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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dracorat" data-source="post: 5550039" data-attributes="member: 40170">While I think that in many cases, there are real-world differences in gender, a system should not enforce difference.If a player chooses a gender as a matter of stat and plays the character as a manifestation of dice rolls and ability uses, the gender doesn't matter anyway; it's a tertiary stat primarily used when for some reason a magic effect might have to act upon a gender or something similar; situations which rarely occur.If a player chooses a gender and then attempts to play the character as a flesh-and-blood character, they will naturally have a mental image of what the character can and cannot do and will attempt to mold the character in that image. In this case, the difference between the genders will happen automatically and transparently.In either case, if the system introduces differences for different genders, it is introducing only the potential for disappointment as a player chooses one but loathes not being able to have the "benefits" of the other. Unnecessary; for the reasons just described.</blockquote>