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<blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 4163789" data-attributes="member: 13855">The offensive quality is that men are the norm off of which women are measured... if you don't impose similar stuff on men, which older versions of this game didn't do.Now if human men got -2 WIS, -2 CHA, and +2 STR, I'd at least not dismiss the person as being unreasonably nostalgic for the original editions, if I was feeling kind. Then I would consider talking about ability changes based on sex.... if they were different for every race. (The doubled penalties are for the gamist reason that strength penalties are supposed to be unbalancing, as in the half-orc's stat adjustment.)(And another thing: why do all these fictional races have exactly the same gender splits in representation? What, it would kill WOTC to represent their gnome women as, on average, taller and with beefier musculature than gnome men? Or how about dwarven women? At least some of them are reputed to have beards... why not have part of the appeal for dwarven men their height and impressive biceps?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roguerouge, post: 4163789, member: 13855"] The offensive quality is that men are the norm off of which women are measured... if you don't impose similar stuff on men, which older versions of this game didn't do. Now if human men got -2 WIS, -2 CHA, and +2 STR, I'd at least not dismiss the person as being unreasonably nostalgic for the original editions, if I was feeling kind. Then I would consider talking about ability changes based on sex.... if they were different for every race. (The doubled penalties are for the gamist reason that strength penalties are supposed to be unbalancing, as in the half-orc's stat adjustment.) (And another thing: why do all these fictional races have exactly the same gender splits in representation? What, it would kill WOTC to represent their gnome women as, on average, taller and with beefier musculature than gnome men? Or how about dwarven women? At least some of them are reputed to have beards... why not have part of the appeal for dwarven men their height and impressive biceps?) [/QUOTE]

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