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Message: <blockquote data-quote="green slime" data-source="post: 133577" data-attributes="member: 1325">KD, while I agree in principle to your ideas, and that it seems nice to give players benefits/hindrances according to their physical stats, this starts getting horribly complicated once you start analyzing it.Sprinters are also exceptionally strong. This is something that may be hard to accept, but consider:The performance enhancing drugs taken by athletes who wish to cheat increase strength and the ability of the body to heal itself (and thus allow you to train harder. Thus Running speed is not dictated by the DnD stat Dex alone. Other factors are Height and body type. An examination of the best athletes at each running event will reveal that, on average, the tallest runners are found in the 400 to 800 m races, that runners have successively slimmer builds the further distances the runner races over.And suggesting that sprinters do not have the Run feat is somewhat laughable... Would you suggest that swimmers not have Swim skill?All things told, I'd rather have an abstract 30 feet for all humans (after all, the walking speed of the majority of humans is not that different, and is more dependant on height and conditioning than Manual Dexterity) than a complex system to calculate speed, which in the end is just rounded of to the nearest 5 feet anyway...</blockquote>