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<blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 8090051" data-attributes="member: 59057">Just to remind anyone that how it was done for the last 45 years was not an act of discrimination, but an attempt to simulate a world (with our world or the taless of our world as the basis). Dwarves were not given +CON for optimization reasons, elves were not given +dex for the same reason or halflings got no str penalty to discriminate them. It was an honest attempt of a very easy mathically justified way to model the world and the tales of it.3d6 is approximately a bell curve with an average of 10.5 and most values in the middle. If you add +1, the bell curve has its middle at 11.5Most people are still in the middle. It is very easy to find someone of the first population who is a lot better than most of the second one.Careful: real world example... a professional female body builder (str 18) is stronger than most men and even as strong as other male professional body builders. But there are a few male ones with Str 19 that are impossible to reach.Or a different example: There are different tables for the average size and weigth of boys and girls. Imagine, you would unify them into one baby table because of false zeal. You would treat babys that happen to be girls as underweight and undersized and boys as overweight for no reason... Or in sports class, you take the same table for throwing, running and so on and tell them that everyone is treated equally for fairness sake...And still, in my first post, I said: that I don´t want it in my fantasy game. As I don´t want to roleplay how my character goes to the toilet several times a day...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UngeheuerLich, post: 8090051, member: 59057"] Just to remind anyone that how it was done for the last 45 years was not an act of discrimination, but an attempt to simulate a world (with our world or the taless of our world as the basis). Dwarves were not given +CON for optimization reasons, elves were not given +dex for the same reason or halflings got no str penalty to discriminate them. It was an honest attempt of a very easy mathically justified way to model the world and the tales of it. 3d6 is approximately a bell curve with an average of 10.5 and most values in the middle. If you add +1, the bell curve has its middle at 11.5 Most people are still in the middle. It is very easy to find someone of the first population who is a lot better than most of the second one. Careful: real world example... a professional female body builder (str 18) is stronger than most men and even as strong as other male professional body builders. But there are a few male ones with Str 19 that are impossible to reach. Or a different example: There are different tables for the average size and weigth of boys and girls. Imagine, you would unify them into one baby table because of false zeal. You would treat babys that happen to be girls as underweight and undersized and boys as overweight for no reason... Or in sports class, you take the same table for throwing, running and so on and tell them that everyone is treated equally for fairness sake... And still, in my first post, I said: that I don´t want it in my fantasy game. As I don´t want to roleplay how my character goes to the toilet several times a day... [/QUOTE]

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