D&D (2024) How did I miss this about the Half races/ancestries

[Vaalingrade]

Hmm considering having dimorphic male/female is contentious to say the least...

Pretty sure everyone knows this isn't the issue.

Unless by 'sexual dimorphism' we're talking about 'surely monstrous male' / 'hot to Western Standards, Completely human except for skin pattern and maybe some claws' female.

 

[Incenjucar]

I've not seen that but it sounds adorable! Love it!

Sallie May is quite adorable, though it is a very much an adult series so fair warning.

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Overall the thing with dimorphism is to avoid using it to enforce real world stereotypes. We don't need to return to women getting pigeonholed because of real world upper body strength nonsense.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Yeah because god forbid we reflect reality, where many species have sexual dimorphism.

I mean if a goliath and a halfling have the same default ability scores, then so would male and female of the same species (assuming a human like species). I'm one of the people who thinks that species should have differing ASI's, but I understand from a game balance perspective why people dislike that.

Yeah but it really wouldn't make sense for a solider ant to try and do the job of say a farmer one would it or the reverse.

I mean ants are a pre-programmed hive mind species. They're not sapient and don't really have free will.

A sapient humanoid species which isn't a hive mind insect wouldn't have the same forced directives. Over time ingrained bias would build up just like it has with humans. But from a clean sheet, there isn't that forced programming which ants have.

 

[MGibster]

Pretty sure everyone knows this isn't the issue.

Unless by 'sexual dimorphism' we're talking about 'surely monstrous male' / 'hot to Western Standards, Completely human except for skin pattern and maybe some claws' female.

World of Warcraft's ears are burning right now.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Pretty sure everyone knows this isn't the issue.

Unless by 'sexual dimorphism' we're talking about 'surely monstrous male' / 'hot to Western Standards, Completely human except for skin pattern and maybe some claws' female.

Oh god please no. I hate it when media does that.

 

[Vaalingrade]

World of Warcraft's ears are burning right now.

Warcraft is like the jaywalker on an empty street in terms of offense here. There's a Melville book where the males of the species are non-sapient bugs.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Warcraft is like the jaywalker on an empty street in terms of offense here. There's a Melville book where the males of the species are non-sapient bugs.

Then there is Asari males in Mass Effect...

 

[Micah Sweet]

I really would not be. Wizards is both held to and holds itself to standards that no small designer ever could, would, or should be held to. They are part of Hasbro which is a multi-billion dollar company. Their concerns are fundamentally different from anyone else in gaming.

There are many rpgs created by single creators that are highly successful, and don't try to hold themselves to the Wizards standards. They do make a huge variety of games that have things in them that people approve of or not. The key is to be a decent person, and be true to your intended audience. If they like it, what do the opinions of anyone else matter? I'm not saying that you should try and be an "edgelord," but your game can be itself. As I've learned from recent threads, there are fan made Mystara or Dark Sun games that exist and are just fine chugging along. People who are interested in them are playing them and seem pretty happy. If that's what you're trying to do, I suspect you'll be just fine.

Now  this is good advice!

 

[Vaalingrade]

Oh god please no. I hate it when media does that.

So many hours of discussion with my artist on this. "Ogres have snouts like Brooklyn from Gargoyles." "Yes. All of them." "Yes all of them including the women." "Yes all of the women."

 

[Bagpuss]

Pretty sure everyone knows this isn't the issue.

So you'd be fine giving a Strength bonus to male human characters?