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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4985069" data-attributes="member: 4937">This reminds me of the GULLIVER rules (for GURPS) that adjusted your effective strength based on what percentage of your body you could actually bring to bear in the grapple.  Your rules adopt the same sort of approach, although a good bit simplier than the infamously complicated GULLIVER rules.I've been wrestling with how to bring that sort of thing into the game primarily because the grapple bonuses for huge creatures are unnecessarily high in most cases.  A Kraken or a giant can't really use its full strength and weight when grappling a human.  If a giant picks up a human with one hand it's the human full strength versus the strength of the giants thumb and fingers - much fairer of a contest than the RAW imply.Right at the moment, the best variation I've come up with is to do away with the grapple bonus for size entirely, and simply rule that if you are bigger than the thing you are grappling, you get a +4 bonus on your rolls.  One of the examples of the validity of reducing grapple bonuses is how easily you can grapple a small insect, for example.  Swat, yes, grapple, not so much.For a fairly wide variaty of situations, your proposed rules and this variation yield the exact same results.  However, my variation is a good bit simplier.   After attempting to play GULLIVER/GURPS with a very high level of realism and versimilitude, I have to say that I've become - at least in some cases - a convert to simplicity (though not at the cost of reducing a players implicit in game options).</blockquote>

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