Since the 90s, but they were more subtle then. They were infected with the first big push of what we called "PC" back then and never completely shook the stink.
I'll give you an example. One guy on the WotC discussion boards pointed out something about an update to the Forgotten Realms setting: with the death of the King of Cormyr, all the "good" rulers and most of the powerful NPC's were female (there were a few men like Elminster, but they were rare and more often than not more morally gray than the women) and all the villains were male. Most of the people on the board didn't realize it, but - something that wouldn't happen in this day - they had a rational discussion about it. That took place before 2000.
Since the 90s, but they were more subtle then. They were infected with the first big push of what we called "PC" back then and never completely shook the stink.
I'll give you an example. One guy on the WotC discussion boards pointed out something about an update to the Forgotten Realms setting: with the death of the King of Cormyr, all the "good" rulers and most of the powerful NPC's were female (there were a few men like Elminster, but they were rare add more often than not more morally gray than the women) and all the villains were male. Most of the people on the board didn't realize it, but - something that wouldn't happen in this day - they had a rational discussion about it. That took place before 2000.
Since the 90s, but they were more subtle then. They were infected with the first big push of what we called "PC" back then and never completely shook the stink.
I'll give you an example. One guy on the WotC discussion boards pointed out something about an update to the Forgotten Realms setting: with the death of the King of Cormyr, all the "good" rulers and most of the powerful NPC's were female (there were a few Elminster) and all the villains were male. Most of the people on the board didn't realize it, but - something that wouldn't happen in this day - they had a rational discussion about it. That took place before 2000.