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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kamosa" data-source="post: 1423943" data-attributes="member: 1037">True, but the most munchkin-y thing to do isn't always the most advantageous thing to do.  Sometimes strength makes you an enemy and you get taken out.  From an evolutionary standpoint, if you compete for resources with a dominate species, your likely to get rubbed out by that species.  While I have great respect for the stone giants of the campaign world, they pale in comparison to the power of a massed of army, or an entire temple orders power.  If a relatively benign hobgoblin clan started showing up as giants, you can bet they would be opposed and gone after by powerful establishments like paladin orders or mages guilds.  If they stay small, those powerful organization use their resources else where and the clan survives.Sort of a nail that sticks up gets hammered theory of how the world works.Role playing gimic, sure. I got no problem admitting that.  But I think as a broad rule it makes those situations seem like exceptions and not the rule of a world.  When they arise they feel like they need to get dealt with, not ignored because they are status quo.</blockquote>