Your comments about small elephants reminds me of "Stinz", the series by Donna Barr about "halfhorses".
Heh, that's not surprising, since one of the times that I played in a campaign where one of the PCs was a centaur was in Lace & Steel, which featured Donna Barr - Dreamery-derived halfhorses.
I'm not sure that I want to go to the effort to do separate characteristics for Dexterity and Agility, but it might be something to think about.
If you don't want two separate characteristics (which is crunchier than I like) the easy answer is to say that an agile but non-dexterous character like a ape or a dexterous but non-agile character like a halfhorse or elephant you halve their Dexterity when applying it to dexterity (in the first case) or agility (in the second). That way, the difference only affects characters where it makes a difference.
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Heh, that's not surprising, since one of the times that I played in a campaign where one of the PCs was a centaur was in Lace & Steel, which featured Donna Barr - Dreamery-derived halfhorses.
I'm not sure that I want to go to the effort to do separate characteristics for Dexterity and Agility, but it might be something to think about.
If you don't want two separate characteristics (which is crunchier than I like) the easy answer is to say that an agile but non-dexterous character like a ape or a dexterous but non-agile character like a halfhorse or elephant you halve their Dexterity when applying it to dexterity (in the first case) or agility (in the second). That way, the difference only affects characters where it makes a difference.