Strongest small race?

[Melvin the Mediocre]

Is there any small playable race with a bonus to strength? Or any other small race besides the wayang that does not have a penalty to strength?

[Mystic_Snowfang]

Gathlain- Small sized fey race (bonus to dex and cha)
Wyrwood- Small sized construct race

If the GM allows it you can play a small sized of the planar races or dhampirs.

[Weirdo]

Aasimar and tieflings can be size small, and the angel-blooded, demon-spawn, oni-spawn, and qlippoth-spawn variant heritages have strength bonuses.

Non-Human Aasimar wrote:

Non-human aasimars have the same statistics as human aasimars with the exception of size. Thus a halfling aasimar is Small but otherwise possesses the same statistics and abilities as a human aasimar—the difference is purely cosmetic. Non-human aasimars do not possess any of the racial abilities of their base race. However, they are usually raised in the same cultural context as other members of their base race, and thus generally adopt the same fighting style as their peers, use the same types of weapons and armor, and study the same skills.

Non-Human Tieflings wrote:

In game terms, the difference between non-human tieflings and human tieflings is purely a matter of size. Unless they have specific tiefling-related size modifiers, the tieflings of each of these races are the same size as their non-fiendish ancestors. They gain any of the bonuses or penalties related to that size, but gain no racial bonuses except those of the tiefling; beyond size, their humanoid ancestry is purely cosmetic.

Other than that I think you're correct.

EDIT: Looks like there are a few other oddities, and while I think aasimar and tieflings are the only two races that are called out as coming in smaller packages it makes sense to me that other planetouched and dhampir should have similar options. The jiang-shi, moroi, and nosferatu dhampir variant heritages have Str bonuses. So do oreads and suli. Fun fact - largely because of the tendency to give small races Str penalties and Dex bonuses, the races contained within the ARG grant a net -12 to Strength and +48 to Dexterity.

[Paladin of Baha-who?]

No to the first question, unless your GM lets you use the alternate aasimar and tiefling heritages that let you be small.

Other races without a penalty to strength are Monkey Goblin and Gathlain, neither of which are usually available as PC races.

[Imbicatus]

Wayangs are also small with no STR penalty, and are PFS legal.

[Melvin the Mediocre]

Weirdo wrote:

Aasimar and tieflings can be size small

Wow, thanks so much, I can't believe I forgot that. Now I just need to pick the demihuman parentage for my roc riding lancer druid!

[Legowaffles]

Well. I don't know how about the strongest. I know that Kobold is by far the weakest small (and player in general) race however.

[Weirdo]

Melvin the Mediocre wrote:

Weirdo wrote:

Aasimar and tieflings can be size small

Wow, thanks so much, I can't believe I forgot that. Now I just need to pick the demihuman parentage for my roc riding lancer druid!

You're welcome. Imbicatus' post reminded me however that they aren't PFS legal so hopefully this is a home game.