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Do Player Characters Have Average Population Stat Distributions?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8067973" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>I think that, thats where the narrative comes in because stats are a blunt instrument.</p><p></p><p>I have had in the past an NPC Ogre with Str 8, she was a sickly and abused runt of a mob who survived by staying away from the others in her clan, hiding in the midden and scavenging the left overs. Her purpose was to clue the PCs in that they were facing ogres ...</p><p></p><p>Equally I’d expect a Str 22 Halfling to have a bloody good story as to why he is exceptionally strong not only for Halflings but also compared to other common races that Halflings live among.</p><p></p><p>IMC that approach even lead to a special gnome barbarian ability “Calefaction” to explain how a gnome barbarian could get str bonuses. Calefaction is a rock gnomes elemental affinity to magma (molten rock), they channel it in such a way that during a rage their muscles twitch at hyperaccelerated speeds, the gnome is getting in multiple rapidfire tiny actions so quickly that it mimics increased Str <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again its back to narrative, but the issue here is that you’re applying “Human standard” to fantasy races who arent the same.</p><p></p><p>irl the Chimpanzee is smaller than a human but an adult Chimpanzee has greater arm strength than a human. They have physiologically different musculature.</p><p></p><p>In the same way I’ve always thought of Dwarfs as having much denser muscle than humans do - which though they are smaller makes them heavier, broader and stronger than their size suggests.</p><p></p><p>who’s to say Halflings arent also like Chimps and dwarfs or, like my Gnomes, have an entirely fantastic reason to be as strong as an Orc</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 8067973, member: 1125"] I think that, thats where the narrative comes in because stats are a blunt instrument. I have had in the past an NPC Ogre with Str 8, she was a sickly and abused runt of a mob who survived by staying away from the others in her clan, hiding in the midden and scavenging the left overs. Her purpose was to clue the PCs in that they were facing ogres ... Equally I’d expect a Str 22 Halfling to have a bloody good story as to why he is exceptionally strong not only for Halflings but also compared to other common races that Halflings live among. IMC that approach even lead to a special gnome barbarian ability “Calefaction” to explain how a gnome barbarian could get str bonuses. Calefaction is a rock gnomes elemental affinity to magma (molten rock), they channel it in such a way that during a rage their muscles twitch at hyperaccelerated speeds, the gnome is getting in multiple rapidfire tiny actions so quickly that it mimics increased Str :) Again its back to narrative, but the issue here is that you’re applying “Human standard” to fantasy races who arent the same. irl the Chimpanzee is smaller than a human but an adult Chimpanzee has greater arm strength than a human. They have physiologically different musculature. In the same way I’ve always thought of Dwarfs as having much denser muscle than humans do - which though they are smaller makes them heavier, broader and stronger than their size suggests. who’s to say Halflings arent also like Chimps and dwarfs or, like my Gnomes, have an entirely fantastic reason to be as strong as an Orc [/QUOTE]
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