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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9304087" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Right, so, you know what the square-cubed law is, right? So, you know that a 12' tall giant is 8x heavier than a 6' tall human, and thus logically must also be 8 times stronger, not to mention having twice the reach! I mean, I'm no ancient warrior, but I did do plenty of SCA stuff. I can guarantee you, you are toast if you try to take on someone 8x stronger than you with twice the reach (and a weapon appropriate to that). You're NOT DOING IT. Crap, they can just drop kick your ass, you're done. 1,600 pounds of sheer muscle. Yeah, you might actually beat a hill giant, one time in 50 with a really lucky shot (not really even emulated well by D&amp;D's combat system, but whatever). There SIMPLY IS NOTHING realistic about this stuff. It ain't a matter of opinion. There are plenty of 'bad assed' people in the world, they'd be crushed flat, no matter what, period, end of story. So it is NOT happening as a mundane process. It isn't something you can handwave away, MAGICAL naughty word IS HAPPENING WHEN YOU FIGHT, end of story.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 9304087, member: 82106"] Right, so, you know what the square-cubed law is, right? So, you know that a 12' tall giant is 8x heavier than a 6' tall human, and thus logically must also be 8 times stronger, not to mention having twice the reach! I mean, I'm no ancient warrior, but I did do plenty of SCA stuff. I can guarantee you, you are toast if you try to take on someone 8x stronger than you with twice the reach (and a weapon appropriate to that). You're NOT DOING IT. Crap, they can just drop kick your ass, you're done. 1,600 pounds of sheer muscle. Yeah, you might actually beat a hill giant, one time in 50 with a really lucky shot (not really even emulated well by D&D's combat system, but whatever). There SIMPLY IS NOTHING realistic about this stuff. It ain't a matter of opinion. There are plenty of 'bad assed' people in the world, they'd be crushed flat, no matter what, period, end of story. So it is NOT happening as a mundane process. It isn't something you can handwave away, MAGICAL naughty word IS HAPPENING WHEN YOU FIGHT, end of story. [/QUOTE]

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