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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9212534" data-attributes="member: 6877472">The advantage of Small size in 3.5 was as follows:+1 to attack rolls.+1 to AC.+4 to Hide checks.For this benefit, you had 3/4 the carry capacity (but most of your gear was 50% weight so this wasn't a big deal), had to use smaller weapons, and suffered when grappling or trying to Intimidate larger people (-4 on the checks in both cases).I can understand 5e's desire to simplify all of that, but what we got was:Disadvantage when using Heavy weapons.No penalty to carry capacity, but your gear weighs the same as that used by big folk for...reasons.There's some occasional side benefits like being able to squeeze into smaller areas or move through the spaces of larger creatures, but these tend to come up way less often than being unable to use a longbow or heavy crossbow effectively.  And yet, lol, usually when this is brought up on this forum, you have several posters chiming in that size small should be penalized more, and there's no need to give it more advantages.  Then Monsters of the Multiverse has several races that are like "you can be Small or Medium if you want", as if these choices are 1:1 to each other.</blockquote>