Hi,
I made my warrior character a bit taller with setscale, and it seems that not only does this has an effect on size, and speed, but also on power.
Do you confirm that ?

For example creating a giant character size 4, single or double shot kill guards in city, which isn't possible with normal size character, so I guess there is still an effect even on modest increase in size.

Do you confirm this ?

So that's why those Giants are so strong!

You must have been reading the same thread I was because someone already brought this up and tested it, so seeing as you felt it necessary to copy that person, the answer I think is yes. It does affect your run/walk speed and it seems to affect melee damage. This effectively makes the High Elves superior in stats to every other race by default.

O man that's messed up. I wonder how much of an effect it does have.

It has not in previous games and I don't see why it would not. All it does is scale everything visual up about your character, including height, as consequently movement speed. But that should be it, I don't think it affects health or damage or anything else. Unless that's new to Skyrim. (But I can't think of why they would possibly do that.)

Actually it seems that it does affect damage as well: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1286166-hidden-stat-differences-based-on-race-selection/

Not too happy about this, as it means Altmer are stronger than any other race, despite their slender bodyshape. It also means that a big hulking Orc is faster than a Kahjiit or Woodelf.

Oh wow. That makes no sense.... I would love to get a developer in here to explain that. I'm honestly curious now!

All the previous games had Attributes to regulate/counter & mitigate the effects of that. Skyrim doesn't, looks like formula's got screwed up when they yanked out the attributes.

[Edit: probably being caused by the Physics Engine/Physic Model incorporated into the meshes & knockback/stagger effect chances, probably by design but not exactly 'checked' for maintaining its output integrity. Having an element ripped out of a complex equation {which is what the whole 'game' engine basically is} tends to have a lot of unstabilising effects]]