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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6258143" data-attributes="member: 3400">That's definitely not true. Tabletop RPGs depend on a certain amount of verisimilitude because they're open to so many options. Without verisimilitude, how does a GM make a player-predictable ruling when the game steps outside the written rules? That said, verisimilitude could easily conclude that smaller races should be generally slower. However, it's also clear that the speeds of medium races isn't pushing the limits of human ability. So it's easy to say that the smaller races just push themselves a little bit more to keep up and are able to do so because of their surprising hardiness. And they would have to be surprisingly hardy for their sizes to be adventurous and pulling their weight alongside humans, elves, and orcs. Personally, I'd consider giving them a slightly slower top run speed if anything. Ultimately, verisimilitude can come up with multiple, conflicting answers depending on how you rationalize how the game rule models reality or realistic expectations. And that's OK. There's not that much difference between a movement rate of 20, 25, and 30. Fuzziness in what verisimilitude produces is OK.And for anybody wondering why goblins move at medium speed while other small races move slower in 3e and PF - my gut suspicion is it's a Tolkien nod reflecting the surprising speed of the Misty Mountain goblins.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 6258143, member: 3400"] That's definitely not true. Tabletop RPGs [b]depend[/b] on a certain amount of verisimilitude because they're open to so many options. Without verisimilitude, how does a GM make a player-predictable ruling when the game steps outside the written rules? That said, verisimilitude could easily conclude that smaller races should be generally slower. However, it's also clear that the speeds of medium races isn't pushing the limits of human ability. So it's easy to say that the smaller races just push themselves a little bit more to keep up and are able to do so because of their surprising hardiness. And they would have to be surprisingly hardy for their sizes to be adventurous and pulling their weight alongside humans, elves, and orcs. Personally, I'd consider giving them a slightly slower top run speed if anything. Ultimately, verisimilitude can come up with multiple, conflicting answers depending on how you rationalize how the game rule models reality or realistic expectations. And that's OK. There's not that much difference between a movement rate of 20, 25, and 30. Fuzziness in what verisimilitude produces is OK. And for anybody wondering why goblins move at medium speed while other small races move slower in 3e and PF - my gut suspicion is it's a Tolkien nod reflecting the surprising speed of the Misty Mountain goblins. [/QUOTE]

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