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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 9803941" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Okay, these Giant Mosquitoes are only the size of a very small bird like a Robin* or Wren.</p><p></p><p>* I mean proper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_robin" target="_blank"><strong>Robin Rebreasts</strong></a> (<em>Erithacus rubecula</em>) like we have over here, not those Thrushes with a makeover they call <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_robin" target="_blank"><strong>Robins</strong></a> (<em>Turdus migratorius</em>) in America.</p><p></p><p>Both <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_wren" target="_blank">Eurasian Wrens</a></strong> (<em>Troglodytes troglodytes</em>) and <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_wren" target="_blank">Pacific Wrens</a></strong> (<em>Troglodytes pacificus</em>) have wingspans about six inches, suggesting they're a comparable size to these mozzies.</p><p></p><p>For such a tiny animal to have 1-4 hit points suggests it's absurdly tough, plus if it's sated by drinking 2 hit points of blood it'd have to turn into a swollen blood balloon to hold that much fluid if it drinks from a regular creature.</p><p></p><p>A normal 1 HD humanoid has, like eight pints of blood and four or five hitpoints, so you'd have to get three or four pints in each mosquito to satisfy it. A bird that size weighs a fraction of an ounce: according to Wikipedia a Robin is 16–22 g (0.56–0.78 oz). So a sated mozzie would be flying around with up to a hundred times its own bodyweight in blood. That seems a bit off!</p><p></p><p>It makes more sense to assume the wingspan is wrong and they're actually closer to the size of a Stirge (2 foot wingspan) than a small passerine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 9803941, member: 57383"] Okay, these Giant Mosquitoes are only the size of a very small bird like a Robin* or Wren. * I mean proper [url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_robin'][b]Robin Rebreasts[/B][/URL] ([I]Erithacus rubecula[/I]) like we have over here, not those Thrushes with a makeover they call [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_robin'][B]Robins[/B][/URL] ([i]Turdus migratorius[/I]) in America. Both [b][url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_wren']Eurasian Wrens[/url][/b] ([i]Troglodytes troglodytes[/i]) and [b][url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_wren']Pacific Wrens[/URL][/B] ([i]Troglodytes pacificus[/i]) have wingspans about six inches, suggesting they're a comparable size to these mozzies. For such a tiny animal to have 1-4 hit points suggests it's absurdly tough, plus if it's sated by drinking 2 hit points of blood it'd have to turn into a swollen blood balloon to hold that much fluid if it drinks from a regular creature. A normal 1 HD humanoid has, like eight pints of blood and four or five hitpoints, so you'd have to get three or four pints in each mosquito to satisfy it. A bird that size weighs a fraction of an ounce: according to Wikipedia a Robin is 16–22 g (0.56–0.78 oz). So a sated mozzie would be flying around with up to a hundred times its own bodyweight in blood. That seems a bit off! It makes more sense to assume the wingspan is wrong and they're actually closer to the size of a Stirge (2 foot wingspan) than a small passerine. [/QUOTE]
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