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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5563628" data-attributes="member: 22779">The problem, in my mind, when you start down this road, is where do you stop?  Ok, we reduce a human woman's carrying cap by 40%.  Now, since we're positing that our female characters are smaller, how much do we reduce the weights of their equipment?  After all, the female character's armor obviously doesn't weigh as much as the male character's armor.  She'd likely be using a lighter sword (being not as strong and all) and a lighter shield as well.  How do we calculate this?And it doesn't end there.  Because, sitting next to the female human's player is the elf player who is asking why his plate mail weighs as much as the human male's suit of plate when the elf is about half the human's size.Meanwhile the orc player is giggling because he gets this whopping big strength bonus, but all his sizes are calculated for a character that's significantly smaller than his orc.This sort of thing simply proliferates all the way down the line.  Each tweak spawns a series of new issues that need to be addressed until you wind up spending three hours calculating the weight of a dagger because you have to first calculate the weight of the user that accounts for the strength of the user.Which of course, spawns the question of does a female character's sword do as much damage as the male character's sword.  It's smaller after all.  Does the female character's shield break easier than the male character's shield. On and on and on and on.Again, and I'll repeat this, in a largely abstract gaming system, why on earth would you want to go down this road?  You'd have to rewrite the system from the ground up to account for the granularity required.  And for what?  So you satisfy someone's need for there to be a mechanically generated difference between male and female humans?</blockquote>

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