Gygax lied to us!

Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:33 am

I thought this was funny. Reading through the 1E PHB today, and on pg. 6, Gary writes:

"You will find no pretentious dictums herein, no baseless limits arbitrarily placed on female strength..."

Then turn to pg. 9, where it states:

15 - Maximum strength for a female gnome character
16 - Maximum strength for a female elf character
17 - Maximum strength for a female dwarf character

And so on and so forth. LOL!

Post by **Beowulf** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 4:54 am

He didn't lie...he exaggerated!

Post by **Mira** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:23 pm

The key word is baseless, I'm sure he had some kind of base involved

It IS a fact that the strongest man is stronger than the strongest woman. Doesn't mean women can't be strong, but not as strong on the average.

I can honestly say that never bothered me. There were other things far more bothersome than that.

Mira (Never go to bed mad, stay up and fight)