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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 6260729" data-attributes="member: 2205">I dunno; I guess it depends on what the chase mechanics would look like.  There's a lot of variables, and anyone who spends any time looking into the biometrics of stuff like this will find it quickly becomes more complex than is manageable.  I find it interesting that a large sauropod is estimated, from footprints and skeletons, to walk at the same speed as a person, more or less.  Despite the obviously great difference in size.  It's a perennial topic of dinosaur debate if a T. rex could outrun a person or not--with the most pessimistic giving you very poor odds with very fast top speeds for the big dino, and others saying that the big guy was a lumbering giant who you could almost certainly outrun. (What his has to do with anything is, of course, anyone's guess, unless you've been hired specifically to consult on a Jurassic Park movie.)So I think focusing on size may be wrong from a biomechanical standpoint, and as you say, probably too complicated anyway.  Rather; going with what "feels" right within reason is probably the best result, and to me, at least, the shorter races being at a slight disadvantage in terms of speed "feels right."  This doesn't mean that the halfling pickpocket can't outrun the big half-orc fighter when he gets caught red-handed, but it does mean that in order to do so, he probably needs to have some kind of situational advantage due to terrain, a "sprinting feat", the half-orc is wearing heavy armor, or friendly dice, or something.  All other things being equal, I'd assume that the larger person could eventually overtake the smaller.</blockquote>

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