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<blockquote data-quote="Elderbrain" data-source="post: 7438894">1) Children are NOT (necessarily) stupid, at least not any more than adults. I know kids who have better judgement than some adults I know! I also know (or know of) plenty of stupid adults, people in their 20s, 30, 40s or even 50s who are not so bright.&nbsp; Sadly, wisdom (or Wisdom) does not necessarily come with age... Now, where there IS a difference is in the amount of life experience and education, and in physical strength.&nbsp; 2) Halflings are smaller than most child PCs would be. The cutoff line in 5e between Small size and Medium size is four feet, and most kid heroes would fall into the Medium category (even an eight-year old can hit the 4-foot mark). Also, 5e assigns no Ability Score penalties to elderly PCs or NPCs (as prior editions did), so for parity I wouldn't assign Ability Score penalties to child characters, either. Anyway, PCs are generally supposed to be exceptional individuals, so even if your average kid were dumb as a rock, that wouldn't preclude an intelligent child PC (or an unusually strong one, etc.)That said, the player of a child PC who wanted a (semi-) realistic child could voluntarily assign some lower scores to appropriate stats - say, an 8 in Strength if playing a spellcaster, for instance, or a low Wisdom (to reflect a lack of life experience, say). You could also apply the penalties for Small size, even if the kid is technically Medium, if you &quot;must&quot; differenciate kids from adults game-mechanically.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elderbrain, post: 7438894"] 1) Children are NOT (necessarily) stupid, at least not any more than adults. I know kids who have better judgement than some adults I know! I also know (or know of) plenty of stupid adults, people in their 20s, 30, 40s or even 50s who are not so bright. Sadly, wisdom (or Wisdom) does not necessarily come with age... Now, where there IS a difference is in the amount of life experience and education, and in physical strength. 2) Halflings are smaller than most child PCs would be. The cutoff line in 5e between Small size and Medium size is four feet, and most kid heroes would fall into the Medium category (even an eight-year old can hit the 4-foot mark). Also, 5e assigns no Ability Score penalties to elderly PCs or NPCs (as prior editions did), so for parity I wouldn't assign Ability Score penalties to child characters, either. Anyway, PCs are generally supposed to be exceptional individuals, so even if your average kid were dumb as a rock, that wouldn't preclude an intelligent child PC (or an unusually strong one, etc.) That said, the player of a child PC who wanted a (semi-) realistic child could voluntarily assign some lower scores to appropriate stats - say, an 8 in Strength if playing a spellcaster, for instance, or a low Wisdom (to reflect a lack of life experience, say). You could also apply the penalties for Small size, even if the kid is technically Medium, if you "must" differenciate kids from adults game-mechanically. [/QUOTE]

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