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