06-07-2019, 03:03 PM | #31 |
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Re: Sexually Dimorphic Races [Fantasy]
If you're being realistic, there's no reason that should be true, and if you're ignoring realism, there's no reason to use different templates (the same character template will generally be legal for both male and female, just probably more standard deviations away from average in one case).
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06-07-2019, 04:45 PM | #32 | |
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One such example (and how I got there) can be found at D&D Lich in GURPS So you stat the race normally (ignoring the differences) and then do the male and female as Lenses. Last edited by maximara; 06-07-2019 at 05:05 PM. |
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06-08-2019, 06:34 AM | #33 |
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Re: Sexually Dimorphic Races [Fantasy]
I'm not fond of a template that requires a lens to be usable, so I'd be more inclined to determine which gender the PC's are more likely to be, have that as a template, then have the other gender as a lens. As male adventurers outnumber females - and particularly as this disparity is even more pronounced for halflings (due to males being much more suited for adventuring, as well as sociological reasons why female halflings would be less inclined to become adventurers than females of other races) - I'll likely have the default halfling template be for males, with a lens for females.
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06-08-2019, 07:48 AM | #34 |
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Re: Sexually Dimorphic Races [Fantasy]
Lenses are generally supposed to add to templates, not subtract and add massive numbers of traits, so that does not really work unless female halflings are more capable than male halflings. Anyway, my players are just as likely to play female PCs as male PCs, and they are more likely to interact meaningfully with female NPCs than male NPCs, so it is usually better for me to have female templates more filled out than male templates. Of course, gender is a social expression while sex is a physical expression, so gender can have its own template.
For example, women possessed Social Stigma (Valuable Property) [-10] throughout the majority of human written history, meaning that the base gender template for women was worth -10 CP. In some societies, women possessed Social Stigma (Subjugated) [-20], though societies that nasty to their women usually did not last that long. In any case, it was only during the 20th century that biases against women went from Social Stigmas possessed by the afflicted women to Intolerances possessed by other people. |
06-08-2019, 08:10 AM | #35 | |
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In fact the example of Warrior has two lenses: Heroic (-9 points) and Knight (+3 points) with both adding disadvantages. |
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06-08-2019, 06:59 PM | #37 |
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06-08-2019, 07:27 PM | #38 |
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Re: Sexually Dimorphic Races [Fantasy]
Patrons have to have a minimum of 50% higher point value, which most of them would not be that much more capable than their daughters/wives (a serf was a serf, whether a man or a woman). And that assumes that their husbands/father felt obligations beyond what an owner felt to their property (otherwise, every slave has a Patron in their owner).
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06-08-2019, 08:53 PM | #39 |
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Re: Sexually Dimorphic Races [Fantasy]
Calling women Valuable Property overstates their disadvantage in much of medieval Europe, and also some times in the Roman Empire, and in many other times and places. Second-Class Citizen fits better better, IMO.
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06-08-2019, 10:56 PM | #40 |
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Re: Sexually Dimorphic Races [Fantasy]
But that is not the majority of written history, just the part that most people in America and Europe are interested in.
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