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<blockquote data-quote="guachi" data-source="post: 7170691" data-attributes="member: 6785802">Major speed differences, too. These are also a function of muscle strength, of course. The fastest female 100m time ever is routinely beaten by hundreds of highschool boys every year.Venus Williams, the greatest female tennis player ever and quite strong, has admitted she'd be beaten 6-0 6-0 by the then best man in a matter of minutes. However, D&amp;D isn't really capable of showing just how much faster and more performance the top physical performers are than the rest of us. Even rolling 3d6 would mean about .5% of people were maximum score. And there is probably as much distance between the .5% person and the .05% person as there is between the .5% person and the 5% person. I don't think it'd be impossible or even hard to find a women who was in the top .5% of physical ability.And I don't think it's worth actually modeling distributional differences between the strength of men and women in game. What would you do? Give them a lower starting score of a 6 or 7 but the same top end? I think it (the distribution) gets modeled anyway by players of female characters tending towards lower strength PCs, anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="guachi, post: 7170691, member: 6785802"] Major speed differences, too. These are also a function of muscle strength, of course. The fastest female 100m time ever is routinely beaten by hundreds of highschool boys every year. Venus Williams, the greatest female tennis player ever and quite strong, has admitted she'd be beaten 6-0 6-0 by the then best man in a matter of minutes. However, D&D isn't really capable of showing just how much faster and more performance the top physical performers are than the rest of us. Even rolling 3d6 would mean about .5% of people were maximum score. And there is probably as much distance between the .5% person and the .05% person as there is between the .5% person and the 5% person. I don't think it'd be impossible or even hard to find a women who was in the top .5% of physical ability. And I don't think it's worth actually modeling distributional differences between the strength of men and women in game. What would you do? Give them a lower starting score of a 6 or 7 but the same top end? I think it (the distribution) gets modeled anyway by players of female characters tending towards lower strength PCs, anyway. [/QUOTE]

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