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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9725455" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Personally, it really feels to me that a species described as being of a size &quot;similar to that of a human child&quot; should have it called out as being &quot;but as strong as an adult human&quot; if it were the case.Given that the &quot;carrying capacity&quot; section is the one about &quot;maximum weight in pounds you can carry&quot; and is explicitly determined by size and strength, it kind of feels like simply renaming &quot;Strength&quot; as &quot;Athleticism&quot; or something like that would solve a lot of the disconnect people have.But then we're still left with the potential strangeness of Small and Medium being lumped together in terms of the affect of size on carrying capacity, while all of the other sizes are separated.&nbsp; It feels easiest to me to gloss it as&nbsp; an obvious gameism to avoid discouraging the playing of smaller species and other complications arising from it.&nbsp; Personally, taking the rules as literally reflecting the way of the world (everyone between 2 and&nbsp; classes because heights and usual weights between 2' and 8' tall are totally disassociated from combat prowess so there is no need of weight classes in combat sports or bigger (but not larger) beings to haul things seems a bit too odd to me.&nbsp; (I wonder if the size not mattering being flaunted too much would make me have to fight down some inner contrariness and not go out of my way to find goofy examples - or if I would buy into the fantasy enough to just let it go).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 9725455, member: 6701124"] Personally, it really feels to me that a species described as being of a size "similar to that of a human child" should have it called out as being "but as strong as an adult human" if it were the case. Given that the "carrying capacity" section is the one about "maximum weight in pounds you can carry" and is explicitly determined by size and strength, it kind of feels like simply renaming "Strength" as "Athleticism" or something like that would solve a lot of the disconnect people have. But then we're still left with the potential strangeness of Small and Medium being lumped together in terms of the affect of size on carrying capacity, while all of the other sizes are separated. It feels easiest to me to gloss it as an obvious gameism to avoid discouraging the playing of smaller species and other complications arising from it. Personally, taking the rules as literally reflecting the way of the world (everyone between 2 and classes because heights and usual weights between 2' and 8' tall are totally disassociated from combat prowess so there is no need of weight classes in combat sports or bigger (but not larger) beings to haul things seems a bit too odd to me. (I wonder if the size not mattering being flaunted too much would make me have to fight down some inner contrariness and not go out of my way to find goofy examples - or if I would buy into the fantasy enough to just let it go). [/QUOTE]

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