Star Wars d20: Brunnehilda

[Agback]

Ouch!

I used the system suggested in the Star Wars d20 Revised Core Rulebook to generate my character's height and weight, and she came out as a real Wagnerian soprano: 170 cm tall (5'7") and 89 kg (over 196 lb).

The system only generates height to the nearest decimetre (four inches). It only generates weight to the nearest 10 kg (twenty-two pounds).

Three out of every sixteen (nearly 19%) human male PCs are less than five feet tall.

6.7% of women are less than four feet tall. 62.5% of women are less than five feet tall.

The average man is 170cm tall (5'7") and weighs 105 kg (231 lb). His body mass index is over 36, which puts him into the 'grossly obese' category.

The average woman is 150 cm tall (4'11") and weighs 74 kg (163 lb). Her body mass index is almost 33.

I know the system in optional and unimportant. But surely if it wasn't worth the effort to do better than this it would have been better to leave it out altogether.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Ranger REG]

If you want to ignore the humans' height and weight measurement, you may do so. But I find the chart useful when generating NPCs of nonhuman species.

Someone else might find it useful for their nonhuman PCs.

 

[Agback]

If you want to ignore the humans' height and weight measurement, you may do so. But I find the chart useful when generating NPCs of nonhuman species.

Okay. But aren't you afraid that the results for aliens are just as screwy as the results for humans? By the table, a Rodian is supposed to be taller and lighter than a man. But if you make your humans a realistic size Rodians will be shorter and heavier.

Regards,


Agback

 

[bwgwl]

thanks for the heads-up. i haven't taken a close look at the chart yet, but i had been planning on using it as a shortcut when doing NPC descriptions.

being an American and not having a great intuitive grasp of the metric system, i didn't realize it could give such skewed results.

 

[dpdx]

Thank God!

I thought I had just rolled pretty well when my Han Solo-like character came out to 6' 7", 250. I'm adjusting him to something reasonable, post-haste. He can't be bigger than the Wookiee, or I'm making a Rodian his co-pilot!

Has anyone seen any errata/revisions for Revised yet? Sounds like they could use some.

 

[King_Stannis]

Re: Thank God!

I thought I had just rolled pretty well when my Han Solo-like character came out to 6' 7", 250. I'm adjusting him to something reasonable, post-haste. He can't be bigger than the Wookiee, or I'm making a Rodian his co-pilot!

that is freaking hilarious. maybe you could get a picture of randy johnson and just go with it. at least you'd be intimidating.

 

[NemesisPress]

Have you been to the mall recently? [Or maybe a gaming convention! : ) ] Those stats look about average for a consumer society like ours. But then again, I didn't see any malls featured in the movies, so perhaps they really are an advanced society.