lies, I say! Plenty of ranged weapons have computers in them! Drones, missiles, pretty sure they're aiming artillery via computer these days, so on, so forth. Hell, with drones, that's specifically computers that have several models designed for use against unarmored protesters peasants. They're just computers with guns attached to them or whatever. Think the rest of it have similar stuff.

Same with Tactics Ogre, where the Princess and Lord classes are opposites but equal (In the original the Princess Class is basically the ultimate mage who can have every spell, while the Lord can have any physical skill).

Definitely untrue with Ogre Battle, though, which is what I specifically mentioned -- the Lord class in that, particularly the original, is something very specific, and the closest to the princess class was possibly the lich, something very different, though both were pretty much the best back-line classes in the game (for radically different reasons).

But nah, monogender stuff at all is pretty rare from what I've seen -- even with magical girl stuff, just as an example, it's generally either that males have some sort of alternate power (See: Sailor Moon) or they just don't get screen time the same way female magic users don't in, say, the Hobbit. I am pretty sure I've read a least a few fantasy/sci-fi/whatever novels over the years that had male only (/only males) powers, s'just... there's been a lot of things over the years. Can't remember what they were, ha.

Mm. I know the final fantasy series has several gender locked job/class things (Bard, dancer), for what that's worth -- basically the same thing, just in a world with plenty of other, non-gendered, powers. The Ogre Battle stuff did things similarly for a great deal of its games -- valkyrie/knight split, princesses, and so on. Definitely want to say I've seen the same sort of thing in some non-game settings, but names and whatnot are escaping me, and my memory's nagging that whatever I ran into it with was read over a decade ago.

Maybe some of piers anthony's work? I forget if the adept things were monogendered (though certainly most of the ones I can currently recall were male, at least initially. Maybe an alien once or twice.), and I'm almost certain the... tone? The one that got pretty goddamn freaky with diapers and a suicidal/cutting protagonist and man I don't know what else. Stuff might have had something like that.

Also maybe the Shannara stuff? Not sure why that's dinging the memory. There's certainly plenty of fantasy work where even if the magic or whatever wasn't strictly gender locked you never saw any female archmagi equivalents or whathaveyou.

Absolutely no clue

I guess maybe if you kill shin with a rebirth mark thing going...?

Also, if you need woolly keys I've got, like, spares. Twenty something of the ruddy things. Gob wool turns into keys turns into gob wool turns into more keys turns into more gob wool. You get the idea.

Just show up Looks like you're in the group, so just hop into the chat room and chill until people show up (or don't show up, in which case it might not be until next week but eh).

Pretty sure it's an open invitation. Today's game is supposed to start in about 45 minutes if normal scheduling is followed, but it's a little wonky the last few games so it may or may not be today.

Lightsaber, obviously. Perhaps a force sword or daemonblade, I'unno. Anything that can gut a squiggoth is okay in my book.

I mean, you're welcome to come for squiggly swords, but I'll take incandescent plasmatic death for 600, alex.

Apparently fairly sizable 50-70 meter deep hole, only <30 km from a gas plant.

Takes 1-2 years to notice giant honking hole in the ground spitting distance from intensely flammable processing area.

Seems legit russian to me.