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<blockquote data-quote="Ipissimus" data-source="post: 4169068" data-attributes="member: 41514">No, it doesn't offend me at all. I think that it can be a nice house rule that makes an additional facet of a character more important to gameplay. But then, I'm of the general opinion that diversity is something to celebrate rather than attempting to cast everyone in the same mold.But then there are facts. Like the fact that girls don't generally grow as tall as men and have much harder time building up muscle. On the other side, boys aren't generally trained in the nuances of social interaction from a young age and their egos generally get in the way. Of course, I'm generalizing.Is it worth sex being treated as a race? Possibly. It certainly puts a different spin on spells like Alter Self. Depends on your players and the campaign. One thing that must be remembered about the difference between races in the real world and in DnD is that OUR 'races' are all Homo Sapiens. That's not the case with DnD races, even if some can interbreed due to magical interference.But I would never expect any major publisher to put in differences between sexes into their RPG. Having lived through the 80s politically correct craze and the big noise about using gender neutral 'she' the last thing anyone needs is to be tarred with the sexism brush for the sake of a little extra simulationism. It's a can of worms I really don't want to have to revisit again in my lifetime.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ipissimus, post: 4169068, member: 41514"] No, it doesn't offend me at all. I think that it can be a nice house rule that makes an additional facet of a character more important to gameplay. But then, I'm of the general opinion that diversity is something to celebrate rather than attempting to cast everyone in the same mold. But then there are facts. Like the fact that girls don't generally grow as tall as men and have much harder time building up muscle. On the other side, boys aren't generally trained in the nuances of social interaction from a young age and their egos generally get in the way. Of course, I'm generalizing. Is it worth sex being treated as a race? Possibly. It certainly puts a different spin on spells like Alter Self. Depends on your players and the campaign. One thing that must be remembered about the difference between races in the real world and in DnD is that OUR 'races' are all Homo Sapiens. That's not the case with DnD races, even if some can interbreed due to magical interference. But I would never expect any major publisher to put in differences between sexes into their RPG. Having lived through the 80s politically correct craze and the big noise about using gender neutral 'she' the last thing anyone needs is to be tarred with the sexism brush for the sake of a little extra simulationism. It's a can of worms I really don't want to have to revisit again in my lifetime. [/QUOTE]

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