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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClaytonCross" data-source="post: 7577490" data-attributes="member: 6880599">Here is the thing. If your GM is giving the advantage to the large sized attacker for longer limbs providing greater leverage to counter strength, greater reach to cover dexterity, and greater mass making it harder to resist them by pushing them around (since 2 opponents of equal strength pushing each other will make the one of lighter mass move back everything else being even and larger opponent is simply limits space by preventing removing space which you might otherwise maneuver into) he has a valid reason but there is no RAW that requires it. It is just a judgement call. The same with 4 legs. If your GM says the ground is sturdy, so do to mass and leverage it has advantage .. sure that is with in his right to call that. Your GM could just as easily go the other way with it thought. He could argue the smaller target has advantage due to the larger opponent being off balance and using poor body structure to grapple at something so low. A horse with four legs but hard hooves might have his weight spread out and difficulty gaining traction on the slightly muddy top soil resulting in it slipping around giving the smaller opponent with lower center of gravity and its weight focused more closely together the advantage of better traction. Ultimately, there is no rule on this. Just a GM call. If your having issue with it because it comes up regularly in your games the best and really only thing you can do is talk the your GM about it and explain that its making the game less fun for you. Hopefully your GM listens and stops granting it all the time at the very least. Maybe Narrate how your character drops low to make it harder for the larger creature to reach you. No amount of forum discussion will change your GMs mind or create a rule that will allow you to avoid this. I hope your GM is a reasonable person to talk to and not a "my way or the high way" type but I fear if your posting this here you already tried and it didn't go well. Good luck. Sorry there is no rule to help you but D&D really is always the GMs world and the players just live in it. Best any of us can hope for is  reasonable GM who listens.</blockquote>

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