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<blockquote data-quote="Syrsuro" data-source="post: 4451006" data-attributes="member: 58162"><p>You are right. If the weight of characters was actually in any way related to their strength, the average fighter would weigh 220#. <em>But in <s>reality</s> D&D it does not. </em> In reality (in my experience) most players give their characters weights that are 200# or lower. </p><p> </p><p>Especially when the PHB lists the weight range for humans as 135 to 220 pounds, putting weights over 200# at the very high end of the range.</p></p><p> </p><p>It was this tendency that led to my assertion about the weight of the average fighter - not assumptions as to what the real-world equivalent strength would weigh as that is irrelevant to the game rules.</p><p>So, you really don't see the difference between making a ruling on facts that are not part of the RAW (the weight capacity of a Rage Drake) versus making changes to the rules as they are written. <em>Really</em>. You don't see a difference. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Both are certainly allowed, but they differ significantly in the extent to which they are 'changing' the rules (technically, my approach doesn't change a single rule of the game).</p><p>I'm all for house rules. I just don't agree either with the OP that there is a problem or with your approach. (If you had suggested adding 100# to the carry weight I would have agreed that was a valid approach. It was the ludicrous 720# that got my attention, as well as the later mistaken logic - suggesting changing the overall formula (crossing into <strong>major</strong> overhaul of the gamerules) behind that number into a formula that wasn't correct in any version).</p><p> </p><p>Actually, I said quite a bit more than that. I gave facts as support FOR my opinion (information from external sources on the real-world weight capacity of horses, the fact that Rage Drakes are included in Dragonborn encounters, differences in Rage Drake anatomy (based on the visual image in the text), etc.)</p><p> </p><p>Actually, I think I was for the most part pretty clear about what was fact and was inference from that fact. </p><p> </p><p> Ok, when I stated that Dragonborn on Rage Drakes were cooler I didn't explicitely clarify that that part was opinion - but I thought that was implied.</p></p><p>Carl</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Syrsuro, post: 4451006, member: 58162"] You are right. If the weight of characters was actually in any way related to their strength, the average fighter would weigh 220#. [I]But in [s]reality[/s] D&D it does not. [/I] In reality (in my experience) most players give their characters weights that are 200# or lower. Especially when the PHB lists the weight range for humans as 135 to 220 pounds, putting weights over 200# at the very high end of the range.</p> It was this tendency that led to my assertion about the weight of the average fighter - not assumptions as to what the real-world equivalent strength would weigh as that is irrelevant to the game rules. So, you really don't see the difference between making a ruling on facts that are not part of the RAW (the weight capacity of a Rage Drake) versus making changes to the rules as they are written. [I]Really[/I]. You don't see a difference. Both are certainly allowed, but they differ significantly in the extent to which they are 'changing' the rules (technically, my approach doesn't change a single rule of the game). I'm all for house rules. I just don't agree either with the OP that there is a problem or with your approach. (If you had suggested adding 100# to the carry weight I would have agreed that was a valid approach. It was the ludicrous 720# that got my attention, as well as the later mistaken logic - suggesting changing the overall formula (crossing into [B]major[/B] overhaul of the gamerules) behind that number into a formula that wasn't correct in any version). Actually, I said quite a bit more than that. I gave facts as support FOR my opinion (information from external sources on the real-world weight capacity of horses, the fact that Rage Drakes are included in Dragonborn encounters, differences in Rage Drake anatomy (based on the visual image in the text), etc.) Actually, I think I was for the most part pretty clear about what was fact and was inference from that fact. Ok, when I stated that Dragonborn on Rage Drakes were cooler I didn't explicitely clarify that that part was opinion - but I thought that was implied.</p> Carl [/QUOTE]
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