There were a lot of these notes in RPG books in the 90s. I remember also seeing alternating between he and she every paragraph (this sucked btw) and a convention where the players are he/him and the GM is she/her (sounds almost reasonable until they try to use it instead of specifying which player).
I think Ars Magica has a note where they basically say “We’ll throw around masculine and feminine pronouns and differently gendered nouns completely at random.” They use a lot of Latin, so there’s a lot of gendered nouns. Unfortunately they never seem to address genders or lack thereof outside the binary, but then again, neither does Latin.
There were a lot of these notes in RPG books in the 90s. I remember also seeing alternating between he and she every paragraph (this sucked btw) and a convention where the players are he/him and the GM is she/her (sounds almost reasonable until they try to use it instead of specifying which player).
“she/he”, “he/she” and “(s)he” in academic texts where a thing for a while.
Would have been so much cleaner to just read “they” or “them”.
I think Ars Magica has a note where they basically say “We’ll throw around masculine and feminine pronouns and differently gendered nouns completely at random.” They use a lot of Latin, so there’s a lot of gendered nouns. Unfortunately they never seem to address genders or lack thereof outside the binary, but then again, neither does Latin.