Editing Kingdoms: Overview of the Game System (section)

===A note on Terms, Gender and Pronouns===

For the purposes of the game, ''Pawns, Knights, Bishops, Rooks, Queens and Kings'' are all referred to as '''Pieces.''' Any aligned with the Black Court are called '''Black Pieces''' and any aligned with the White Court are called '''White Pieces'''. When describing all these pieces for setting-background purposes, rather than game-rules purposes, they'll generally be referred to collectively as ''The Fae''.

Additionally, the following pieces are referred to as '''Back Row Pieces''' - ''Knights, Bishops, Rooks, Queens, Kings.'' These are also sometimes called '''Player Characters''', and sometimes '''Actors'''.

The real life people who control these ''Actors'' are called '''Players'''. As noted above, these will generally be referred to as the '''White King Player''', '''White Queen Player''', '''Black King Player''' and '''Black Queen Player'''.

With regards to ''Player Characters'', ''Kings'' are always male and ''Queens'' are always female. All other player characters can be male or female (or should you wish, neither or both).

With regards to ''Players'', any player can be any gender! However, for ease and simplicity these rules will refer to King Players as "he" and Queen Players as "she".

The '''Adjudicator''' is not considered ot be a Player, and can of course be of any gender. However, for ease and simplicity these rules will refer to the Adjudicator as "he".

Note that '''Pawns''' are also referred to as '''Armies'''. Because each army represents a large number of soldiers, they'll get the pronoun "they". Also, Pawns are not directly depicted as Player Characters, but rather should be regarded as resources to be used.
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