The DM of an every Friday, D&D 3.5 game this week disallowed one player from playing an 18 STR female fighter, who the player described as "tone but not too muscled, sort of like a stripper's body." In comments overheard during the game, the DM stated that he did not have a problem with a high strength female character "if she looked like she could benchpress 400 lbs." but that he "isn't cool with 18 STR for a character that looks like a runway waif who happens to be holding a sword."
The player was not happy with this news since he said he wasn't interested in playing a warrior with a more likely 10 or 12 strength score since the mechanics of the game makes anyone with a primary ability of under 16 pretty much worthless.
The DM also had a problem with what he deemed an attempt on the player's part to min-max the character by giving her a 6 CHA. The DM stated that he did not buy the player's argument that "despite being like the hottest chick you can imagine, she has a low Charisma because she's really cold and not too talkative." As the DM put it, "shouldn't being like a 20 on uber-hotness and a little bitchy sort of balance at about a CHA 14?" But the player didn't want to put that many points in Charisma since the stat is all but useless to the Fighter class.
The DM also expressed some concern over the player wanting the full armor rating for a chain shirt that barely provided enough coverage for a PG-13 rating.
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