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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9629288" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Did you miss my next line? Chimps are stronger than humans in some ways. [URL unfurl="true"]https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5514706/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.newscientist.com/article/2138714-chimps-are-not-as-superhumanly-strong-as-we-thought-they-were/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40405026[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.livescience.com/59615-are-chimpanzees-stronger-than-humans.html[/URL]Mind, the last three articles are pop-science-ing the study in the first link, but the study in the first link is written in science-ese.Yes, chimps are a bit stronger than humans in many ways. No, they can't outperform humans in the long run. Much like horses can't outrun humans in a long enough race.If you want to write an entire subsystem for a game like D&D wherein whenever a Small species such as halflings has to make a Con save after performing an exceptionally good Strength check or they take exhaustion or suffer some other penalty to represent the fact that longer muscle fibers aren't good for long-term exertion, go ahead. However, if you do so, I will require you to create an entire phylogenetic tree showing exactly how humans and halflings are related and make sure that this also accounts for how a human can quite easily be stronger than a Large ogre. And at the same time, you will also need to say that a horse can only move at a Dash for 1d4 minutes before taking exhaustion.Or, y'know, you can accept that fantasy people don't have to be built just like real-world humans are.</blockquote>

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