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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 1879543" data-attributes="member: 21938">Under RuneQuest rules, humans (and many other creatures) do have seperate stat rolls for male and female, although the rules also suggest that female adventurers are cut from tougher cloth than their non-adventuring sisters and therefore to use the same stats rolls for men and women (seems fair enough).If you have the 1st Ed. handbook, Gygax states in his introduction that "you will not find artificial rules for different Strength scores for men and women" (possibly with a "herein" thrown in there too. However... go to the Strength table and you will find that 16 is the maximum strength for a human female.Hmm...However, in general I agree (how many people bothered with that part of the rules anyhow?). 3rd Ed. is more egalitarian (to the point of PC-gone-mad) with its alternating male and female pronouns for every other paragraph. Of the iconics, though, I think Alhandra the Paladin is the only one who is outside of expected gender norms (the other iconic wimminz being the Kung-Fu babe, the Wizardess, the Nature-Loving Hippy Chick and the Half-Pint Lara Croft).</blockquote>