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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9335518" data-attributes="member: 6779196">There absolutely are adult humans who fall into the 2-4 foot range in real life. It’s rare, but it’s possible, and acknowledging that possibility in the game rules for playing a member of the human species is consistent with WotC’s efforts towards diversity and inclusion. But I do agree that it’s weird for elves, dwarves, and orcs to not be able to be Small. It does indeed seem to imply either that conditions like dwarfism don’t affect those species. I suppose with orcs, you could make the argument that their average height is close enough to Large that one with dwarfism would still fall into the Medium size range, but that doesn’t work with elves or dwarves.This does seem to me like the kind of thing likely to get ironed out internally. If we caught this inconsistency, there’s a good chance sensitivity readers would also notice it. I wouldn’t be surprised if all Medium species can also be Small when the revised PHB drops, or at least all of them that don’t have Powerful Build.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 9335518, member: 6779196"] There absolutely are adult humans who fall into the 2-4 foot range in real life. It’s rare, but it’s possible, and acknowledging that possibility in the game rules for playing a member of the human species is consistent with WotC’s efforts towards diversity and inclusion. But I do agree that it’s weird for elves, dwarves, and orcs to not be able to be Small. It does indeed seem to imply either that conditions like dwarfism don’t affect those species. I suppose with orcs, you could make the argument that their average height is close enough to Large that one with dwarfism would still fall into the Medium size range, but that doesn’t work with elves or dwarves. This does seem to me like the kind of thing likely to get ironed out internally. If we caught this inconsistency, there’s a good chance sensitivity readers would also notice it. I wouldn’t be surprised if all Medium species can also be Small when the revised PHB drops, or at least all of them that don’t have Powerful Build. [/QUOTE]

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