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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5560540" data-attributes="member: 15538">So what are those reasons? I am interested.I've had a lot of time to think about these issues. I actually went through the effort, a few years ago, of trying to quantify male v. female differences in GURPS and D&D, and the basics of my argument derive from that exercise. The whole +3 relative lifting Str thing was not plucked out of thin air.Metrics are a very interesting topic to me... as I am a trained psychometrician, who has adminstered a number of I.Q. tests under the supervision of a psychologist, questions of normality and fariness are firmly practical to me and non-hypothetical. So it is not that I am firmly persuaded to one point of view, so much as that I have a lot of thoughts I have developed to the point I can present a cogent argument on them. I could, if you wished, present an argument why men should have a +4 overall Strength relative to women, and there is one to be made, but the argument is, in my view substantially weaker, less moral, and has the potential yield less that would be useful.I am a pragmatist. If my position seems stubborn, it is because the facts, issues, and ideas present a stubborn reality, from my viewpoint. If my opinion seems impassioned, it is because I do feel strongly about it, and I believe, as you do, that the consequences of belief extend far beyond the realm of fantasy.Can dragons be killed by women?</blockquote>