Of female characters in RPG's

[La vie sexuelle]

I liked when in A Dance with Rogues CON stat influenced the size of tits of your heroine. Normally CON would be a dump stat (after all its a game about rogues so high DEX is paramount) but somehow I felt a need to give my Lyanna a few points in CON above average

What? No dick size?

Girls doesn't have dicks, silly.

 

[Erebus]

Eh. I'm one of these "Maybe CON and STR should be one stat" annoying people.

Either STR and CON should be one stat, or DEX and AGI should be separate stat. I'm fine with both.

 

[Mauman]

Eh. I'm one of these "Maybe CON and STR should be one stat" annoying people.

Either STR and CON should be one stat, or DEX and AGI should be separate stat. I'm fine with both.

Meh.

I've known people who could run 10 miles with barely a sweat, but couldn't lift to save their life.

 

[Erebus]

Either STR and CON should be one stat, or DEX and AGI should be separate stat. I'm fine with both.

Meh.

I've known people who could run 10 miles with barely a sweat, but couldn't lift to save their life.

And I'm sure there are some people who can pick locks, yet are completely unable to do a Fosbury flop.

 

[Häyhä]

Eh. I'm one of these "Maybe CON and STR should be one stat" annoying people.

Either STR and CON should be one stat, or DEX and AGI should be separate stat. I'm fine with both.

Meh.

I've known people who could run 10 miles with barely a sweat, but couldn't lift to save their life.

Yep, only need to have a look at Olympic-level long-distance runners and how skinny they are.

 

[Reinhardt]

average codexer is the most useless character

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Prolly can’t even kill a rat.

https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Rat

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Dunno what it takes from level 0 to level 1 and rat killer/pest destroyer isn’t exactly a class.

Some say level 0 never levels up ever.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Eh. I'm one of these "Maybe CON and STR should be one stat" annoying people.

Either STR and CON should be one stat, or DEX and AGI should be separate stat. I'm fine with both.

Meh.

I've known people who could run 10 miles with barely a sweat, but couldn't lift to save their life.

Yep, only need to have a look at Olympic-level long-distance runners and how skinny they are.

Long distance running is not exactly a thing in cRPGs.
Short distance speed can be included in AGILITY.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Giving men and women different stats is retarded unless you simply give women a net penalty to stats, which no studio would ever do. It's extremely contrived to compensate say, the loss of STR with a bonus to WIS or even CHA (really, how many women do you know who'd be charismatic enough to actually lead people into battle?). That women are treated better in most circumstances is not due to their awesome charisma, but to completely different factors governing sexual relations.

I do enjoy roleplaying a female character, in certain ways it's easier to do it as I'm not self-inserting. Usually when I'm comfortable enough with the game and I want to play it in a more indirect way. It has nothing to do with staring at their ass or "they're better to look at". Honestly, if you give that answer I think you're more likely to troon out than if you enjoyed playing dress up with your female heroine.

 

[mediocrepoet]

average codexer is the most useless character

Took charisma as a dump stat, then also dumped intelligence, wisdom, strength, and dexterity. Basically RL gully dwarves.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

average codexer is the most useless character

At least they're mean

 

[Maxie]

Giving men and women different stats is retarded unless you simply give women a net penalty to stats, which no studio would ever do. It's extremely contrived to compensate say, the loss of STR with a bonus to WIS or even CHA (really, how many women do you know who'd be charismatic enough to actually lead people into battle?). That women are treated better in most circumstances is not due to their awesome charisma, but to completely different factors governing sexual relations.

I do enjoy roleplaying a female character, in certain ways it's easier to do it as I'm not self-inserting. Usually when I'm comfortable enough with the game and I want to play it in a more indirect way. It has nothing to do with staring at their ass or "they're better to look at". Honestly, if you give that answer I think you're more likely to troon out than if you enjoyed playing dress up with your female heroine.

give women a bonus to manipulation and a malus to accountability

 

[Reinhardt]

average codexer is the most useless character

At least they're mean

with their stats it's a malus.

 

[BruceVC]

What practical benefits do big breasts provide, why didn't middle eastern sages think to snip that "excess" skin like they did with male genitals?

If women were to get strength penalties in RPGs for being women, they should get additional dexterity and movement penalties for having large breasts.

Big breasts may help with persuasion...

Straight male characters should be get a focus/skill penalty when fighting females; more so if the male is a noble knight character, the female is attractive, and she's wearing a chainmail bikini. In extreme cases the male would forget to fight and just stare at the female's cleavage; when she attacked he'd only be able to defend himself passively, not counter-attack or hurt her. If the female's stats were high enough, the only way for the male to win such a fight would be to drain her stamina, ruin her weapon or use magic (or a fishing net) to immobilize her.

This is what I like to see, constructive and out of the box thinking

If you fighting a women with massive breasts wearing chainmail-bikini armour there should be a low risk negative attack penalty and it can be called " boob bedazzled factor " or something similar?

But your idea has huge potential

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

You over estimate the IRON GROPE technique and PUSSY PIN maneuvers (usually involving tripping her to the ground).

Eh… a bit rapey it sounds, but why is she slapping them titties in your face to begin with?

 

[Alex]

-2 STR - obviously.
+2 CHA - women are social creatures.
A bit simple and popamolish but good enough.

Wait, is this still a WOMEN thread?

Look, the thing about charisma, in D&D at least, is that it isn't a measure of how "social" you are, but your capacity to actually inspire people following you. It is the quality of generals and statesmen that actually make the people willingly cooperate towards what that person proposes. Now, to be sure, there were some great examples of that among women; and when all is said and done, a woman leading others by inspiration is actually much more appropriate. But saying women are naturally more capable in this field however sounds false to me.

 

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[Alex]

Eh. I'm one of these "Maybe CON and STR should be one stat" annoying people.

Either STR and CON should be one stat, or DEX and AGI should be separate stat. I'm fine with both.

GURPS deal with this quite nicely. You have a strength stat that also determines your hit points (and character size) and a health attribute that is used for stuff such as resisting disease or hunger and which determines fatigue points.

 

[M. AQVILA]

Spellcasting, healing and support roles. There's nothing more cringe than a female warrior/fighter. The sort of men who like female warriors are the sort that like women to step on their balls.

Men are more resistant, more powerful, more agile and faster than women. Outside it being part of a difficulty setting, there's no reason to put women in roles that require those abilities.

 

[octavius]

Very few real women look like land whales.
More to the point would have been a woman who got a man to the dangerous work for her.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Lara Croft sure got fat.

I’m surprised 5e didn’t bring back comeliness or divide all the stats like 2e skills & power had as an option. Or was it high level campaigns? The black bound final core/accessories was a transition time I barely paid heed too.

 

[Konjad]

-2 STR - obviously.
+2 CHA - women are social creatures.
A bit simple and popamolish but good enough.

Wait, is this still a WOMEN thread?

If we go this way:

Male:
+ 2 STR - superior muscles...
+ 1 CON - ...and endurance (at least long-term)
+ 2 INT - men are more creative and inventor-like

Female:
+ 2 DEX - quite nimble fingers and such (but using DEX for bows is a retarded idea, they can be good snipers though)
+ 1 WIS - given opportunity, women actually fare better in education (on average, but best are usually males anyway, hence only +1)
+ 2 CHA - superior interpretation of social cues, much more talkative as well as mentally manipulative


Or to put it in another perspective

Male:
-2 DEX - knit something? Want me to lose my fingers?
- 1 WIS - classes are so boring, hey, my female classmates have nice tits
- 2 CHA - why do I always feel autistic?!

Female:
- 2 STR - women are equal to men, but carry my bag please
- 1 CON - *1 hr explanation why a little scratch hurts so much*
- 2 INT - Do something new? Thinking outside the box? What is that?

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Hah! There be some extremely nimble dudes. Just give the chicks the negatives and the dudes the positives. Who were the most charismatic humans in history? More males or females? The wisest? The most intelligent? The most anything except being a baby oven and mammary milking factory for that bun?

Women can do some but mostly they are manipulative opportunistic lazy cows that bitch a lot, demean and belittle the males taking all the space and leaving the dudes with shit.

In games of old F/M + name was just cosmetic. Many times both were equal and I didn’t care. Modern games want to get all nit-picky and start adding pronouns and bullshit.

 

[Lagole Gon]

-2 STR - obviously.
+2 CHA - women are social creatures.
A bit simple and popamolish but good enough.

Wait, is this still a WOMEN thread?

If we go this way:

Male:
+ 2 STR - superior muscles...
+ 1 CON - ...and endurance (at least long-term)
+ 2 INT - men are more creative and inventor-like

Female:
+ 2 DEX - quite nimble fingers and such (but using DEX for bows is a retarded idea, they can be good snipers though)
+ 1 WIS - given opportunity, women actually fare better in education (on average, but best are usually males anyway, hence only +1)
+ 2 CHA - superior interpretation of social cues, much more talkative as well as mentally manipulative


Or to put it in another perspective

Male:
-2 DEX - knit something? Want me to lose my fingers?
- 1 WIS - classes are so boring, hey, my female classmates have nice tits
- 2 CHA - why do I always feel autistic?!

Female:
- 2 STR - women are equal to men, but carry my bag please
- 1 CON - *1 hr explanation why a little scratch hurts so much*
- 2 INT - Do something new? Thinking outside the box? What is that?

This would probably end up as an unelegant mess if you start involving racial bonuses.
It would be better to just ditch d20 and go full autistic simulation if you want to go into all details.

 

[Alex]

Lara Croft sure got fat.

I’m surprised 5e didn’t bring back comeliness or divide all the stats like 2e skills & power had as an option. Or was it high level campaigns? The black bound final core/accessories was a transition time I barely paid heed too.

Why would they? One of 5e's main goal was making the game as simple as possible, in a way attempting to imitate a bit the OSR games. Creating new stats would go directly against this design goal.