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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lamoni" data-source="post: 1607404" data-attributes="member: 12680">I just thought about this again and had another idea or way of looking at it.  If you had to chop wood, you could have a wide assortment of axes at your disposal.  The smallest axe wouldn't really work well.  As the axe got larger, the easier it would be to chop wood with it... until you got to a size that was too large to use effectively (even if you could easily lift it based on strength).Now let a giant with the same strength choose his axe.  He would choose a larger one because he would have larger hands and a larger frame.  The larger axe would actually be more effective.I still think that part of the difference is based on strength as a hidden strength modifier, but maybe that is already absorbed into the equation since it takes a larger strength to lift and use the larger weapon.  The larger damage die is because larger more massive things actually do more damage.With the unarmed attacks, it is similar.  As your fist grows, it gets much more massive and able to hurt more.  Like using a rock to hit someone.  If you pick up a small rock to smash against someone's face it'll hurt, but not as much as smashing a small boulder.Just think about ways in how it can make sense.  At first thought it makes sense that larger people/weapons hurt more.  I fully expect a club from a colossal creature (a full grown tree) to hurt more than a club from a large ogre (even if the ogre is capable of lifting the tree, it would be too awkward to weild).</blockquote>

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