Medium characters grappling large creatures?

[Gwarok]

Ok, I'm sure this has been asked and answered somewhere, but I'm bad at looking up old threads. The grapple rules say you can attempt it on creatures one size larger, but is there a penalty stated somewhere or some advantage to being bigger than your opponent? Seems like it would grant advantage, and I seem to recall some ability or feat that said something like "larger creatures no longer automatically succeed on escaping your grapple" but I can't remember where I saw that. Thanks.

 

[Yunru]

Nope.
There was the Grappler feat, but that was just sloppy proof-reading since the rule it refereed to had previously been dropped and was, iirc, about creatures two sizes larger than you.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

If a character attempts to grapple a large (or bigger) creature they are attempting to ride on it.

 

[Yunru]

If a character attempts to grapple a large (or bigger) creature they are attempting to ride on it.

Citation, etc.
Because not according to the core rules. Or the DMG variants, those start at Giant.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Citation, etc.
Because not according to the core rules. Or the DMG variants, those start at Giant.

Citation: me just now.

I'm the DM I make the rules.

 

[Oofta]

There are no official rules for penalties or bonuses for size differences that I know of. Personally I grant advantage if there are more than 2 size categories different, but that's a house rule.

 

[Yunru]

Citation: me just now.

I'm the DM I make the rules.

You're not his DM so... no?

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

5e grappling rules are awful.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I can't remember an edition that handled grappling well.

 

[Oofta]

I can't remember an edition that handled grappling well.

I was just going to say the same thing. I had a grappler in 3.5 that was completely broken even at fairly low levels without even trying. I wasn't the only one, it didn't even take a great deal of system expertise or min/maxing.

Whether or not grappling being so inconsequential in all but a few edge cases in 5E is personal preference of course.