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[Reynard]

*especially strength, or certainly max lift and other quantifiable things of which a giant genuinely should be better at than a pixie.

D&D Strength isn't really "strength" though. it is more like "Physical prowess" that covers athleticism and close combat. I think you can use traits like Large Frame to emulate the carrying/lifting capacity element.

 

[Gradine]

Plot armor as a player-side game mechanic is genius and more games should make use of it

 

[Reynard]

Plot armor as a player-side game mechanic is genius and more games should make use of it

Ick.

 

[Aldarc]

Most players don't care about your world-building efforts and results.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

You mean like this? That is just the weird things for measuring distance. I "need" a similar one for weights and volume...

A Stone is a unit of weight. Horsepower is...how many horses it takes to pull something. But now I'm super-educated on units of distance. Thank-you!

Edit: oh, you meant a similar VIDEO for units of weight? Yeah, I'd watch that.

 

[Faolyn]

the amount of disbelief i'm met with when i try to explain to people that MCU's captain america is actually Chaotic Good, that just because he has morals and works with the government and commends following the law does not make him lawful, so much of his films involve him disobeying authority and breaking rules just to do what he thinks is 'morally right' or to help a friend.

I'd buy it. I mean, his first movie he's breaking the law just to get into the army in the first place.

 

[Willie the Duck]

D&D Strength isn't really "strength" though. it is more like "Physical prowess" that covers athleticism and close combat. I think you can use traits like Large Frame to emulate the carrying/lifting capacity element.

That's why I qualified it with the 'or at least max lift' bit. I think it is widely reasonable that a giant or horse should be able to lift or carry more than a halfling*. What Str (or any of the D&D attributes) really is is less clear cut and my feelings get more complicated and get more qualifiers as we discuss shoulds and coulds (and of course as I've said many times I'd like to jettison or modify huge parts of what attributes even do in the game). *Unless we decide that high-level halflings discretely ought to have supernormal raw ability, cue discussion re: high-level martials.

 

[Gradine]

Horsepower is...how many horses it takes to pull something.

It is... much more complicated then that. Technically it is 33,000 foot-pounds per minute, which sounds arbitrary but is based on a formula that is also... weirdly arbitrary (specifically, "the amount of work required from a horse to pull 150 pounds out of a hole 220 feet deep").

The typical horse can produce up to 15 horsepower on its own over the short term.

 

[Velderan]

Good point. I'll add to my previous statement:
Us being consistent with the rest of the world is superior to forcing the entire world to be consistent with us.

There's a rest of the world..?

Now we're really drifting into unpopular opinions. This thread has gone too far!

 

[Lanefan]

Counterpoint, Lanefan Edition
2) My players tend to land less on the "interesting and entertaining" side and more on the "creepy and ethically-questionable" side.

Who's to say those things aren't one and the same?

Ethically-questionable? Bring it on! Ethically-bankrupt? Sure, why not?

7) Hard disagree.

So how do Humans not become completely sub-optimal, if every other species gets bonuses without drawbacks while Humans, as the baseline, stay flat?

Or if Humans do get, say, a +1 bonus somewhere, then the baseline has shifted such that +1 = 0 and 0 = -1. It's still a penalty, only better hidden.