New Size Scale Discussion

Karbo wrote:

mhh 130 might seem a little big thouh ? ^^

I thought it might; that's why I'm asking. It's as you like. The wiki says 100 feet under the "old" scale, so under the new scale the maximum would be almost 140 feet. (Under the "old" scale, the wiki already implied that some fairies could grow significantly taller than Crisis.)

If you want to set another maximum, I'll adapt Lucilya's maximum height to that.

Huh, might have to fix Grendel's height now, even Crisis is taller by this point XD

Also, not to revive old flames, but I always thought it would be much better if swallowing prey whole would only work when eating small creatures, and for predators that can unhinge their jaws to begin with, like nagas or slug girls or chlaenas. Having anything else eat large prey whole would not only be awkward and bothersome but would be impractical in the long run. What if they choke or get caught by some other predator in the middle of it?

Cliff, if you read my analysis of the Svila Dridders, you'd know they have no venom. At all. Therefore, liquefying preys is impossible, thus they can't swallow humans whole and alive.

As for nekos, they're taller than humans, so on average, they'd need to be taller than 6'

Technically, the 6' height average would probably be better for Elves and Nekos, with Humans kept around 5'10". We just round to 6' because most of the demi-humans who aren't human are about that height, and that the humans "below" them in size aren't that much smaller.

As I can't see the general living conditions of Felarya being any more beneficial to people than a modern first-world nation. There's the healing nature, yes, but it only goes so far. Maybe genetics could encourage taller people, but then it'd seem a bit odd if practically everything on Felarya had a "tall" prevalence.

Humans in Felarya are taller on average. If they're at 5'10, then they're no longer taller than the average.

Only character I'm going to change her size after seeing the new chart - if I do - is Seelvee. She's supposed to be one BIG dryad, now even Crisis is a bit bigger than her. xD Anyway, the rest of my giant characters can stay well - 70-some feet for a dridder and for a succubus are just fine, and fairies have no size problems.

EDIT: On a second thought and after speaking of it on DA with rcs619... yeah, I might as well change all my giant babes' heights in order to fit the new average in the end.

Well I like the chart myself. Although I was surprised to learn that some of Crisis's friends are taller than she is. The big shocker for me was how much Anko has increased in size. This mean the story I wrote where Katrika swallowed her whole is no longer valid as such an act is impossible-for now.

It occurs to me that I haven't used any giant characters aside from Drayla, and never actually tried to numerically reference her size. (I like to be a bit more scale descriptive than just throwing out a number of feet tall anyway.)

In other words, nothing in my stories had to change for the new scale. Yay me.

I had to change a few things on the wikki but that's okay.

Geez. I've gotta wonder now if I want to readjust Elsie's height... on one hand, she's supposed to be big, but on the other one, she already is. Even with the rescaling, 130 feet tall is an awful lot.

Same dillema here. It gets to the point where it makes interaction with humans feel a little forced. It's just another reason why nagas, fairies, and mermaids are so popular.

I would like to keep all of my harpies the size that they are. Feeding shouldn't be a problem as avian species are known for swallowing large chunks of food, right?

Wow... Just wow... thank you for clearing up some of my size issue's now... how to figure the size difference between my characters in my story and... and... oh... my... god... I... I think I'm going to go crawl into a ball here in this corner and hide they are going to be way so freaking huge and I work near things close to those size's on a daily basis and I never actually figured anything could... could... uuhhh *thump* mnjuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

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