How tall is the tallest character you've ever made? How tall is your average character?
I remember way back when I did online RPing there was a hilarious one-upmanship with players who had to make their 'tall guy' character taller than the existing tallest guy.
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I always play characters shorter than me for some reason, except for one character who was a 7-foot 350- pound half orc bard with performance comedy
Why not play a character who happens to be a big guy for you?
Bane?
>make average height character
>everyone even NPCs tower over you
Tallest ever? Probably the 8'7" Bruiser morph in Eclipse Phase. Shortest ever, a 'tall' goblin that was about 3'5" or so. Average? About 6'2" or so, because it's slightly tall for men and very tall for women, therefore a very solid height.
I'd be hard pressed to think of a system where being big gives you considerable advantage except maybe for Grappling (that nobody uses anyway) and wielding oversized weapon (which doesn't fucking matter because lolmartials) *. So I either go Small for dodge AC, better sneaking, being smaller target and lower food consumption (when applicable) or I go Fuckhuge because FUCK YOU I'M HUGE.
* Yes, there's that one thing in WoD giving you extra hitbox, but those Merit points are also better spent elsewhere.
Eh, I always roll on randomization tables. I know its a fantasy and it's my character and all that jazz, but if I just make it my ideal body type and appearance I feel skeezy for some reason. So I roll, and it gets what it gets, and I live with it, and I feel better about myself. It usually works out just fine, though sometimes I get interesting things. For instance, I made this half orc barbarian right? I had been picturing a big guy, tall broad the whole 9 yards you know? I rolled 5'6 and nearly 300 pounds, took that and my 18 stregth and it was decided he was short and inhmanly stocky, to the point of seeming almost deformed. It was fun, and I managed to argue a bonus on grapple off the dm by citing the relevance of a lower center of gravity. I've had really tall characters before, but now a days I just like randomizing more than inserting my preferences.
Actually being really tall would be a disadvantage in a grapple realistically. A smaller but equally strong opponent could topple you with exeding ease.
You mean the tallest humanoid character, right?
I don't want to know anything about this gif.
Stuff like that are like uncanny valley but for porn.
ten inch
That is skeevy. The reaction you have is normal.
I had a character with permanent shape change to be a cloud giant, so he was, quite literally, huge. I stood 32 feet 3 inches high.
Tallest was a princess from a land where the royal family was all descended from giants. At 8 feet she was still the shortest in her family, and acted dainty despite being able to flip over a horse carriage.
Manlets, when will they ever learn?
That sounds like your fetish.
Tallest? A 2m Troll in a shadowrun homebrew-clone
Average? 1.80 m
shortest? 87 cm dwarf in a homebrew campaign
I played a 5'1" male character. His saving grace was having high strength prehensile hair.
He needs to cross over with Bayonetta, acquire a stepladder, and have disgusting prehensile-hair-person sex. Preferably far away from anyone else.
I won't deny this.
Tallest was a 2 metre 50 Goliath, and my shortest was a halfing born with dwarfism (I had to explain why he had 4 strength) who was one and a half foot tall. Average is around 1.80 metres
...
He was far too preoccupied with self surgery for that. He was also virgin.
>self surgery
>flesh_golem.jpg
Don't be transphobic.
>high strength prehensile hair.
prehensile
nose hair?
not what I meant
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The tallest character I've ever made as a player was six and a half feet tall and built like a stone wall.
He was the party tank.
He didn't trust others to perform surgery on him so he either did it himself or used simulacrum of himself to perform it.
Tallest is my current character in Exalted, female solar standing at 8'1". My second tallest is my lizardfolk fighter in pathfinder, at 7'6".
Though generally I tend to play characters that are roughly as tall as I am (and I'm 6'6").
My shortest at the moment is a 5'4" ish female elf in shadowrun
>(and I'm 6'6")
How is that relevant?
Currently playing a Wild Magic Sorcerer in a 5e campaign. I started at 6'2. and have since gotten the "Your size changes by 1d10 inches" 6 times. Currently she stands at 9'2".
Because generally speaking players often tend to default to their own natural height unless they have a specific vision for their character or their race dictates something different. Now contribute or fuck off douchenozzle
Guts/Heracles sized
I've played various Goliath that were all about 7 1/2 feet, but my tallest was a halfogre Rogue/Duelist who was a little over 8 feet tall.
>Giantess is my fetish
>never made a giantess character
I feel proud of myself.
But uh, I think the tallest character I've ever made was 5'11"
In D&D I always made my character as short and light as possible if the DM didn't make me roll for height/weight. Being able to fit into smaller spaces and being more easily lifted by teammates is more useful than the opposite, which has absolutely no mechanical advantages.
In Shadowrun I had a 9ft tall Troll, which is pretty normal. 6.5ft tall human smuggler in Star Wars d20. 7ft tall voidborn psyker in Dark Heresy. All those were rolled for randomly though.
My humans usually vary between 5'10'' and 6'1'', even in my One Piece campaigns where 10ft tall humans were common.
My tallest ever was a stone giant at around 25ft.
I just describe my characters as "average height" if asked. Or "towering" if they are supposed to be the brutish fighter/barbarian type.
In Runequest (iirc) Size is a stat that is basically your height and weight. It increases melee damage and maybe adds hit points. So it's directly useful.
I'm a tall guy, verging on cartoonishly tall, but I always play relatively normal sized characters because it's not something that's important to me, unless I want to specifically make some sort of ubermensch for whatever reason.
On the contrary, there is a literal manlet in our group who is obsessed with height. When he first met me, he specifically wanted to know how tall I was, and tried to make a character slightly taller than I was that would have fucked the chart we had to determine various size to weight ratios relative to equip burden. The next time we played, he made an extended chart just to include whatever arbitrary measurements he wanted.
Tallest PC ever? 250 feet
Average height? Five foot six inches to six feet.
I think that's bullshit. You'd have to play like 50 other characters tall 1 feet each to get to the average of 5'6"
Depends on the method he uses to determine averages.
The average I'm using is the most frequently used number, not the mean.
mathematical method
sum / amount
So it's actually a mode?
Yes.
Tallest? Easy, 10 foot tall Ogryn in Only War.
Why even play manlets, really.
>Hey user, how tall can humans get?
>well well the book says up to seven feet isn't unheard of-
>everyone instantly makes characters seven feet tall
>guys, this is a little ridiculous
>well how tall can we make them?
>erm... 6'5
>everyone makes their characters 6'5
Which is why I just have my players roll for height now
>fetish is average-body girls with pointy faces who dress fashionably in covering clothes
>pretty much the female archetype of the setting
>no one complains, they somehow see it as LESS magical realm even though it's pretty much my fetish world
>He doesn't want his PCs playing Jojo-tier muscley strongmen regardless of class
Why tho?
Male Nephilim Jayan Weaponmaster in Anima
9'4", 840 lbs of "Make me get outta your way!"
Also the perfect foil for the Female Daimah Neph Assassin.
He was the gruff older bodyguard to her spoiled, overly energetic young noble, as well as one of the few things that could actually keep her still for more than a few seconds.
Good times.
Don't think I've had anyone break like 6'5", assuming we don't count the heavy maintenance bot.
Average is probably about 6 or so.Most characters range between 5'11" and 6'2" with one notable outlier that was slightly over (ifrit skald), one that was a bit under (Corelian pilot), but the average score is dragged down by the fact that I'm currently playing a 5'6" witch. Part of the fun with that is to make someone that sounded as intimidating as possible and then make him super intimidating through roleplay. Never assume the effeminate witch a whole head smaller than you isn't secretly running EVERYTHING behind the scenes.
As unintimidating as possible*
thank you spellcheck for correcting my shit at the wrong time.
My PF group was entirely tall fuckers, including the mages and female characters,
and I was a "chinese" oni, so rather small like 5' 8" average asian dude height (I actually rolled for it), and my DM talked me out of it since he thought it was kinda dumb I was so much smaller than the rest of the party with 26 strength while raging, and 20 fucking intimidate.
Rolled on a different table, came out 7' 6"
I'm now like half a foot taller than the rest of the party at least difference, and It's actually made my character better, especially roleplaying it.
6 foot 5 is my average. That's my real hight and I like keeping things consistent.
oh forgot to add my average character height.
it's like kinda between 5' 11" and 6' 3"
with variants as part of their race, had only one major outlier myself, a drow at like 5' 3"
That's straight up the shortest though, I hate playing dwarves/gnomes/kobolds other short races. Never want to play a midget/stunted character either, in systems
Also FUCK kender.
Fuck anyone who plays a kender.
The tallest character I ever played was 6' 11". He could also bench press a horse, and swung a mean greatsword.
Best part, though, is that he was a wizard.
Tallest is a minotaur figher I'm currently playing. We say that he's 8 feet tall, but I think his horns are supposed to go another 2 feet or something crazy. I don't really care either way as I play the minotaur mostly for stats and for the imagery of the bullman, like that storm god dude from King of Dragon Pass, whatever his name was.
In my experience, though, height is something people make a big deal out of. I don't know if that's something bad, but having three of five people being greater than 6 foot (and all three of them make a big deal of describing their characters' height when it's description time) is a little odd when the average male is sub-six across most of the world. Maybe the whole point is to avoid average, but you'd think that people would learn that physical attributes are some of the less important characteristics someone can have.
It seems like a lazy shortcut most of the time, but it's not like you're writing a novel when you're making your character. You just want something that you like and something you like playing. I'm not saying "D&D could be something so much more if we only took it more seriously", but it really, really gets old when a character's whole shtick is that it looks like they came from a fetishist's dream.
Shortest: 5'2" half-elf trap or for a one-off a 3'2" young crab
Tallest: 39'9" crab king
How big are these giants compared to the rest of the party?
I'm a manlet in real life, only 5'10 or so, so I usually play tall humans if I play humans. But I'm also drawn to small characters, especially hobgoblins.
Tallest: 8' half-orc circus strong man
average: not counting the above orc, I think about 5'10"
>tallest
7'6'' 19 STR 7 INT Wood Elf cleric
>average
About 6'2", but that's only because the Wood Elf and the Goliath drag the mean up. Otherwise, it would be mid to high fives, no question.
>I'm a tall guy, verging on cartoonishly tall
>on Veeky Forums
T-Tim?
>3'2" young crab
>Tallest: 39'9" crab king
uh
>5'5" in real life
>tallest human I've ever played was 6'
>normally play a dwarf
I don't even care.
Most of my characters are shorter, pretty much on merit of I am tall, but I've a werewolf the apocalypse character who's like 10 and a half feet tall when he goes crinos.
Shortest humanoid?
>10 Inches
Tallest humanoid?
6'1
I went out of my way to make my second shortest character (a human) shorter than every other party member, including his love interest.
Sheit, all these übermensch players here going with 6'* averages.
I think my tallest was a failed human experiment in a Fallout setting standing at a good 7'4''.
Shortest must've been my pixie for a one-off who was about the size of a hand.
Tallest PC was 12ft, but he was basically a refluffed Warforged.
Tallest living character was around 7ft, I think. He was a dragonborn.
After those two it's all dwarves and one undead kid. Probably an orc in there somewhere.
>Giantess is my fetish
Me too, but unlike you i've made a lot of giantess characters. I have an all-female race that are bigger than planets, stars, and galaxies.
The tallest of them is so big that to her perspective the universe is a sphere that is only 3 meters in diameter.
The tallest I have made was a 6'2 elf. A GM made my sorceress gradually taller due to a variety of reasons. I think she was nearly 8 feet when we decided to quit the campaign.
The shortest was probably 4'9.
And the average is around the top of 5.
>I decide to make a 6'5 female cleric of a strength god
>Height isn't necessary to follow him, I just decided it as a quirk of my character for her to think she was gifted this by her god (even though she wasn't)
>Next campaign, other player decides to make a cleric of this same god
>He makes his cleric 7 feet tall, a monster of a person
why?
To show that his character was double blessed by the god!
650 meter spaceship
>due to a variety of reasons
Oh really.
I mean a variety of IC reasons.
OOC, it was obviously his fetish.
He wants to be a big guy even for you
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