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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5560040" data-attributes="member: 4937">Absolutely.  I live with a couple of them.Which is I think pretty ridiculous.Without going into the details, size has a much larger impact on you in my house rules than it does in stock 3.X.  Housecats have good reason to fear commoners.  Not only that, but you can't play a gnome or a halfling under my house rules, though granted that is mostly for reasons of flavor.   I bring this up because you seem to think that you've discovered some sort of hypocrisy on the part of anyone who disagrees with you, and I want to point out that while I don't apply a strength penalty to human females I think the RAW rules for size are ridiculous.So not only do I think claims hypocrisy is a stupid basis in and of itself for an attack on someone elses position, but you have no evidence that anyone is actually a hypocrite.   The two issues are unrelated.   What you do or don't do with halflings has no real bearing on what you do or don't do about female strength.Why on earth would appealing to the existance of a fantasy race whose characteristics cannot be really measured have anything to do with how you view the reality of the differences in strength between human men and women?  If it doesn't exist, I can assign it whatever characteristics I prefer.Are you trying to claim that its impossible that a creature that only weighs at most 60 lbs would be only about 10% less strong than a human?   If that is what you are claiming, then yes, I do offer the chimpanzee as one of several possible counterexamples.</blockquote>

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