You seem to be confusing equality with the ideology of sameness. The races have the same number of points, distributed differently and are therefore equal.
Because maybe people want to play as a strong female character instead of getting a personality boost?
Also, combat attributes are way more useful. Women are already less represented in video games, in games like Morrowind where there’s a choice you shouldn’t feel like you have to choose between representation and better stats. Anyways, the idea that females get personality bonuses is pretty stupid in the first place, PLENTY of women struggle socially and there isn’t much of a basis for females getting a personality bonus other than a consolidation for the fact that females are weaker in a fictional race. Maybe I want to role play as a socially anxious female Dunmer.
The problem with sexual dimorphism in video games is it shoehorns people into a role based on generalizations. This mod helps work to correct that, and there’s nothing forcing you to install it.
Nicely done. I like doing vanilla plus playthroughs and thought the gender system in game was a bit archaic and a bit overwhelming to account for in making builds so kudos to you for making this. Although, Argonians willpower is still mismatched just to let you know. I also came up with a more neutral description if you are interested.
"At home in water and on land, the Argonians of Black Marsh are well-suited to the treacherous swamps of their homeland, with natural immunities protecting them from disease and poison. Argonians are highly intelligent, and gifted in the magical arts. They can be aggressive when provoked and have the traits of the hunter: stealth, speed, and agility. Argonians are reserved with strangers, yet fiercely loyal to those they accept as friends."
This is a great idea for a mod. I'd recommend disregarding the negative comments left here by others. For some reason, the Morrowind modding community has seen an influx of immature trolls (and that's putting it very politely) over the past several years. Keep at it, I'd like to see more from you in the future.
While the arguments against mods like these have been debunked time and time again, they haven't been done in these mod comments, so allow me.
There have never been any studies which prove that human males on Earth are biologically predisposed to higher amounts of strength, or that human females on Earth are biologically predisposed to greater social skills. An observed increase in upper body muscle mass in Earth-bound human males might stem from nurture instead of nature due to the socialization differences between genders and the effects activities we partake in have on the hormones we produce and the way those hormones change our bodies as we grow. In other words, there is no definitive proof that human males on Earth are physically stronger than human females on Earth because of their Y chromosome, and those differences might be caused instead by factors that are not innately biological.
Moreover, even in human beings on earth, the averages that are often cited by people attempting to use science in an incomplete way to justify their own generalizations are exactly that. They are averages. There are human males on Earth that carry less muscle mass than human females on Earth, and there are human females on Earth who do not excel in the social skills that might otherwise give them a reputation for having a better personality. A gender based stat system shoehorns in generalizations that aren't very accurate even on Earth and in humans.
Last, this is not Earth. The physical world space, the culture, and the races need not adhere to badly defined averages with no known causality from human beings on Earth. Your personal viewpoints on gender equality on earth and how we might tackle those issues have literally no bearing on the usefulness or appropriateness of this mod for Morrowind.
I searched for for the exact same thing years ago but I couldnt find anything. The stats for women in morrowind are basically always worse than their male counterparts. I currently use another mod, "Balanced Passive Races and Birthsigns", that does the same exact thing and a bit more. For powergamers (that also want to play as women in their games) this is a must download.
Strength and Endurance are just much better in vanilla morrowind than the rest of the stats due to healthscaling. A high level character that rushed STR & END is categorically better than a character with the same level and stat-distribution that didnt rush leveling STR & END.
If you don't like what this mod does, don't download it. Stop searching "gender" and coming in here to have an argument. Do you do this with every mod you disagree with?
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Also, combat attributes are way more useful. Women are already less represented in video games, in games like Morrowind where there’s a choice you shouldn’t feel like you have to choose between representation and better stats. Anyways, the idea that females get personality bonuses is pretty stupid in the first place, PLENTY of women struggle socially and there isn’t much of a basis for females getting a personality bonus other than a consolidation for the fact that females are weaker in a fictional race. Maybe I want to role play as a socially anxious female Dunmer.
The problem with sexual dimorphism in video games is it shoehorns people into a role based on generalizations. This mod helps work to correct that, and there’s nothing forcing you to install it.
"At home in water and on land, the Argonians of Black Marsh are well-suited to the treacherous swamps of their homeland, with natural immunities protecting them from disease and poison. Argonians are highly intelligent, and gifted in the magical arts. They can be aggressive when provoked and have the traits of the hunter: stealth, speed, and agility. Argonians are reserved with strangers, yet fiercely loyal to those they accept as friends."
Edit: This mod may also need to be cleaned too
and i blocked everyone who trolled, its nbd
There have never been any studies which prove that human males on Earth are biologically predisposed to higher amounts of strength, or that human females on Earth are biologically predisposed to greater social skills. An observed increase in upper body muscle mass in Earth-bound human males might stem from nurture instead of nature due to the socialization differences between genders and the effects activities we partake in have on the hormones we produce and the way those hormones change our bodies as we grow. In other words, there is no definitive proof that human males on Earth are physically stronger than human females on Earth because of their Y chromosome, and those differences might be caused instead by factors that are not innately biological.
Moreover, even in human beings on earth, the averages that are often cited by people attempting to use science in an incomplete way to justify their own generalizations are exactly that. They are averages. There are human males on Earth that carry less muscle mass than human females on Earth, and there are human females on Earth who do not excel in the social skills that might otherwise give them a reputation for having a better personality. A gender based stat system shoehorns in generalizations that aren't very accurate even on Earth and in humans.
Last, this is not Earth. The physical world space, the culture, and the races need not adhere to badly defined averages with no known causality from human beings on Earth. Your personal viewpoints on gender equality on earth and how we might tackle those issues have literally no bearing on the usefulness or appropriateness of this mod for Morrowind.
TL;DR: Ok boomer.
Love the mod! Thanks!
Strength and Endurance are just much better in vanilla morrowind than the rest of the stats due to healthscaling. A high level character that rushed STR & END is categorically better than a character with the same level and stat-distribution that didnt rush leveling STR & END.