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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 2504812" data-attributes="member: 2013">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</blockquote>

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