Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="UltimaGabe" data-source="post: 2507770" data-attributes="member: 16019">Hey, everyone. I was wondering about something- what exactly would be the repurcussions of giving a small-sized race the Powerful Build ability? (That is, the ability to make them count as medium-sized creatures for purposes of weapon sizes, bull rush, grapple, whatever.) All races that I know of that have it are Medium-sized already (and thus count as Large), and they all have a +1 level adjustment (the only ones offhand are the Goliath, Half-Ogre, and Half-Giant). What about a small-sized character, whose only advantage over a human would be a +1 to attacks and AC (as opposed to a +4 to bull rush attempts, +4 to grapple checks, increased damage, and so on)? Would it still incur a +1 LA? What about just allowing it to wield medium-sized weapons at no penalty, without all of the other bonuses? What would the repurcussions of that be?Basically, I'm trying to find a way to re-create Frog from Chrono Trigger (basically a knight's sidekick that gets transformed into a frog, but becomes a knight himself in order to avenge his friend's death or something). He's a smallish frog-man, around two or three feet tall, but he could still wield the sword originally owned by the knight before him- who was medium-sized. Anyway, anybody got any thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UltimaGabe, post: 2507770, member: 16019"] Hey, everyone. I was wondering about something- what exactly would be the repurcussions of giving a small-sized race the Powerful Build ability? (That is, the ability to make them count as medium-sized creatures for purposes of weapon sizes, bull rush, grapple, whatever.) All races that I know of that have it are Medium-sized already (and thus count as Large), and they all have a +1 level adjustment (the only ones offhand are the Goliath, Half-Ogre, and Half-Giant). What about a small-sized character, whose only advantage over a human would be a +1 to attacks and AC (as opposed to a +4 to bull rush attempts, +4 to grapple checks, increased damage, and so on)? Would it still incur a +1 LA? What about just allowing it to wield medium-sized weapons at no penalty, without all of the other bonuses? What would the repurcussions of that be? Basically, I'm trying to find a way to re-create Frog from Chrono Trigger (basically a knight's sidekick that gets transformed into a frog, but becomes a knight himself in order to avenge his friend's death or something). He's a smallish frog-man, around two or three feet tall, but he could still wield the sword originally owned by the knight before him- who was medium-sized. Anyway, anybody got any thoughts? [/QUOTE]

Verification