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* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' plays this mostly straight. You can get up to eight members on your team; two men with huge swords, clubs or axes, one man with a dagger-sword combination, and one man with shield and sword filling the Tank role. Then there are two women who are mages and one who's intended as an archer. {{spoiler|Shale is a woman who also fills a tanking role, but she looks like and sounds like a man, and is rather surprised to find out that she used to be a woman, thus making her gender rather forgettable.}}

** However, the [[Expansion Pack]] ''Awakening'' averts this with the two rogue party members: the male rogue Nathaniel is better suited as an archer, and the female rogue Sigrun is meant to duke it out in melee (however, thanks to readily available [[Skill Point Reset]]s in ''Awakening'', you can re-spec them at any time). You also get one female sword and shield warrior, Mhairi.

** ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' again averts this with Aveline and Isabela—a brawny "[[Stone Wall|Guardian]]" warrior and a swashbuckling [[Pirate Girl]], respectively. Of the four ranged party members, only one is female (the mage Merrill).

* [[Mighty Glacier|Ness]] and [[Glass Cannon|Paula]] in ''[[Earthbound]]''. However, the character whose ''physical'' attack is ranged is [[Nerd|Jeff]].