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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9475052" data-attributes="member: 6801845">In a world with flying dragons, I don't have a problem with 20 strength halflings because strength is an abstraction anyway.  A 20 strength halfling can still only carry half the weight of a 20 strength human and a 20 strength ogre can carry twice as much as that human.Because it's an imperfect abstraction, it really just measures how well you apply the strength that you do have, mostly when it comes to combat.  Children aren't strong in large part because their muscles haven't developed yet.  That and chimpanzees are quite short but also stronger than most humans (how strong they are in comparison kind of depends who you ask).  Then throw magic into the mix and Bob's your uncle.A more realistic system would give grizzly bears a far, far higher strength score than any human could hope to achieve.  But it's the system we have, because there's no way to really represent stuff like this at the level of oversimplification we have with D&D.EDIT: small species don't have 1/2 carrying capacity, that's reserved for tiny.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>