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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 5829727" data-attributes="member: 924">Things like giants are literally impossible - 7 1'2 feet is about as tall as a person can get without serious issues. (Look at poor Andre the Giant)Therefore any system is likely going to break down well before that, at least if it is based on human norms.The same goes for hobbits - in any real sense, they would be hopelessly weak. (And as an aside, Chimps <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/02/how_strong_is_a_chimpanzee.html" target="_blank">are not that much stronger than humans, it's a myth</a>. They're also bigger than you think about 5' and 150 lbs, more like dwarves than hobbits)So all this stuff really has to be heavily abstracted anyway. That's one thing that really drove me crazy about 3e, having different weapon sizes for different size monsters. So much effort was spend in solving a problem that shouldn't even exist, since the system needs to be abstract, not realistic.</blockquote>