Characters height

[Forwax]

I seems to recall some post about height of character but I can't seems to find it and I remember it was anwsered around the line that it could be figured quite easily.

My question tho is... I tend to play in really fantastic and highly epic setting and having just read "The Children of Húrin" I feel a bit nostalgic. I'm just a fan of Tolkien what can I say!  I know it is probably the thing that the GM would decide himself what is the height of a race of not and what would be the absolute range for this or that race. But keeping question about this book that would be, is Novus are height absolute ? What or which stats make some human be 5'4" or 6'4" ? Is it STR+CON like I think now or something along those line ?

I hope you understand me better than what I'm re-reading myself before posting LOL

[imported_Rasyr]

Novus gives the average heights - not absolutes.

And personally, I don't think that stats should be part of determining height, as a character could be strong and very healthy and still be short.

[samwise7]

I've never thought of using Stats to account for height, but I know BRP has a stat called Size that seems to account for that.  It is also the one stat that gets a lot of discussion about it in that game.

That being said, there's nothing from you making your own house rules for such thing.  Just make up a new chart and give bonuses to height based on what their stats are.  Maybe even low stats subtract from it as well.

[imported_Rasyr]

That being said, there's nothing from you making your own house rules for such thing.  Just make up a new chart and give bonuses to height based on what their stats are.  Maybe even low stats subtract from it as well.

Very true

[Forwax]

would you go so far to say that a human could have a 6'10" or 4'6" ? or a dwarf to be 5'5" ? (I know I could just do what I want about race and their attribute but I wanted your input to how far and free we can be as GM and/or player)

[imported_Rasyr]

Sure. But, I would say that the final decision is up to the GM - based on what is possible for the setting that he is running. I can easily see some human cultures where the average height is in the 6'-7' range and others where height averages 4'6" to 5'.

The same for Dwarves having the occasional individual who is a bit taller than the norm, though if he is too tall, you might want to give him a "Giantism" talent to account for that size increase.

[Fidoric]

Or call him "Human"  BTW, I like the idea of a giant dwarf. I am not sure of the term in English though: oxymoron ? This could be the name of this race.

[imported_Witchking20k]

Hilarous.  You questioning your english about the word "oxymoron" is IMO an "oxymoron"