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Dwarfs are short and chubby with big beards
But all those Scottish accents are just racial stereotyping.
Everybody knows they have Russian accents.
Dwarfs are short and chubby with big beards
But all those Scottish accents are just racial stereotyping.
Everybody knows they have Russian accents.
You could slip in something of the kind in one of two ways that *might* not go over too badly:
1) Have SIZe and BuiLD stats chosen by the player, together they determine your characters weight, and put limits (min & max) on STRength and DEXterity. They're independent of the player's choice of assigned sex, but will probably result in gender-stereotype-conforming PCs.
2) Setting. If a culture has strong/restrictive gender roles then people conforming to them will strive to achieve ideals, leading to development in the desired directions. It's not that you couldn't build a PC amazon or dandy, just that they'll be consistently mistreated.
It's just a game after all, right?
One set in the alternate universe of Je ne suis pas un homme facile, for instance. Or, for us older fellas who may not have netflix, any of those 70s battle of the sexes spoofs, like Queen Kong or Star Maidens.. But, if you *really* want to claim it doesn't matter, then flip it - make it so *women* have the strength, and the men are weaker.
If anyone here wants to do such a thing at their table, well it is their table. But, if you *really* want to claim it doesn't matter, then flip it - make it so *women* have the strength, and the men are weaker.
Seems like a reasonable thing to do for a science fiction novel. You could then speculate on the conditions that caused this state of being to come about, presumably paralleling the conditions that make say females the larger stronger of the sexes in eagles and spiders.
I doubt anyone is going to feel threatened by that speculation.
Why would we need to speculate about it in the fiction? Because it's different than normal? It's sci-fi/fantasy. It is because it is. Unless the reversed-sexual-dynamic is the underpinning element of the setting, it doesn't need to be "explained" any more than why the world has dragons or magic.