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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7795355" data-attributes="member: 58172">You mention, "I have always thought that lower Con [of the elf] was do to their smaller body structure."This thought suggests that Con has nothing to do with remaining healthy indefinitely, but rather more pertinently refers to Size.In other words, Constitution measures toughness in combat: the ability to survive combat, the ability to take punches, even the ability to survive stab wounds.Con isnt a measure of ‘health’ (including persistent health that makes longevity possibility). Rather, Constitution specifically measures combat toughness.Here in combat, bigger tends to be better. The heavyweight has an advantage over the lightweight.Bigger also applies to other factors. For example, small children are more vulnerable to snake bites than big adults. But the essence is, Constitution measures combat toughness.Bigger also hits harder. A glance thru the Monster Manual shows a strong correlation between Strength scores and Constitution scores that are normally, moreorless the same score.In D&D, Strength and Constitution are normally the same thing.By making Weightlifting a separate skill. A Str-Con score will tend to have some advantage when lifting a weight. But a small creature can still be unusually strong by training in the skill, or even having a race trait that grants a bonus or an advantage to the Weightlifting skill.</blockquote>