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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5563353" data-attributes="member: 15538">Not that I see the relevance, but I do lift weights, and I do not keep up with weight lifting as a phenomenon.This has been covered in painstaking detail over the course of this thread. I realize it's a long thread, but I think you might find it worthwhile to read more before you post. Just to recap:1) A total of about +3 effective Strength difference covers even the most generous estimates of strength differences, but is awkward to implement; as you picked up on, I maintain that only about +1 of that, at most, translates into a different Str difference. A lot of the athletic endeavors cited to show male superiority (fencing wins, tennis, running) in D&D are actually associated with Dex or no ability score at all.2) I posted a video of a female MMA fighter taking out a credible male boxer. She demonstrated the ability not only to outscore him, but to ring him out, shove him, and escape from grapples. In terms of historical women warriors, I can recommend<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons" target="_blank">this article</a> on African all-female militia who fought the French Foreign Legionas well as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Russian_and_Soviet_military" target="_blank">these gals</a>3) Realism is not all where it's at4) Reality isn't balanced; in most RPGs, PCs are</blockquote>