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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5560064" data-attributes="member: 4937">Chimpanzee is one example.  I'd put forward the Caracal as another one.  Average weight is about 30 lbs, so we are dealing with small cats, yet they have a 15' vertical jump and have been known to take prey weighing more than 100 lbs and haul it up into a tree.   To really deal with strength realisticly, you have to introduce GULLIVER style natural or negative encumbrance rules.  The point being, that while a 30lb creature as strong as a man violates our intuition, its not impossible to have a 30lb creature with average strength that exceeds human norms (much less 'only has a -2 penalty').   Again, anyone that wants extreme realism should google 'GULLIVER' and 'GURPS' if they want to take this to a logical extreme.Not objectionable.  It probably doesn't actually accomplish the result for everyone who cares about this sort of thing though.  The point of a cap or stat penalty is to emphasize the differences in the extreme case.   A bonus feat which didn't stack and which was not gender specific would simply mean that the averages were different but in the extreme case they were the same.An implementation that highlighted differences between the sexes would be to make the bonuses granted by the Athletic and Endurance feats differ for men and women.   In this case, the average would (nearly) be the same, but the extreme case would be different.</blockquote>