Do you think there will be a difference in gameplay between playing males and females? Like maybe female characters aren't as strong, but are much more nimble and quick?

Thoughts?

Edit: Sorry for spelling, damn iPhone autocurrent.

Edit2: Damnit.

Bruce: Gender does not change any initial skills or abilities. There is nothing that men do better than women or vice versa in the game. Other characters will recognize your gender and address you properly. Some may have prejudices for or against a particular gender as a part of their character, but it won’t change what you can or can’t do.

Only in with people who have very confined views of gender roles.

Female warrior, crushes many heads with waraxe, especially rude men. :tongue: always fun rp.

if you want to play a weaker, more agile female there is nothing stopping you.

If you want to play as Barbarella (sp?) nothing stopping you either! :starwars:

Just think it would be cool if we had gender bonuses. Not sixist, just more in line with realism and shnit

More real would be men a bit stronger/faster while women are hardier/multi-tasker

That isn't realism.

Characters of heroic quality don't use population median statistics for a baseline. :laugh:

Especially ones from a different universe, and cultures.

Well there are differences between our genders...

as a statistic. You're kinda suggesting clamping down people's characters to a statistical median. :laugh:

its influenced by a lot of factors that may or may not apply in a fantasy world. Things like culture, assumed gender roles, physical attributes.

It was just a generic example mate. How else can we differ by gender in a game? When a lady character sees a bunny she says "Awwww", or every once in a while a male character does the "scratch nuts" animation?

I'm not sixist, in many ways my girlfriend is a superior being to me, but I do think it would be pretty cool if we had gender bonuses. It makes sense, men and women are not exactly the same. It's biology.

However you're still anthropomorphizing onto an alien race(s!) of people in a fictional fantasy universe... Not the same species, setting.

Game play wise its pretty bad; you're cutting off people's choices to play "exceptional" characters by imposing limits to their gameplay via gender. :laugh:

The strength thing was an example. Ok if it's against the rules of modern society to do that example, how about bonuses instead?

Maybe what I'm asking is too much realism. Or maybe the world is still afraid to acknowledge men and women aren't the same. I shall take my views, put them inside a bag, and show myself the way out.

This was in OB. It never told you, but there were stat differences. Check UESP for full details, all I loosely remember is that men often had more strength, and woman, more intelligence.

I don't think you're catching what I'm saying. :laugh: at all.

You are measuring the quality of people by an average statistic; a number. Individuals can and will deviate from that number. People are most certainly not planning to play as mr./ms. average in all ways person (dragon born!).

Are you suggesting that *all* women, no matter the background, upbringing, genetics, (or even species!) to be weaker than the average male. ? :flamethrower:



Yea, but everyone had a stat limit of 100; no attributes in skyrim, so you might end up imposing an upper limit.

If what you saying is true, then the numbers are meaningless anyway, regardless of gender. I'm not saying all men are stronger than all women, that would make me an idiot. What I am saying, is it would be nice for a game to acknowledge that there is a difference between us, instead of this P.C. bull crap that were all exactly the same.