doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
The human torso doesn’t have to lift 600lbs of hanging horse, because that isn’t what would be happening, first of all. But I’ve explained that a dozen times in this thread.Wrong.
"Below the waist, they have the bodies of small horses, with a similar range of coloration- from various shades of chestnut or bay to dappled or even zebra-like striped patterns."
They HAVE the bodies of horses. Not they have bodies that look like horses. It's not relevant if they are not in fact horses. The body IS a horse and therefore has all the limitations of a horse. The humanoid torso is not capable of lifting 600 pounds of hanging horse up a sheer wall, so it doesn't matter when it comes to climbing up walls and cliffs.
And if you’re going to take casual text like that that literally, then there is no point even having this discussion. But that isn’t how the rules, especially flavor text, is meant to be read, and you know it.
The idea that a centaur is necessarily limited to only things a horse could do is patently absurd.