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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Twig" data-source="post: 8200110" data-attributes="member: 31754">It is absurd to accept that a three-foot tall halfling is as strong as a six-and-a-half foot tall human or tiefling. At least it is unless you make some further assumptions.Previous version of the game reduced the carrying and lifting capacity of small sized characters to account for this and said that the actual strength score was not wholly dependent on how strong you were, but how strong you were relative to your size and how well you used that strength. Now this was an obvious attempt to explain away something that doesn't make sense, but it was enough of an excuse to use for a willing suspension of disbelief.With that president set, 5e now describes strength as follows: "Strength measures bodily power, athletic training, and the extent to which you can exert raw physical force." So bodily power, that is to say, physical strength, is still a factor, but they are also using the abstract ideas of athleticism and effectively applying force to hand-wave physically smaller creatures being just as strong as larger ones.Now I think it is fair to say that WotC did not remove the size adjustment for carrying capacity for small creatures because they believed small creatures are just as strong as medium sized creatures. They removed it because it was simpler to do so. 5th edition made playing D&D easy, and they removed a lot of simulationist rules that, while more reflective on the fantasy reality, didn't really add that much to the game. (I realize this and I like the simulationist rules!)A new rule declaring all species ASIs are no longer static and now may be assigned as desired does not make things simpler, it makes it more complicated. And, in my opinion, less fun.Edit: I am going to keep an eye on this thread to see if anyone else responds or to see if, once again, I have managed to kill a long running thread. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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