This passage brings up a topic digressing from the original post for me...Scylere wrote:I find it difficult to believe that a weak goblin of at the most four feet could gouge out a seven foot tall man's eyes
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Has anyone ever noticed, that the veer from a PCs coded height on this game seems to verge on the *extreme*?
I seem to see tons of seven-foot tall humans, six-foot tall elves, etc, when The coded height of the average human PC is going to be a scant over 6 feet. Even in the guidebooks for the Forgotten Realms, the averages for height don't go beyond what the coded heights turn out to be.
So.. what happened? Some PC a long time back decided they had a 7 foot human? and gods help us, we cant have a character that's shorter than that now, why, we wouldn't be intimidating enough! So what we have is a large contingent of PCs running around with pituitary defects.
I don't quite understand, when there is a height score in the game, why we have to totally disregard it for the sake of making ourselves larger than life.