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<blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 1606894" data-attributes="member: 17296">Yea, yea, but the side of the ogre monk's hand is different enough from the side of the halfling's hand that I felt this non-turned hand example was good enoughAn excellent point actually. And I do see it as well. Personally I always assumed it was becuase the larger person is much more likly to be actually physically stronger... and then there's reach to consider, and a lot of things like that that don't come into the games consideration as much (well, actually the large creature does get reach as well). Actually (If you read my longer post) I am of the opinion that there is a hidden strength penalty and bonus associated with the size difference. Or to say that small characters really are not using the same strength scale as larger ones. But then, I'm also of the opinion that this represents a poor rule, and that it leads to related issues wherein it's not fair (d4 vs d6 is fine, 2d10 vs. 4d8 is just wrong), not being able to pick up a human sized dagger (d4) call it a halfling shortsword (d4) is also wrong, in my opinion. And, according to the official rules, a halfling can't do that. He has to call it instead a human sized dagger, and take a penalty for using a weapon of the wrong size catagory.OOhh, looking back at that table I see it failed to space properly, I'll see if I can fix that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ARandomGod, post: 1606894, member: 17296"] Yea, yea, but the side of the ogre monk's hand is different enough from the side of the halfling's hand that I felt this non-turned hand example was good enough An excellent point actually. And I do see it as well. Personally I always assumed it was becuase the larger person is much more likly to be actually physically stronger... and then there's reach to consider, and a lot of things like that that don't come into the games consideration as much (well, actually the large creature does get reach as well). Actually (If you read my longer post) I am of the opinion that there is a hidden strength penalty and bonus associated with the size difference. Or to say that small characters really are not using the same strength scale as larger ones. But then, I'm also of the opinion that this represents a poor rule, and that it leads to related issues wherein it's not fair (d4 vs d6 is fine, 2d10 vs. 4d8 is just wrong), not being able to pick up a human sized dagger (d4) call it a halfling shortsword (d4) is also wrong, in my opinion. And, according to the official rules, a halfling can't do that. He has to call it instead a human sized dagger, and take a penalty for using a weapon of the wrong size catagory. OOhh, looking back at that table I see it failed to space properly, I'll see if I can fix that. [/QUOTE]

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