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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 9618947" data-attributes="member: 7034710">elaborating on this, i just don't think 5e ruleset is designed in such a way that ever intends player characters to be Tiny (unless magically altered in which case it is a temporary state and their gear is likely altered too), it relies too heavily on the convenience of everyone being more or less the same size in relation to how they interact with the world around them, with only a little stretching of disbelief you can imagine that possibly the 7ft goliath could potentially wield and wear the exact same longsword and fullplate as the 4ft halfling, but the former handing their gear to a hypothetical 2ft gnome to wear them like they do does not seem realistically possible, and Wizards doesn't want to write up a whole section about gear sizes to acount for this, or about strength caps and penalties on the species end of things.we have the fairy in 5e as a player species, if my knowledge of previous editions is correct it was a tiny creature in those, but in 5e it is merely small, i believe if any player species would be tiny in 5e it would be the fairy, but it's not, so i don't believe 5e is intended for tiny player species.</blockquote>