From: Nils Hammer (nh0g+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Wed 06 Jul 1994 - 18:41:45 EEST
This is from Nils K. Hammer, one of those Pittsburghers
Since the subject of women in role playing games is still around I thought I should mention that I have revised my idea of appropriate stats for rolling female characters, which we discussed some time ago. I had forgotten about the Victorian era circus-woman who lifted elephants. Ok, she only lifted one elephant at a time, but I find it noteworthy. Women are -2 SIZ. As others have noted here they often do more work than men, so maybe +1 CON. Any other stat differences should be by culturally derived stat training.
I hope that Glorantha has a few moderately repressive places. Otherwise my Dark Lady feminist revolutionary cult will not get many new recruits and Clio the Whip lady will be just another party-girl/sorceress.
A bit more seriously, please remember that there are many different ways cultures have of fitting in the unusual people. In some RW places the shaman is always a transvestite. The simple expedient of declaring someone to _be_ a member of the opposite sex has been done in the RW as the simplest solution. One of Paul Reilly's most useful NPCs was Rutger Redbeard. In her barbarian culture men were adventurers, so she "became" a man. She also became a frightening illuminated schizophrenic hero, but that is another story.
Nils K. Hammer
nh0g@andrew.cmu.edu
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