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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 6820474" data-attributes="member: 58172">Yeah, this is good picture to thing about, when thinking about D&D heroes.In reallife, women tend to be less strong men, and even women who are strong tend to have muscles that bulk up less than those of men do. Especially, women less often have extreme upper body strength. But their leg strength is higher with a frequency closer to men.One must remember leg strength when thinking about the D&D Strength score.Ok, all of that said. She looks pretty buff for a woman (that never uses steroids).She is fairly strong, and can certainly jump high, because she is an Olympic level gymnast. In this particular picture, her jump isnt so high, and she looks like she is about to do some other kind of body stunt. Even so, maybe even this jump can clear 4 feet? So it is a highjump.I am going to estimate that their Strength is 14 in D&D terms, which is pretty good for a reallife woman. But who knows her Strength might be 16 or so?If it is possible to disconnect Weightlifting as a separate skill that requires training, then I would more confidently estimate her Strength at 16 or even higher, where Strength is explicitly defined as ‘natural athleticism’.The rest of her athletic competence would be, in D&D terms, the result of her experience, level, proficiency, and feats.</blockquote>