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::: 1) Dwarves would have to weigh correspondingly more. Like, four times as much as a human. Do infant Dwarves weigh 40-50 lbs? 2) Five times as slow? Two points of Con is more like, 4/5ths as slow. That is an enormous difference. And it does nothing to explain Dwarves, who heal 20% faster (on average). 3) Implantation/estrous/fertilization happen less often, social pressures keep populations in line, etc etc. Gestation periods, though, just don't correspond to lifespans. If they did, horses would live to be like 150 years old at the max and 100 years on average. -[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]] | ::: 1) Dwarves would have to weigh correspondingly more. Like, four times as much as a human. Do infant Dwarves weigh 40-50 lbs? 2) Five times as slow? Two points of Con is more like, 4/5ths as slow. That is an enormous difference. And it does nothing to explain Dwarves, who heal 20% faster (on average). 3) Implantation/estrous/fertilization happen less often, social pressures keep populations in line, etc etc. Gestation periods, though, just don't correspond to lifespans. If they did, horses would live to be like 150 years old at the max and 100 years on average. -[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]] | ||
:::: I suppose attacking it from the length of fertility cycle is more productive. I'm keeping halflings the way they are, though. I MADE A CHART. | :::: I suppose attacking it from the length of fertility cycle is more productive. I'm keeping halflings the way they are, though. I MADE A CHART. | ||
| + | : I love you, Wilson, but any effort to relate this to the real world is bug fucking crazy. If we were going that route, clearly: | ||
| + | :# Dwarves are ~45% stone at a cellular, and inorganic stone cells can't reproduce via division | ||
| + | :# Most elf cells are homosexual, and thus they protest division caused by decidedly un-fairy heterosexual sex | ||
| + | : For the record, I also protest any effort to explain demi-human population control using gestational periods. All this shit be crazy. Except the part where halflings are like dogs and have litter's of children... That's awesome --[[User:Msallen|Msallen]] | ||
Revision as of 00:11, 27 November 2011
Halfling Offspring Table
1-4: Twins!
5: Only Child
6: +1 Child and Reroll on Table 2
Table 2
1-3: +1 Child and stop rolling.
4-5: +1 Child and Roll Again.
6: +2 Children and Stop Rolling.
Math (note that above table doesn't consider miscarriage):
0: 0.0 1: 16.6666666666667 2: 75.0 3: 5.55555555555556 4: 1.85185185185185 5: 0.617283950617284 6: 0.205761316872428 7: 0.0685871056241426 8: 0.022862368541381 9: 0.00762078951379357 10: 0.00127013158563227 n: (n - 1)/6 for n > 3
I want it to be noted that those gestation periods are pretty absurd. Elves and Dwarves aren't any larger than humans, and if cell division were actually that slow for those species, the individuals in them would never heal from a wound before they died from it. I mean, obviously magic can explain it all away, but if there's no good reason for it, why complicate? -Slitherrr
- [1] -Slitherrr
- Dwarves are dense and have more cells. Elves actually do heal slower because they have a lower constitution. Also, why are there not 11 million dwarves if they live to be 400 and pop out one per year like humans?
- 1) Dwarves would have to weigh correspondingly more. Like, four times as much as a human. Do infant Dwarves weigh 40-50 lbs? 2) Five times as slow? Two points of Con is more like, 4/5ths as slow. That is an enormous difference. And it does nothing to explain Dwarves, who heal 20% faster (on average). 3) Implantation/estrous/fertilization happen less often, social pressures keep populations in line, etc etc. Gestation periods, though, just don't correspond to lifespans. If they did, horses would live to be like 150 years old at the max and 100 years on average. -Slitherrr
- I suppose attacking it from the length of fertility cycle is more productive. I'm keeping halflings the way they are, though. I MADE A CHART.
- 1) Dwarves would have to weigh correspondingly more. Like, four times as much as a human. Do infant Dwarves weigh 40-50 lbs? 2) Five times as slow? Two points of Con is more like, 4/5ths as slow. That is an enormous difference. And it does nothing to explain Dwarves, who heal 20% faster (on average). 3) Implantation/estrous/fertilization happen less often, social pressures keep populations in line, etc etc. Gestation periods, though, just don't correspond to lifespans. If they did, horses would live to be like 150 years old at the max and 100 years on average. -Slitherrr
- Dwarves are dense and have more cells. Elves actually do heal slower because they have a lower constitution. Also, why are there not 11 million dwarves if they live to be 400 and pop out one per year like humans?
- I love you, Wilson, but any effort to relate this to the real world is bug fucking crazy. If we were going that route, clearly:
- Dwarves are ~45% stone at a cellular, and inorganic stone cells can't reproduce via division
- Most elf cells are homosexual, and thus they protest division caused by decidedly un-fairy heterosexual sex
- For the record, I also protest any effort to explain demi-human population control using gestational periods. All this shit be crazy. Except the part where halflings are like dogs and have litter's of children... That's awesome --Msallen
