ExploderWizard
Hero
And that, and not in the gender rules, is where the sexism is inherent to the system. D&D has always privileged strength as the most important stat, and violent combat as the privileged resolution system. It wasn't I think intentional sexism. I think it was just a result of evolving the game from war gaming roots.
What? OD&D doesn't feature sexist stat mods, and Chainmail provides no differences if you want to say that a particular unit of troops are all female.
You mean options like specialization and double specialization and magic items that increase strength, and magic items that allow all characters to increase their strength beyond attribute limitations. Sine most characters don't have an 18 strength anyway strength becomes a small percentage of where the bonuses come from.
All available to every fighter character right? So why the stubborn refusal to unlock the 51-00 range for females ar chargen? It truly boggles the mind.
What if in the default setting we retained the STR limits for females but put a limit of 16 on INT for male characters. So now if want to play a male magic user your INT would be capped at 16. No 8th & 9th level spells for you. It would be ok though because there are magic items that can be used to raise your INT. It balances out. Men are better at hitting things and women are better at high level magic. You don't need power Word Kill because you have biceps.
Makes no sense.