D&D General So, you want realism in D&D?

[GMforPowergamers]

Dragoborn were hatched from Dragon eggs. Dragons don't have boobs, so Dragonborn shouldn't have boobs.

women have bumps on there chest... the only things that matter are what the woman who want to play think... not what you think. Two women in my group through out 4e would ask anyone who brought it up "Would you want your character limited to not haveing a {redacted for grandma friendly] and be told that since you want to play races other than human you have to deal with the fact that only human men hav [still redacted]s?"

 

[EzekielRaiden]

women have bumps on there chest... the only things that matter are what the woman who want to play think... not what you think. Two women in my group through out 4e would ask anyone who brought it up "Would you want your character limited to not haveing a {redacted for grandma friendly] and be told that since you want to play races other than human you have to deal with the fact that only human men hav [still redacted]s?"

Yeah, one of the key things with a lot of the dragonborn stuff was...it was frequently the male members of the audience who were extremely insistent that dragonborn shouldn't have mammaries.

And, likewise, all the actual women I know who have played 4e or 5e are rather glad that they do have mammaries, or (less commonly, but there is at least one person I know who feels this way) just don't really care either way. I have yet to meet a single woman who was adamant that dragonborn women shouldn't be able to have massive tracts of land.

 

[Oofta]

The problem with this is the Wechsler model (like other IQ models) is (in theory) normally distributed, but 3d6 is not (its kurtosis (-0.4045) is off compared to a standard normal distribution with kurt 0). So it has too data much in the middle compared to the tails.

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If you wanted to generate ability scores which were (very close) to normally distributed, you would have to roll something like 15d2-12 (kurt = -0.133, so closer but still not ideal).

15d2 - 12 has mean 10.5, SD 1.94, skew 0, and kurt -0.133 and is the best I have found so far that most accurately models a normal distribution.

This assumes that 3d6 applies to anyone other than PCs, or that the in-world distribution looks anything like the meta-game rule used to randomly generate scores. There's no reason to make that broad assumption. All we really know about intelligence scores in D&D is that a 12 is better than a 10, for IQ it's that someone with a 120 IQ scores better on IQ tests than someone with a 100 IQ.

 

[Maxperson]

women have bumps on there chest... the only things that matter are what the woman who want to play think... not what you think. Two women in my group through out 4e would ask anyone who brought it up "Would you want your character limited to not haveing a {redacted for grandma friendly] and be told that since you want to play races other than human you have to deal with the fact that only human men hav [still redacted]s?"

So if a woman wants to play an earth elemental, those suddenly have boobs? I mean, if you want dragonborn to have boobs, they do. It doesn't make any sense in fiction, though.

And yes, if I was going to play something like a warforged, I would expect to be told that it has no private parts.

 

[James Gasik]

So if a woman wants to play an earth elemental, those suddenly have boobs? I mean, if you want dragonborn to have boobs, they do. It doesn't make any sense in fiction, though.

And yes, if I was going to play something like a warforged, I would expect to be told that it has no private parts.

Why not? It's all magic.

https://i.ibb.co/Rhfb8t1/1542912594-spottyjaguar-flame-atronach-small.jpg

Also, it's canon that Warforged modify their bodies, and some Warforged prefer to present as female and assume a female gender identity.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

So if a woman wants to play an earth elemental, those suddenly have boobs?

yes...

I mean, if you want dragonborn to have boobs, they do. It doesn't make any sense in fiction, though.

sure it does... they are magically made into images of female huminoids... and the people playing the game understand human secondary characteristics.

And yes, if I was going to play something like a warforged, I would expect to be told that it has no private parts.

what about elves?
what about dwarves?
what about dragonborn?

 

[Vaalingrade]

So if a woman wants to play an earth elemental, those suddenly have boobs?

If she wants. I mean it's her character. Is the idea of a buxom rock somehow hurting someone?

And yes, if I was going to play something like a warforged, I would expect to be told that it has no private parts.

The one race that explicitly gets modular parts. Warforged should be able to have closetfuls of private parts.

 

[Vaalingrade]

This is exactly where 'verisimilitude' becomes the enemy of fun, BTW. 'Your character can't look how they want because I don't want them to and am using realism as a catspaw for it'.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

The one race that explicitly gets modular parts. Warforged should be able to have closetfuls of private parts.

have you Heard the story of "big Unit" the warforged pimp? if not I think you just added to his legend.

 

[Composer99]

So what I'm hearing is that warforged can be "fully functional", eh?

Tasha Yar approves no doubt.