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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7884958" data-attributes="member: 18">You shouldn't be referencing stats as if they're "real thing" that others in the universe make decisions based on, at all. They're not. An elephant in the D&D universe can't actually reliably survive an 30,000' fall, but it can if you use the mechanics.You're making wild and unsupported leaps of logic.You leap from "they like athletic competitions" to "they abandon people with low stats", which is completely irrational and non-logical.You leap from "the leaders dying means they have leadership issues" to "they don't care about mental stats", which is again completely irrational. It's indeed counter-rational. If anything, that would they did value smart people because they didn't have as many of them and they didn't last as long as they do with other races. They would also probably value child-carers higher than some races for similar reasons (lack of grandparents to assist with child-care).As for Klingons, well, no. You could argue "dark", but "very dark"? Nah. They're not as bad as many real human cultures. I mean the Romans, for god's sake, regarded positively by most people, are pitch-black compared to Klingons, and abyss-black compared to Goliaths (as were the real Spartans - hell, they make the Romans look like good guys).Really?Half-Orcs have precisely one mechanic that even arguably reflects size/strength - rolling an extra die on a crit.They don't have Powerful Build, and their Relentless Endurance feature is relatively similar to the Goliath feature and doesn't really reflect size. Other than that they have Intimidation, which has nothing to do with size/strength in D&D (sadly, but that's a whole other discussion), but not Athletics, which arguably does. Literally their only other feature is Darkvision.I mean, fair play if that's your preference, but it's hard to square with the arguments you've appeared to make, for me.I suppose it depends on the artist, but as per 5E, Bugbears are 6-8' tall. The main 5E race art shows them with arms maybe 15% longer than a typical, proportionate human:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dndbeyond.com/races/bugbear[/URL]For one to have a reach fully 5' longer than a human, able to literally reach across squares, it would need arms, well, about 4-5' longer than a human (allowing for a bit of D&D flex). So I'd say a 6' Bugbear would need arms so long that his hands literally touched the ground standing up straight. An 8' one would need arms down to below his knees (assuming human proportions - typically they have longer torsos, which means lower knees, to be fair).Looking on Google, assuming all Bugbears ate 8' tall, I'd say maybe 20% of Bugbear art, tops, has them with appropriately long arms (even accounting for broad shoulders adding to reach). 0% if we assume they're 6' or 7' tall.It doesn't actually matter, because it's D&D, and the ability is meant to emphasize something about Bugbears, and realistic reach is something D&D has never been particularly interested in.</blockquote>

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