What are we thinking about this one KIA2?
After sometime with it. Regardless of if/if not you believe it's woke trash I will absolutely hand them credit for not having MTX and having a (mostly) complete game at launch.
Now on to the other shit...
Wokeness - Honestly? Sure there's a bit of it sprinkled on (Pronouns) but I can confidently say at this point that it never felt like it was forced down my throat or that woke topics were an inherently "positive" thing to witness. Even the flamboyant gay characters like Astarion seem to be there for comedic release and "playersexual" has been a thing since Dragon Age: Origins.
It appears to me that the dev's cared a little less about pushing a message and more of: "I'm going to just throw my hands up, do what you want!" All of the interactions in the game seem less set to follow "ThE MeSsAgE" and more to allow the player to "Have at it!". I mean hell, if I see some faggots or some niggers I can straight up delete em cause Paladin go brrrrrr.
All in all, I've been enjoying it. More than Armored Core and Starfield thus far.
(Armored Core VI fucking blows donkey dick also. Not a bad game, but sure as fuck isn't AC.)
You know, my memory wants to insist that the original D&D, the version that came in a box with the cheap blue dice and a sample map or two, did have rules for different sexes, at least for humans, and that it was AD&D that changed it (and also got rid of a bunch of other restrictive things, and allowed dual-classes, etc ... og D&D really got overshadowed by its younger brother fast), but it's probably another misremembering (I owned the box set, but wound up playing AD&D 2nd when I finally had people to play with.)
I had the same impression, I checked and AD&D first edition had lower maximum strength scores for women.
I have the AD&D book and I think it still had differences but I'm to lazy to open the book, I think it was AD&D second edition that removed the differences.