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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 7173295" data-attributes="member: 11821">First - I don't think we're talking about your homebrew patriarchal/matriarchal society; we're talking about magic elfland (aka Forgotten Realms for 5e), the game's default setting.Choices already matter - you listed quite a few of them. There are a few reasons a character's biological sex is different than the rest of those. First, races &amp; classes are not real things. Second, it explicitly channels male and female characters into stereotypical roles that may not have a basis in magic elfland. Third, it sends a message to women players about what's important enough to model in the game-world. Fourth, if you are representing the difference between entirely different species with a +1 or +2 here or there, sexual dimorphism isn't on the charts. Fifth, you're talking about individual PCs' stats, not an entire population, so averages are irrelevant. Sixth, a +1 or -1 to a stat here or there isn't actually interesting at all compared to any of those other things you mentioned (valuable, but not interesting).Hey, this is D&amp;D, the game where humans can interbreed with magical fantasy non-humans of completely different species. And dragons, last I checked, can interbreed with basically anything. So I guess if your dragonborn and an elf got together, it'd be up to you to figure out what would happen? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Besides, you're missing the point. If you want to say &quot;this is too far,&quot; that's a line you've decided to draw. You're saying &quot;nope, this is too silly.&quot; And yeah, saying &quot;strong player character women is too silly&quot; is a statement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 7173295, member: 11821"] First - I don't think we're talking about your homebrew patriarchal/matriarchal society; we're talking about magic elfland (aka Forgotten Realms for 5e), the game's default setting. Choices already matter - you listed quite a few of them. There are a few reasons a character's biological sex is different than the rest of those. First, races & classes are not real things. Second, it explicitly channels male and female characters into stereotypical roles that may not have a basis in magic elfland. Third, it sends a message to women players about what's important enough to model in the game-world. Fourth, if you are representing the difference between entirely different species with a +1 or +2 here or there, sexual dimorphism isn't on the charts. Fifth, you're talking about individual PCs' stats, not an entire population, so averages are irrelevant. Sixth, a +1 or -1 to a stat here or there isn't actually interesting at all compared to any of those other things you mentioned (valuable, but not interesting). Hey, this is D&D, the game where humans can interbreed with magical fantasy non-humans of completely different species. And dragons, last I checked, can interbreed with basically anything. So I guess if your dragonborn and an elf got together, it'd be up to you to figure out what would happen? :D Besides, you're missing the point. If you want to say "[I]this[/I] is too far," that's a line you've decided to draw. You're saying "nope, this is too silly." And yeah, saying "strong player character women is too silly" is a statement. [/QUOTE]

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