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<blockquote data-quote="monboesen" data-source="post: 4673271" data-attributes="member: 4647">To me it is a build in assumption that haflings must have a proportionally much higher strength to weight ratio. Otherwise they wouldn't even be able to fight medium opponents. It's not like any 3-5 year old human child could defeat a normal healthy man or woman in a fight.So even though the halfling may be only 3-4 ft. tall and weigh about 40 pounds he could easily have the strength of a 6 ft. linebacker.And if that seems unlikely just look the the rest of the animal kingdom. Female chimpanezee are far stronger than humans even though they are quite a bit smaller.Anyway the exact same problem IMO crops up if you increase enemies a size category or two more. How does Joe Fighter actually hurt that colossal red dragon? His sword is the size of a toothpick and its scales would be equal to a tanks armor.As for the monk part. Again to me its a build in assumption that a monk is more than a guy striking people with his fists. He has supernatural powers and among those are some way of doing damage to almost anything with his fists.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="monboesen, post: 4673271, member: 4647"] To me it is a build in assumption that haflings must have a proportionally much higher strength to weight ratio. Otherwise they wouldn't even be able to fight medium opponents. It's not like any 3-5 year old human child could defeat a normal healthy man or woman in a fight. So even though the halfling may be only 3-4 ft. tall and weigh about 40 pounds he could easily have the strength of a 6 ft. linebacker. And if that seems unlikely just look the the rest of the animal kingdom. Female chimpanezee are far stronger than humans even though they are quite a bit smaller. Anyway the exact same problem IMO crops up if you increase enemies a size category or two more. How does Joe Fighter actually hurt that colossal red dragon? His sword is the size of a toothpick and its scales would be equal to a tanks armor. As for the monk part. Again to me its a build in assumption that a monk is more than a guy striking people with his fists. He has supernatural powers and among those are some way of doing damage to almost anything with his fists. [/QUOTE]

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