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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 5678883" data-attributes="member: 82504">The pretense that strength is the be all end all of fighting or even the prime basis of the best fighting style could be killed in the dirt.I have heard some suggesting general house rules where attributes and to hit rolls were divorced (you only get a damage bonus and to hit are based as though you had an 18 with boost every time)Then again you could visualize your really strong characters who are great at lifting weights and moving stuff and breaking things that arent fighting or moving ... but who get there extra mass used against them relatively normally by others using perceptive, responsive and adjusting techniques (ie judo -note the fighter has many moves even whos effects could be describe like this) or simply last minute dodges that throw the big guy even more off balance cause he is relying so much on brute strength - which is of limited value when fighting.You could give the really big ones pure strength roll bonus when they break or lift stuff(additional to what they get now?).. but only a small bit of fighting abiity bonus (like it is now)..Oh look Goliaths already get a bonus to athletics checks as though there strength were 4 higher than it is. Dragonborn dont get that.. neither do Half Orcs.To a degree you could make some adjustments for mass using dcs Oh look he is big so his dc to lift the thing is 5 less and the pixies is 5 more.Ofcourse Tinker Bell is mighty potent and often portrayed carrying full grown adult folk around so not sure if that much distinction fits the myths.. Shrug...</blockquote>

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