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Post by Falconer on Jun 1, 2020 10:50:09 GMT -6
Human male is 3d6+60 inches minimum: 5'3" maximum: 6'6" mean: 5'10 and 5'11
Subtract 3 inches for female.
I liked the idea of using 3d6 because of how ability scores and starting money are generated. I think the range comes out pretty reasonable (no real extremes, but in fantasy maybe we want to reserve those for other races), and I like the bell curve. And the baseline of 5' is so easy to add to.
Suggest any tweaks or extrapolations?
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Jun 3, 2020 7:42:34 GMT -6
The wonderful thing about random height and random weight is it can some unexpected results. When I handed the DM reins to one of the players in my Dark Sun campaign, I wanted a half-giant beauty pageant winner: tall, lithe Vallejo-esque. The random tables gave her a height on the low end of the scale for half giants, and a weight on the high end. So, culturally, she was short and overweight. Exactly the opposite of what I had envisioned.
Now, I would never let a roleplaying opportunity go to waste. So I portrayed her as a shy young woman who lacked self confidence and thought she was always a bit of a screw up. Which was doubly funny because she was a combat monster. "Breeah, you killed that thing with one swordstroke!" "My brother could have killed it with one punch. I need to get better." Fun times.
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Post by Starbeard on Jun 8, 2020 23:24:09 GMT -6
It looks very solid to me. Aside from squeezing into tight dungeon spaces and through back alley windows, I can think of two circumstances where a 5' + 3d6" height factor would come into play even more frequently:
- When finding a suit of armor, roll 3d6 for its sizing (plus 5'). Characters may only wear it effectively if it is sized to within 4", otherwise it must be refitted.
- In melee combat, an opponent with a height advantage of greater than 6" will have a small but significant combat advantage. Depending on how the referee likes to play it, some ideas for what that means might be: breaking ties on initiative; a +1 to hit; a greater than average chance of dealing a headshot, and a reduced chance of getting your own head hit.
In fact, you might even just get rid of the addition of 5' and treat height as a normal 3-18 stat. That way you can still treat height or size as an abstract rating, similarly to Runequest. If you ever need exact height for whatever reason, just call them inches and add 5' (for humans, anyway).
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