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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7739819" data-attributes="member: 58197">Allowing half-giants to go to Strength 22 is either a minor concern which can be addressed with some care and boundary-setting by the designers, or a game-wrecking threat that will turn 5E into 3E at its Christmas tree worst. In real life, it's the first. Here on the Internet, it's the second.Size is more difficult because it allows them to use bigger weapons. A half-giant with a greatsword gets a +2 damage bonus over a human (2d8 instead of 2d6). Given that 5E relies heavily on &quot;more attacks&quot; rather than &quot;more damage per attack&quot; to scale by level, this is a pretty big deal. Not sure how to go about balancing that one. Penalty on attack rolls to counteract the benefit? AC reduction? And how do you adjust the penalty for the fact that most weapons only get +1 but a couple of big weapons get +2? Tough call.The alignment thing is trivial. 5E doesn't even care about alignment 99% of the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7739819, member: 58197"] Allowing half-giants to go to Strength 22 is either a minor concern which can be addressed with some care and boundary-setting by the designers, or a game-wrecking threat that will turn 5E into 3E at its Christmas tree worst. In real life, it's the first. Here on the Internet, it's the second. Size is more difficult because it allows them to use bigger weapons. A half-giant with a greatsword gets a +2 damage bonus over a human (2d8 instead of 2d6). Given that 5E relies heavily on "more attacks" rather than "more damage per attack" to scale by level, this is a pretty big deal. Not sure how to go about balancing that one. Penalty on attack rolls to counteract the benefit? AC reduction? And how do you adjust the penalty for the fact that most weapons only get +1 but a couple of big weapons get +2? Tough call. The alignment thing is trivial. 5E doesn't even care about alignment 99% of the time. [/QUOTE]

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