From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: Ingentization
Date:	Wed, 27 May 1998 04:58:05 -0700

Ereskanti wrote:

> > The first one isn't terribly believable, though - I'd hate to see a
> > full-grown Dwarf that size give birth. Incidentally, if you open up the
> > size table, you're bound to get players interested in the Variation
> > table as well - and the munchkins go wild for that +8 bonus to their
> > stats. (Who needs Priority A?) A bit more common sense, and a bit less
> > reliance on tables that don't apply.

> it was an idea Mr. Breton...

Check 'em before you post 'em.

> besides the "extreme variations"
> would also NOT be allowable as a beginning character without cyber/bioware to
> make it so IMO.

At least as far as the critter size table is concerned, no
augmentation's needed. You born that way and gonna die that way.

> And as far as gaining those stats, the table suggestion is an
> NPC thing, otherwise you are paying for those attribs with some hefty Karma IF
> you are using the optional attribute maximum rules...

It's not even an NPC thing: It's a Critter thing. You were offering
that it be used for beginning characters, so you *can't* pay Karma for
them. Applying the table to (meta)humans, the bonus comes for free - no
zits, no worry, no nothin'.

That being said, there's a wide range of heights and weights
vanilla-humans fall under (check out a copy of Guiness' world Records -
which I've somehow misplaced). I'm not sure I'd translate those
straight across to all metatypes and variants; humans suffering giantism
already have a plague of worries and I'm not sure that a wakayambi or
(troll) giant would fare much better. It also marks your ass if you
ever have to conceal your identity.


- Matt

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