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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8381235" data-attributes="member: 7025508">I want first to correct a common misconception. Halflings are not size of a chimpanzee. People commonly assume that chimps are far smaller than they actually are as in a lot of films and shows they use young bonono chimps, as those are far easier to handle and are far less dangerous if they get angry. An adult chimpanzee is four to five feet tall and males weight sixty or so kilos. Their muscle structure makes them about 1.5 times as strong as human pound for pound, meaning that adult male chimp is probably stronger than an average human. A halfling sized small chimp would still be weaker than an average human though.And yes, for fictional world you can make up magical or similar reason why a small creature might be stronger than they appear, a big creature weaker than they appear and so forth. But to me it starts to get pretty farcical if these weird fantasy reasons seem to always conspire to make it so that all the sapient species just happen to have the exact same range of capability in all areas of competence. Dozens of species, looking wildly different, being wildly different sizes and they all just happen to have the exact same range of capability in everything! What are the odds!I actually want the rules to try to represent the differences instead of coming up excuses why the differences wouldn't exist. And I repeat the same point I've said many times in many threads: ultimately there is no point of having fantasy species if they cannot be different than humans. We already have humans that are like humans.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8381235, member: 7025508"] I want first to correct a common misconception. Halflings are not size of a chimpanzee. People commonly assume that chimps are far smaller than they actually are as in a lot of films and shows they use young bonono chimps, as those are far easier to handle and are [I]far less dangerous[/I] if they get angry. An adult chimpanzee is four to five feet tall and males weight sixty or so kilos. Their muscle structure makes them about 1.5 times as strong as human [I]pound for pound, [/I]meaning that adult male chimp is probably stronger than an average human. A halfling sized small chimp would still be weaker than an average human though. And yes, for fictional world you can make up magical or similar reason why a small creature might be stronger than they appear, a big creature weaker than they appear and so forth. But to me it starts to get pretty farcical if these weird fantasy reasons seem to always conspire to make it so that all the sapient species [I]just happen to have[/I] the exact same range of capability in all areas of competence. Dozens of species, looking wildly different, being wildly different sizes and they all just happen to have the exact same range of capability in everything! What are the odds! I actually want the rules to try to represent the differences instead of coming up excuses why the differences wouldn't exist. And I repeat the same point I've said many times in many threads: ultimately there is no point of having fantasy species if they cannot be different than humans. We already have humans that are like humans. [/QUOTE]

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