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> Females as strong as males were "unrealistic"... In a game where you can shoot fireballs, travel through dimensions, go back in time, and resurrect the dead..
by Mawr 2y ago
> Females as strong as males were "unrealistic"... In a game where you can shoot fireballs, travel through dimensions, go back in time, and resurrect the dead....
A tired argument in gaming and fiction in general.
Whatever your fictional world, it needs to have an internally consistent ruleset. Typically these worlds are modelled after our own and only the differences are highlighted, so the assumption is that unless explicitly mentioned, the rules are the same as on Earth.
For example, you can't use the existence of magic in a fictional world to argue there may as well be aircraft flying around too.
The strength of women vs men is no different, it's not like some Earth deity has arbitrarily decided that females are to be weaker. There are a lot of biological reasons why that is so. If these are not changed in the fictional world to be able to support the existence of equally strong females, then your world becomes less internally consistent.
- nhinck3 2y agoWhat biological changes have happened has made it so a human can jump 7.5 meters forward (or 2 meters upwards) decked out in full plate mail?
- bjourne 2y agoI have never played a fantasy game where characters regularly had to take a dump (maybe Dwarf Fortress has defecation but it's more of a simulator game than an rpg). Yet the lack of shitting in fantasy games has not caused hordes of nerds to scream about how it is internally inconsistent that players can eat, but not shit. And yes there are actual aircraft flying around in many fantasy worlds.