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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6169901" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>I'm still wondering about giving it a Strength bump. A Cave Bear was as big as the largest brown bears (e.g. a Kodiak bear), not an "average-sized" brown bear.</p><p></p><p>Hmm, although the SRD Brown Bear weighs "more than 1,800 pounds", which is <strong>very</strong> big for a <em>Ursus arctos</em> which implies its Str 27 is representative of said largest brown bears.</p><p></p><p>Further, Cave Bears were also about the size of a Polar Bear, which have Str 27.</p><p></p><p>It's just that an extra half-point (1d8 to 2d4) of average claw damage and an extra point (2d6 to 2d8) of average bite damage seems a little low relative to comparative proportions of the original.</p><p></p><p>AD&D 1d6 claws vs 1d8 claws (+29%), 1d8 bite vs 1d12 bite (+44%)</p><p>3rd Ed 1d8+8 claws vs 2d4+8 claws (+4%), 2d6+4 bite vs 2d8+4 bite (+18%)</p><p></p><p>The BECMI Grizzly/Cave Bears make a better comparison, though:</p><p></p><p>BECMI 1d8 claws vs 2d4 claws (+11%), 1d10 bite vs 2d6 bite (+27%)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6169901, member: 57383"] I'm still wondering about giving it a Strength bump. A Cave Bear was as big as the largest brown bears (e.g. a Kodiak bear), not an "average-sized" brown bear. Hmm, although the SRD Brown Bear weighs "more than 1,800 pounds", which is [B]very[/B] big for a [I]Ursus arctos[/I] which implies its Str 27 is representative of said largest brown bears. Further, Cave Bears were also about the size of a Polar Bear, which have Str 27. It's just that an extra half-point (1d8 to 2d4) of average claw damage and an extra point (2d6 to 2d8) of average bite damage seems a little low relative to comparative proportions of the original. AD&D 1d6 claws vs 1d8 claws (+29%), 1d8 bite vs 1d12 bite (+44%) 3rd Ed 1d8+8 claws vs 2d4+8 claws (+4%), 2d6+4 bite vs 2d8+4 bite (+18%) The BECMI Grizzly/Cave Bears make a better comparison, though: BECMI 1d8 claws vs 2d4 claws (+11%), 1d10 bite vs 2d6 bite (+27%) [/QUOTE]
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