Link on how to make generic trash:
Diversity means everyone is the same but they look different:
"Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world."
New character races don’t have the Ability Score Increase trait that Player’s Handbook races have. The new races instead rely on a special character-creation rule that allows a character to increase one ability score by 2 and another score by 1 or to increase three different ability scores by 1.
Generic Humanoids bear the words “Any Alignment,” reminding the DM that such people have vast moral range.
That one word—“typically”—reminds the DM that the alignment is a narrative suggestion; it isn’t an existential absolute.
That sounds just like something Marx would say /s
Yeah sounds like he was saying this is a game.
No being a game would have been: "no limits on female strength" leftist: no baseless limits arbitrarily placed on female strength
There is a reason for having a limit on strength for women characters and you can chose not to do that but it is neither baseless nor arbitrarily.
What a shit post. If you'd read the book you'd know female humans do in fact have a strength cap. He made fun of women's lib a bit in OD&D too.
If that is the case then I stand corrected.
Using that statement to back up the claim he is a leftist is a stretch. The fbi actually had a report on him and labeled him a libertarian. And he was a pretty outspoken gun collector, not a typical hobby of leftist. You can have reasons for placing a limit on female characters strength. You could also not have it and it not be anymore less than just a game. We have a world where dragons and mythical creatures exist, but we can’t have a female player character with abnormal strength for a woman.
It’s like saying chain mail bikinis are immersion breaking. That’s the line? Not the guy in a blue bath robe casting fire balls at a goblin?
Do I roll my eyes when I see female action heroes beat the crap out of men 3 times their size? Yes I do. But I’m not going to say Gygax was a leftist because he said we don’t have a rule that all female characters have to have a negative strength modifier.
Don’t they also say in the book if you don’t like a rule feel free to replace it with something that works for your group? That’s like the least left wing rule there can be.
Your overriding argument isn't wrong, but this part is easily one of the dumbest things people can say in this context.