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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5563873" data-attributes="member: 177">He seems pretty logical to me.  So, maybe you want to watch it with accusations of irrationality.That made-up halfling exists in the same world as the woman with the strength penalty (she's as "made up" as the halfling).  Halflings are a comparison benchmark within the game world - this woman with a strength penalty is equivalent to a halfling in many respects.The question is simple: does that make sense?  Does the typical image of a human woman match the typical image of a halfling for strength?  Genericize it, even: do you want human women as weak as the weakest thing you typically see as a PC race in the game?  If not, then the penalty is not very sensible.  Dude, folks need to be able to wrap their heads around the fantasy world quickly and easily, with a minimum of cognitive dissonance.  That means that, even with the existence of magic and other races, the fantasy world has to work kinda-sorta like the real one in many respects.   Exactly where to draw the line where real and fantasy worlds diverge is not some objectively obvious thing.  It is a matter of taste.  People are not "bizarre" for having tastes that differ slightly from yours.I think you are thoroughly mis-stating the logic there, as noted above.  Modifications to the rules ought to be consistent with and make sense in the context of the things that already exist in the rules that aren't part of the suggested change - including halflings and half-orcs.</blockquote>

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