[Lev Lafayette]

Originally Posted by yoacusna

Giving women a dexterity bonus seems distinctly odd. Evidence suggests that women tend to slightly less agile than men. Endurance would, as has been mentioned, make rather more sense.

Whether or not woman are given a bonus or penalty on certain traits really depends on the designer's creative agenda. If the designer wants to emphasise certain traits as being "female" as part of a plot device (e.g., like Clive Barker's Imajica or Norman Spinrad's The Void Captains tale) then it should be treated as a narrative issue. If it the designer wants to treat a game as a realistic simulation, then it's probably important to lean towards real-world figures.

Which does lead me to ask, what evidence do you have that women are less agile than men? It would seem from the results of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships">2006 World Artistic Gymnastics</a> that the women scored much better than the men.