D&D General Carrying and dragging stuff

[aco175]

Are there many judo movies where 10 year olds don’t to fully grown athletic adults? Not a push (5ft) I know kids can do that to adults - but a full momentum guiding?

If 5e wants to tell me that any halfling can be as strong as any orc or goliath since being 1/8th the mass of someone does not matter, than it is one of the things I can fight or just go with.

There are a lot of things that do not make sense when looked at with a lot of depth.

 

[bedir than]

If 5e wants to tell me that any halfling can be as strong as any orc or goliath since being 1/8th the mass of someone does not matter, than it is one of the things I can fight or just go with.

There are a lot of things that do not make sense when looked at with a lot of depth.

5e doesn't say this about goliaths

 

[touc]

Below are my DM "cheat notes" for our current 2024 D&D campaign on grappling. I don't adhere to a 2017 Twitter post by Crawford that makes no sense (claiming that moving a grappled creature only depends on the target's size, not the grappler's strength). This is congruent with the OP's concern with STR impacting grappling.

• Grappling, movable (clarification). When you drag your target in a particular direction, the target controls where it is moved within the 90-degree spectrum behind you. It cannot choose a spot that would invalidate the grapple. Courtesy Treatmonk.

• When you carry your target, you choose what square the target is deposited in when you end your movement.
• Carrying & dragging targets are subject to the Carrying Capacity rules(PHB 363), so you must be strong enough to move your target.
  • The rules specifically use drag & carry, which are Capacity terms, no matter what Jeremy Crawford on Twitter said in 2017. If I can’t carry or drag 500 pounds normally, why would I be able to do it while grappling something? Makes no sense. This should also “fix” unintended movement abuses such as Spike Growth shredding.
• (errata). Grappler can freely let go at any time.