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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5550326" data-attributes="member: 8835">Also consider that the average NPCs may follow this logic.  average men are stronger, and average women are weaker.But PCs are heroes.  They naturally are better than average, and as a result, their stats are subject to any "sexist" skew.Furthermore, consider that overall, male gamers outnumber female gamers.  Assuming each gamer plays their gender, then the % of female PCs will be small, much like the "strong women are rare" logic that a GM seeking rules like this would have been going for.Basically, by doing nothing, the statistical spread is close enough to reality.By making rules that make female PCs weaker, you are basically biasing the game against female PCs.  In today's world, that smells like sexism, and isn't worth the political hassle, let alone any actual benefit to the game.its kind of like "what was Gary thinking when he wrote those rules?"  Were female PCs such a problem that he had to put a cap on that to block all the gaming abuse?  Was he sick and tired of every gamer (who at the time, was probably a male), playing a slutty PMS-ticating stereotype that if he had to roleplay one more seduction encounter he'd shoot himself?  bad enough he had to roleplay bar maids getting hit on, now he's got to deal with male player's warped view of what it is to be a woman in Greyhawk.</blockquote>