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* Early forms of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' had different attribute caps for strength depending on gender, only allowing males to reach the human cap of 18/00 while limiting females to 18/50, with females never really getting anything to compensate. Then again, [[Honest Rolls Character|when a character is generated according to the rules]], even a male only has a 1-in-450 chance of getting above 18/50 strength, so this isn't much of a functional disadvantage.
* In ''[[FATAL]]'', men are favored to the point of outright misogyny. There's no benefit whatsoever in playing as a woman unless you really stretch the rules. Well, there are some details that could qualify as benefits but they're overwhelmed by the explicit (in every way imaginable) disadvantages. Weirdly enough, for all the time Byron Hall spent writing up rules about how women are functionally retarded and weak as kittens with scurvy, he didn't bother giving them a penalty to the urination skill, which... yeah. It's just that kind of game.
* ''[[The Spawn of Fashan]]'' has the same kind of problem. In this one, male characters roll their characteristics "normally", but a female character's strength, constitution and hit points are ''halved'', their charisma is multiplied by 1.5, and they automatically get an undefined ability called "intuition". The blank character sheet provided with the game also assumes your character will always be male, as there's no place on it to indicate your character is ''female''. (Meanwhile, elsewhere in the short booklet of rules, the author [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|vehemently insists neither he nor his rules are sexist]].)
* At least one [[Professional Wrestling]] RPG did this too, if your female fought a male. Oddly, the [[World Wrestling Entertainment]] licenced game only did this with weight. And as weight can be assigned (and substitutes for "race" in other RPGs), there really isn't anything (aside from snarky GMs) stopping you from building a heavyweight title contender who, while having Testicular Fortitude, lacks testicles.
* In ''The Greenland Saga'' by Avalanche Press, females get -3 Strength, +1 Dexterity and +1 Constitution, with a sidebar saying (not a paraphrase) that "Life is not fair. Deal with it."
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