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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9398836" data-attributes="member: 4937">I had a friend who was 13 with an 180 pound bench press, which is considerably stronger than most adults but not nearly as strong as a strong adult.  The record at age 11 is probably something like 110 pounds, which is still stronger than many adults.  So yeah, you can have a 10 year old who is quicker or maybe even stronger than an average modern sedentary adult, but they are still going to have limitations compared to the adult version of themselves.  It's the rare kid that could drag a 300 lb adult, but it's possible. But I'm going to have a serious problem with someone who wants to play a 10 year old kid just because there are no mechanical effects of age, the same way that I'm going to have a problem with someone playing a frost giant or a dragon because there are no mechanical effects of race.</blockquote>