hyphz posted:

Yes, D&D calls one of its default classes "Sorcerer". But it doesn't forbid PCs from calling themselves sorceresses.

Pathfinder has an extension class called "Witch". A Witch would probably cause confusion at the table if they referred to themselves as a Wizard because that's a completely different class, in the same way as in the Discworld setting. Thus there is a reason why Witch and Wizard are not gendered equivalents, and the issue does not arise so directly.

But The Excellents has this strange combination. It doesn't give any reason why "princess" isn't gendered in the setting, and it implicitly forbids playing princes. And the literal wording is "the Universe doesn't care how you express your gender". But calling yourself a princess is expressing a gender. I'm not sure if the implication is that a) all The Excellents characters are female, but possibly trans female; or b) a PC can be a cis male who calls themselves a princess for lulz and power. b) is a far more negative message about gender than anything implied by allowing the word to be flipped.

"It says it's a game about playing princesses," isn't really fair. By the same logic, since "Vampire is a game about playing vampires", nobody could complain if it banned playing vampiresses.