Quote Originally Posted by Metastachydium View Post
A fair assumption, of course, given that while changing size tends to correlate with changes to Strength, those values are not neccessarily taken into account (v. Enlarge/Reduce Person).
As enlarge or reduce person show, the specific mechanism for changing size also lists the ability changes that it causes (reduce person is -2 to strength for a reduced size category).

The table is for size changes due to increased HD on a monster, applying it blindly to all size changes has no rules support.

The reason the FBS scales strength for size changes down is not because of some general rule that size changes from any cause scale by that table, it's because we've got exactly two examples of monsters that scale down from adult size due to youth in the rules, and giants lose exactly 8 strength per size category while dragons lose approximately 8 strength per size category and no change seems unreasonable. Scaling the MitD down in size if it is too big to fit under the umbrella means either houseruling or the dungeonbred template, and if Rich is houseruling down size, then it's not unreasonable to expect him to also houserule down strength, as the examples in the rules of that happening show.

But a listed (Ex) ability? That HAS its rules listed in the ability, and says nothing about losing size. And even if it said, "Scale strength based on size as per the size increase table in the improving monsters section of the MM (you'll need to calculate this yourself, reduce rather than increase for smaller sizes)", that still would give 35 strength at fine, which is enough to make smashing someone through a wall by pure strength plausible.