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<blockquote data-quote="WaterRabbit" data-source="post: 7483082" data-attributes="member: 2445">I think any situation involving grappling will require at least some common sense.&nbsp; Take for example a human grappling a brown bear.&nbsp; A brown bear is large vs. human that is medium.&nbsp; A human could grapple it in the sense of holding a limb or perhaps a choke hold.&nbsp; However, there is simply no way a human is going to move the bear as part of the grapple.&nbsp; It is more likely that the human will just be moved by the bear.If you take a super strong human with a strength score of 20, they can push or drag 600 lbs.&nbsp; A small brown bear is going to be around 400 lbs, while a large one is going to be 800-1200 lbs.As a DM, I tend to give disadvantage to a smaller grappler going against a large one in general.&nbsp; I definitely do not allow a grappler to move a creature beyond its own strength.Even though most people interpret the Grappler feat to be in error, it is probably a correct ruling to allow creatures one size larger to automatically succeed on checks to escape the grapple -- at the very minimum they should have advantage on escaping the grapple or allow them to attempt to escape as a bonus action.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WaterRabbit, post: 7483082, member: 2445"] I think any situation involving grappling will require at least some common sense. Take for example a human grappling a brown bear. A brown bear is large vs. human that is medium. A human could grapple it in the sense of holding a limb or perhaps a choke hold. However, there is simply no way a human is going to move the bear as part of the grapple. It is more likely that the human will just be moved by the bear. If you take a super strong human with a strength score of 20, they can push or drag 600 lbs. A small brown bear is going to be around 400 lbs, while a large one is going to be 800-1200 lbs. As a DM, I tend to give disadvantage to a smaller grappler going against a large one in general. I definitely do not allow a grappler to move a creature beyond its own strength. Even though most people interpret the Grappler feat to be in error, it is probably a correct ruling to allow creatures one size larger to automatically succeed on checks to escape the grapple -- at the very minimum they should have advantage on escaping the grapple or allow them to attempt to escape as a bonus action. [/QUOTE]

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