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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 4674062" data-attributes="member: 66434">Its a fantasy game. There are all kinds of things that require the reality check portion of the brain to take a little time off. Going in the opposite direction, lets look at giants. They really shouldn't be walking around or existing at all. Even humans that grow abnormally tall have difficulties and average shorter lifespans due to the laws of the physical universe. A humanoid the size of a giant couldn't even really stand up much less be a fearsome fighter but we don't have trouble accepting them. When it comes to a little guy hitting something that big, just imagine a full strength human warrior in armor attacking a huge dragon with a broadsword. Even though the human is armed with a piece of heavy sharp steel, in reality he wouldn't stand much of a chance of getting through the dragon's scale but we accept this just fine.  We can suspend disbelief because D&D characters have training and abilities that permit feats that can't be duplicated in our world. Even in a fantasy world most people can't do the stuff an adventurer can. Lets take our human warrior vs the huge dragon as an example. The warrior is a militia man fighting to save his village. Since he is 0 or 1st level he has almost no chance of scoring a hit on the dragon. He swings bravely but fails to deal any damage. The dragon stomps him dead in one hit. The End.In this example the human died and it makes perfect sense to us why. Its consistent with what one would expect to happen in that situation. In Example 2 our human warrior is a 12th level human fighter in armor, armed with an identical looking sword. His great skill and toughness allow him to keep chopping at the dragon until it falls dead at his feet. How is this possible? He was a human of the same size and build as the militia man and similarly armed and armored, why did he stand a chance? If you can accept the events of the example given then you can accept a kung-fu master hobbit punching an ogre in the nads and dropping him.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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