Oh I just checked the wiki for morrowing and oblivion and apparently that’s not true either. The really weird and random thing is that redguards and nords have inferior personality stats. Except for redguard women. Variety I guess?
Yeah, TES is different from most RPGs because half it’s races are just humans. One thing is saying the elf has a bonus to dexterity and the dwarf has a bonus to constitution. You can buy that without being mired in phrenology shit. Another is saying the Black Human has a bonus to Agility and the Olive-Skinned Human has a bonus to Personality. It’s just weird, even though the way attributes work in the Elder Scrolls is much softer than in other RPGs.
And then there’s sexism. Really, really old tabletop RPGs (think 70s era D&D) gave women lower strength maximuns and higher charisma maximuns. It also renamed Charisma into Beauty for female characters. It didn’t even take that long for D&D to outgrow this sort of thing (really what’s the point of imposing stat caps on gnomes and women if everyone is a fantasy hero with impossible fitness anyways). What’s really sad is the eternally seething internet chud willing to revalue the eccentricities of the past as something worthy of a pedestal. All because ‘le sjws added trans people to my whatever current edition of D&D is’.
