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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 7069659" data-attributes="member: 82779">If you're looking at the strength of the game mechanic, you have to throw out the part of the damage bonus the character would have with or without the ability.Let's look at a 20 strength.If you have 20 strength, you have a +5 to damage just because of your Strength score, regardless of whether you're large or not.  A large creature who gets to add +7 instead of +5 (i.e. add 1.5 times modifier instead of just the modifier) is only getting an additional two points of damage over what they would have without that benefit of being large.  So the benefit of being large sized to that character is two points of damage per hit (and it doesn't even get doubled on a crit because it's a static bonus instead of a die roll).</blockquote>