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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snoweel" data-source="post: 1551671" data-attributes="member: 4453">Being from NZ, Tonguez, I'm surprised you can't think of any GLARING examples from rugby.The problem may be to do with the fact that D&D's CON score represents so many very different things - endurance, resistance to disease, fitness and so on.But for mine, classic examples of high STR, low CON rugby players are many of your Polynesian centres, wingers and flankers. Massively strong and fast (another function of the STR score, despite the insistence of many that it is related to DEX) but far less effective late in the game due to a body not designed for 80 minutes of constant exertion.If you remember the furore from a couple of years ago when the NZ selectors picked "the whitest All Black team in recent memory" for the Bledisloe Cup match against Australia, former All Black captain Frank Bunce (himself a Pacific Islander) said words to the effect of "In most positions you need a player who will just put his head down and work hard for the full 80 minutes and more often than not that player is white."Another example of high STR, low CON players are those who are constantly injured.</blockquote>