Mishihari Lord
First Post
Here's my last bit on gender-based Str mods:
Given that PC races in D&D may vary by hundreds of pounds of body mass from humans and only be +-2 Str from the human norm, then any gender-based Str mod of statistical significance to the game makes zero sense.
Put differently, if a muscle and bone mass difference of as much as 3x the body mass of an adult male is only worth +2 to Str across species, a difference within a species of 100lbs or less is not worth calculating.
I think this is a better argument that differences in strength bonuses should be larger between races than that strength bonuses between genders should be smaller.
I based my estimate on RAW (2e) and actual data. If someone doesn't like the idea for ideological reasons, that's perfectly understandable, but I don't think the math can be argued.