House Rules: Height, Weight & Strength

by Wyatt R. Lavigne

From wq121@freenet.victoria.bc.caMon Jun 9 13:57:06 1997 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:06:55 -0500 From: "Wyatt R. Lavigne" Reply to: rolemaster@tower.clark.net To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Height, Weight & Strength

(In reference to the much snipage about body weights)

RMCI

Has a great formula for working out the weigth of some based on their hight and build. It is ussable for any Humanoid type creature.

I will use myself and the Gold Golem on the cover of Arms Law as the examples. I have made a few special modifications to this table.

Here is the Fomula & Abrevations:

HT = (Hight of being in inches)

WCF = (Weight per Cubic Foot of material)

(HT x 0.8898) x (HT x 0.8898) x HT x 0.00136 x WCF = (The beings base weight)

(The beings base weight) x (((Your current Strength Bonus)/2 + Your Build/Frame Rating) x 4) as a +/- percentage = Your acctual weight

[In RM2 divide the Strength bonus by 5]

WCF Values:

Human Flesh	47	Halfling Flesh	70	Orc Flesh	61
Urkahai		56	Elvish		35	Dwarvish Flesh	83
Liquid Fat	56.25	Water		62.4	Ice		57.2
Corn Silage	45	Brass		550	Bronze		550
Iron		445	Aluminum	170	Lead		710
Platinum	1340	Silver		655	Gold		1205
Steel		500	Bone		115	Magnesium	110
Salt		136	Diamond		200	Glass		160	
Granite		170	Wax		112	Leather		54
Ash		47	Ivory		117	Balsa		8
Cedar		35	Ebony		76	Rubber		74
Mahogany	41	Oak (CTD)	47	Pine		28
Titanium	280	Clay		140	Coal		100
Porcelin	150

Now here are the examples...

I'm 5'10 and I weigh 158 lbs. I'm a skinny well muscled guy if that makes any sense to you. Lets see how close it is...

5'10" is 70 inches.

(70 x 0.08898) x (70 x 0.08898) x 70 x 0.00136 x 47 = 173.58 lbs

173.58 is for a male of average build, average strengeth, my hight.

My build I would put at -5 naturally (Use page 95 of Character/Campaign Law to roughly figure out your Build/Frame Rating) but over the years I have "bulked up" by working out. I now would have a rough +6 St bonus in RMSS (Using my Strength Table extrabolated from Champions for Rolemaster)

Lets work out the rest of the mechanics.

6 St/2 = 3 + -5 Build/Frame Rating = -2

-2 * 4 = -8% to the base weight of 173.58

0.92 * 173.58 = 159.7 lbs

Well it's pretty close.

Now for the 10 foot Gold Golem.

120 inches tall and a final build rating of +6.

If you do the math he weighs a slim trim 27,802 pounds.

I hope this was of some help.

Wyatt


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