But I'm not sure if someone like Robert Wadlow would actually have stats of CCC. He required leg braces to walk, for example, so his Dex would probably be pretty low.
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But I'm not sure if someone like Robert Wadlow would actually have stats of CCC. He required leg braces to walk, for example, so his Dex would probably be pretty low.
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Fair critique. On the other hand he was a pituitary out of control case and so he never did have a chance to 'grow' into and get used to a particular size.
I'm assuming Traveller giants are more stable, or at least treatments halt the growth-or maybe some jerk government/corp/org grows em that way on purpose.
As it happens I have a CC6 in my group AND another C strength character that is a bit smaller, so it's certainly not impossible to come up with them in natural chargen.
On average even the super tall ones are going to be more in the 7 foot range, which makes them tall basketball players.
And if I had a player who just went nuts trying to deal with being so tall or small I probably would allow for reasonable adjustments, especially if they grew up in some high-G/low-G or low nutrient situation that stunted growth but they bulked up late in childhood/college/first term.
Don't know that I would back off the weight though, unless the character had a high endurance and a fitness/activity regimen to match.
But in absence of that, makes for a very clear characterization that I think is often overlooked, and certainly will come in handy for feeding time, survival and literally some lift situations.
Carrying the wounded out of the line of fire for instance.
The vacc suit height thing is making me rethink generic vacc suits in general. I always wanted to promote the idea that serious pro spacers only trust their own suit and don't take to using ship/facility provided ones.
The size thing means I had to think through what a generic suit should look like and why people would want a more custom fit.
Decided that the generic sized vacc suit looks like a Major Matt Mason suit with the expandable joints.
Such a design would allow for a certain range of height differences, however at the extremes you would have chafing, possibly mismatches with the knees, and in general negatives that should apply if they don't 'fit'.
You'll not be fixing that power plant in a survival bubble.
Plus of course the costs of having extra outsize or small suits, or the ultimate price of not having a suit to get into when depressurization hits.
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