From: Bryan J. Maloney (jacobus@sonata.cc.purdue.edu)
Date: Thu 10 Feb 1994 - 20:18:09 EET
George Harris makes a case for carrying ability to be based entirely off
of STR and have no SIZ component.
I would agree with this on ONE condition:
STR must be adjusted for all creatures in RQ to be correctly proportional to
SIZ. Now, since I don't have my books in hand, I can't say whether or not
this is currently the case.
PS: By "correctly proportional" I do not mean that SIZ and STR must rise
at the same rate compared to human average. What I do mean is that, given
the fact that very large creatures do tend to be very strong, and very
small creatures do tend to be very weak (on ABSOLUTE scales, I don't care
how much an ant can carry relative its own body weight, I can still out-lift
it on an absolute scale).
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