Children as heroes

[Ellie_the_Elf]

Is anyone else thinking some of the penalties seem a little low? Strength in particular?

I've just looked ar Grimm, and they have strength at 2d8, and other scores generated as normal- this is for characters who are 8-12 years old and human. In that game, you get other ability score bonuses/penalties depending on your class. Unfortunately, I don't know how the whole thing works out as my group have so far refused point-blank to play a roleplay game involving children and fairy tales

Ellie.

 

[Hjorimir]

This kid can press twice his own body weight and is considered, pound-for-pound, the strongest human being in the world.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Damn ....

This kid can press twice his own body weight and is considered, pound-for-pound, the strongest human being in the world.

That is just plain scary. ​

 

[Felon]

This kid can press twice his own body weight and is considered, pound-for-pound, the strongest human being in the world.

It's worth mentioning that kid has a special condition that gives him overdeveloped muscles.

One thought on how to balance the penalties is to give a small XP bonus, to represent that aa yound mind learns very quickly.

 

[Bryon_Soulweaver]

If he is 12 and weighs around 120-140, man................ *low whistle*

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Do YOU Have Enough Quotes?

Soulweaver,

You have quite a bit of verbage attached to your message.

Are you collecting other poster's signatures by any chance?

-The Menace (a.k.a. One Hell of a Drug ....)

 

[The Sigil]

As far as Strength goes, don't forget:

1 - Halflings are the size of (roughly) a 5-year old human child... and they only get a -2.

2 - Square-cube law. Kids are on the "good side" of it. I am six feet tall and about 270 lbs. My son (who is four years old) is about half my height. Square-cube law says he should be able to (assuming he is built like me - and he's not, he's more muscle and less pudge, but work with me here) lift one-quarter of what I do (muscle strength varies as cross-sectional area, so reducing his height by half reduces his cross-sectional area to 1/4)... but only weighs about 1/8 of what I do (and in reality, he's roughly 35 pounds - about 1/8 my weight). If I can lift my own weight, 270 pounds, one expects him to be able to lift one quarter of that (muscle cross-section, remember) or about 65-70 pounds. Note that while I can "only" lift my body weight, he can lift TWICE his body weight (and he's not "stronger" but rather just scaled differently).

3 - Kids - especially those in a medieval setting where they can't watch TV/play video games all day - tend to be MUCH more active than today's kids. That means they'll be in better shape and have better-toned muscles than our (fatter) kids do.

I'd just stat him up as a halfling, myself (with no favored class, though).

Seriously, having kids has reminded me of just how tough the little buggers are... yes, they're bags of mush at 6 months to a year, but by the time they're 4 or 5 years old, they're fast, strong, and a handful and a half and if you're not careful, they can hurt (pulling hair, kick in the groin, pinching, etc.)

--The Sigil