Hmm, i wonder what AD&D's PHB from 1997 has to say about pronouns...

"He/him means male but also neutral" was a standard thing that was taught for a long time, and while it was true at one point it eventually got taken up by the "anti singular they/them nerds" and lost its credibility.

It still is in Spanish.
- In the US southwest dude and possibly bro are gender neutral.
- I believe this is a standard across most Latin languages, Slavic languages, and at least one other indo-European language. I think that the Finno-Ugreks avoid this by not having gender at the noun.
It was never true, it was just male chauvinism accepted by a male chauvinist academia.

"They" as a neutral pronoun predates using "he" for everything and has been considered more proper for a long time - except among losers.

earliest written use of singular they is 1375
even the losers who say "it isn't grammatically correct!!" accidentally use it constantly

Sadly this was considered progressive in the 90s

Keep in mind the idea that girls did anything other than talk about boys and makeup was laughed at by most people at the time, or at the least given an eye roll. "You just want attention from boys" was a sentiment that lasted well into the 2010s

"You just want attention from boys" was a sentiment that lasted well into the 2010s
To the point that libs were accusing women who supported Bernie Sanders of doing it "for the boys."

lol Flashpoint Campaigns does the same thing and that came out in 2013

Wargaming's reputation is not entirely undeserved

I remember reading it in the 90s lol. You know it's nice they said anything and addressed it at all. "He or she", like some splat books in 3.5 was pretty clunky. Lately they've been mixing pronouns which is cool (like some sections use he, others use she, some use they), or exlusively using they/them which is probably the actually more gender-neutral term anyway.

MFW this would be considered too woke even today.

: "Whaddya MEAN you don't mean to exclude gurlz!?"

Honestly far better than i expected.

I'm not going to look into what the author means by neutered because words don't have genitals

I'm 99% sure it means "has become a gender neutral word" in this context, but it's hard to imagine they're speaking in good faith, the tone is so defensive. Also "they" is right there
not anymore, they don't. they were all neutered over the last couple centuries.
Sans serif.
Probably some Latin nerd shit, if I had to guess.

Centuries of use have neutered the male

Vampire the Masquerade also uses all female pronouns
Skimming through the 5e book online now, to describe building your character they use the perspective of a fictional player 'Bob' and use he/him for that section, but generally uses non gendered language or "he or she", as in "Class broadly describes a character's vocation, what special talents he or she possesses..." I don't get why 'they' isn't the default in place of 'he or she'.
- At least the male pronouns aren't directed at the reader and instead at a fictional male character.

For the ease of the reader I have changed all of the gender related pronouns, 'he/she', to the masculine 'he.'

Tobias Fünke, ~~The Man Inside Me~~ 2nd Edition AD&D Player's Handbook

Damn, if only AD&D's rules were that straightforward.

What are you talking about? AD&D is about making rulings at the table, not rigidly adhering to published rules. Rule Zero trumps basically any other rule.
- It is interesting the rather large number of people that think that Hasbro cops will break down your door and ban you from D&D if your group agrees to some other rules. The number of times I see the question "If my gaming group agrees to play by some rule, is that allowed in D&D?" (or whichever system) is... Well, it's a lot
- THAC0, twenty different charts, attributes being split into two different categories, percentile rolls. I love the system on some level, but you can apply rule zero to anything to claim it's simple.

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.

If you want to be gender neutral, use they/them. If you insist this causes ambiguity once every fifty pages, use gender-neutral she/her. If you actually care about removal of (Very rare! You can usually reword your sentences!) ambiguity and gender neutrality, use two sets of neopronouns!

female