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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5142230" data-attributes="member: 4720">Then we are back to a contradiction.  What if I want a muscular race to not have inherent, largely counter-intuitive bonuses to hitting things?Fiddling with +2 strength vs +4 strength has a larger in-game impact on combat effectiveness than its in-narrative effect on flavor warrants.To bring back the very relevant chimp example.... note that the chimp has a different distribution of fast and slow twitch muscle fibers than a human.  When it comes time to throw down and tear something's arms off, the chimp has more applicable strength.  When it comes time to pick up a heavy backpack and carry it around, the human has more applicable strength.Oh... so y'all are tracking combat damage and carry weight with the same stat and then complaining that there are rules problems and logical disconnects?  Where there's your problem.  If you actually wanted to simulate, you'd have several more stats in there to tease those apart.  If you're not inclined to simulate to that extent... i.e. you are willing to hand-wave the distribution of muscle fibers, proportions of the limbs, and so on... then you have to be willing to also hand-wave the precise size of the stat bonuses if you want to keep combat balanced.</blockquote>