"too heavy to throw"

[Scheneighnay]

I mean come on, you can't tell me giant Karlach can't throw someone who's 150 lbs.

I thought it was to stop you from cheesing boss fights, until I had her throw a mindflayer into a ravine and it just reappeared prone next to her.

A lot of fights would be more interesting if we could throw around more people.
It was funny when she couldn't throw Fatty Boombalatty the necromancer, then it got old.

[Rhym]

With 20 STR you can throw the standard 80kg humanoids around. Anything below won't cut it. And frankly throwing a full sized man requires some strength.

[wei270]

is there a table that tells us how much we can throw give what str value?

[Sentient_Toaster]

Both https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Throw and https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Throw agree that the current formula is (STR^2)/5 kg.

Personally I'd be inclined to be generous to at least some character builds (e.g. bump that upwards if proficient in athletics, or by class -- like, monks and barbarians being better at this) given that casters are basically allowed to warp reality -- but according to those it's based purely on strength.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

Both https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Throw and https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Throw agree that the current formula is (STR^2)/5 kg.

Personally I'd be inclined to be generous to at least some character builds (e.g. bump that upwards if proficient in athletics, or by class -- like, monks and barbarians being better at this) given that casters are basically allowed to warp reality -- but according to those it's based purely on strength.

Does the size modifier to strength checks not exist in this game?

My Karlach is 18 strength, so assuming her tavern brawler feat doesn't impact it, I would think casting enlarge on her should, but it hasn't.

[HTakara]

do you lift bro?

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

Both https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Throw and https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Throw agree that the current formula is (STR^2)/5 kg.

Personally I'd be inclined to be generous to at least some character builds (e.g. bump that upwards if proficient in athletics, or by class -- like, monks and barbarians being better at this) given that casters are basically allowed to warp reality -- but according to those it's based purely on strength.

Yes, I think godlike beings in D&D have like 25-30 strength? So they'd essentially be clean & jerking like 3/4 of the regular human record in real life. Lol.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

Both https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Throw and https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Throw agree that the current formula is (STR^2)/5 kg.

Personally I'd be inclined to be generous to at least some character builds (e.g. bump that upwards if proficient in athletics, or by class -- like, monks and barbarians being better at this) given that casters are basically allowed to warp reality -- but according to those it's based purely on strength.

Yes, I think godlike beings in D&D have like 25-30 strength? So they'd essentially be clean & jerking like 3/4 of the regular human record in real life. Lol.

I've looked up the math before for a friend's DnD campaign because he wanted to see how much weight a team of giants can pull.

Turns out it's not nearly as much as they should, and weight rules scale really poorly the bigger the creature you go.