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Author: FrodoGoofballCoTV

Mar 10th 2012 at 1:29:56 PM

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[[AC: TruthInTelevision, sort of:]]
* In many animal species, particulary highly territorial ones, height often equals the ''perception'' of asskicking.  This gives humans an advantage when dealing with cheetahs, as a cheetah will usually only attack a prone human because standing ones are too intimidating.

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* In ''DungeonsAndDragons'', there are a number of general types of creature where the {{badass}}ery (or, more specifically "challenge rating") of the sub - types varies almost linearly with rarity and height.
** Baatezu / Devils: all devils are a nasty opponent, but the weakest devil race is the short, stupid, common lemure, while the most dangerous are the massive and rare pit fiends. 
** Giants: The smallest giant races (such as ogres or hill giants) are tough enough, but the biggest giants (such as titans) are an appropriate one - on - one opponent only for the highest - level characters.
** Goblinoids: Goblins are short, common, and not much of a challenge to higer level characters; Hobgoblins are bigger and tougher; Bugbears are the next step up.