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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 9361128" data-attributes="member: 12731">That thing at the end is weird, and/or (probably and) I don't understand what you're saying. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I would definitely not read more into high Comeliness than just attractiveness. Basically, if I would use it, I would use it as a convenient shorthand for a lengthy description. For PCs it's okay to write down exactly how someone looks, but for a NPC, just rolling 3d6 for Comeliness tells me everything I need to know, at least as long as that character remains peripheral to the story. (In modern times, having the AI generate a portrait is kind of the best of both words) I would say Comeliness basically is Charisma before you get to know the person. First impressions stuff. Sure, having a supernaturally high value could mesmerize someone, but really, that's Charisma's job.The gender rules from Dragon #3 are best left buried. So many D&D house rules that can't see that women can be just as thirsty as men. The common idea "female heroes have lower Strength but higher Charisma" completely fails to realize that women get just as bedazzled by charismatic males* as men are bedazzled by charismatic females* (with minor differences in execution).*) and other personsI feel that much better than to use rules like artificially limiting female characters' Strength (that Dragon article has females roll 1d8+1d6 for Strength instead of 3d6) which in practice just completely shuts the door to Strength builds, is, if you use gender disparity rules at all, restrict the frequency rather than the capacity of really strong female characters.In a recent Sword & Sorcery campaign inspired by 80s movies like Conan I ran (it didn't use 1E rules, it used DCC rules, but still) I did not make female heroes roll lower Strength scores than males. Instead the players generate characters as usual, but after rolling Strength they roll for gender with the Strength modifier modifying the roll. This way, an 18 Strength female hero is perfectly possible and she is not limited in any way, shape or form... unlikely, but not restricted or held back.</blockquote>

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