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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1727198" data-attributes="member: 2013">I've actually thought a lot about this with my 3-year-old son; he's very small (height-wise) for his age, but he's almost all muscle - no fat (he's CONSTANTLY in motion and eats like a bird).  Here are some random observations:1 - It took 5 fully grown adults to hold him down for his booster shots.  FIVE!2 - When he throws things, they can hurt.3 - My daughter, who's one and a half, has no problems lifting stuffed animals that are bigger than she is and walking around with them.4 - He's really halfling-size (he's just over 3-feet and 30 pounds).  And he's FAST when he runs (it helps that I have blown out an ankle and a knee, but still...)I don't know that I can conceive an 18-STR halfling, but trust me, I can believe a 12-STR halfling!I'm a bit big for a human; six-foot-two and 260 lbs.  But let's just consider square-cubed laws for a second.  Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that I'm a little weakling and can only lift 120 lbs (pathetic compared to my body weight, and I know I can do more, but this is for illustrative purposes).If I were "shrunk" down to half size, I'd be the size of an average halfling - three-foot-one.  My weight would drop to 1/8th of what it was (weight is contingent on volume) to just over 30 pounds (we'll round it off).  My lifting ability would drop to 1/4th of what it was (muscle power is contingent upon cross-sectional area, so it drops of as the square of my height change).  I could lift 30 pounds.  In other words, if I was simply "shrunk" in half I would go from being able to lift half my body weight to lifting my ENTIRE body weight!Reversing it, it means that a halfling who can bench twice his own body weight, with no changes in musculature other than being "Scaled up" to human size, would be able to bench his own body weight, and no more, at human size.  And if he (or a human) is scaled up to fire giant size, he's only able to lift half his own body weight (it's why eventually, without a change in musculature, your weight eventually gets so big you can't support yourself and collapse).Basically, your weight falls off faster than your strength and your strength falls off faster than your height as you're shrunk. <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=":)" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

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