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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maniac" data-source="post: 2102989" data-attributes="member: 2863">Hello all, sorry to jump into this thread so late but I wanted to add some thoughts. One of the things that frustrates me about Stength vs. Dexterity discussions is that I don't think its clear what a high dexterity means and so it has different meanings to different people.Strength can be measured in the real world.   Certainly there are many kinds of strength and different ways to measure it but it can be measured.How do you quantify Dexterity?  How do you measure it.  For me I think of dexterity as someone who is athletic.  Someone who is athletic has a natural talent at things but it only goes so far before training is necessary.  In my opinion training will outpace somones athletic talent in terms of performance at a specific task.  It would cetainly make training easier at that task than for someone without the natural atletic ability but a sufficiently trained individual is going to be better than an untrained athelete.I mentional all of this because I think that skill in fighting is often confused with the dexterity stat.   Skill encompasis many things including application of strength and quickness of action.  I believe that a stronger larger guy has a great advantage over an athletic but otherwise untrained fighter.  A skilled figher on the other had goes someway to closing the gap.In the game, Fightin skill is measurd by level and class.One other point of anecdotal evidence.  I study martial arts.  Several years ago I focused training almost entirely on weights.  I did not practice martial arts to any great extent during a several month period.  When I went back to it my kicks had improved tremendously.  I could kick faster, higher and harder with almost no direct training of kicks.  However, other aspects of sparring such as reaction time did not have any notible gains and may have even declined a bit due to lack of training.Thanks for you time.M.</blockquote>

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