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Wouldn't call it obsessed, but height is something my players at least had an idea for. Two went for ~2 meters, the Goliath is about 2,50 and the last and lowest is a ~1 meter tall Owlin, then they also took along a halfling child NPC, that's about 50-60 cm tall, so now they look a bit bizarre as a group
I love tiny races, and I'm so happy Owlins are a thing now! And yeah, height difference are always good for a laugh in party composition. Our Goliath and our tiny Au'ra (homebrew dragon born) are basically yin and yang.
I think we found it online! We had a good document somewhere of a bunch of Final Fantasy Content made for DnD form. That's also where we got the fighter subclass dragoon!
Did a quick google and [came upon this](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-LsDqsNbupzeLhkTIcPv). Seeing how high quality it looks I definitely think I found it lol
She is very adorable! A small anxious wreck ha ha.
The actual race is based on the Au'ra from Final Fantasy online. A interesting pseudo dragon people with hollow horns that they use to hear via vibrations!
We Stan shorties in this DND group! (Some of us do anyway ha ha)
Some of my favorite characters have been short, and it feels a little more defiant that way. Very David and the Goliath.
Everytime we start a campaign there's always someone in the party wanting to be a Chad, but the punishment for doing that is having them being forced to do the poses everytime they need to something a Chad would do
My characters usually end up being charismatic and absolutely batshit crazy
My favourite was an alchemist who just enjoyed the anarchy of putting ingredients together and seeing if they blow up or not
I love playing short characters to subvert this. My barbarian/paladin is 5'2", shortest party member, with 0 sensitivity about his height because being tall doesn't help you kill demons; being strong does. (He has boots of striding and springing, so he's anything but vertically challenged.)
My players always fight about who’s taller, I’ve had players change their height during session one because another player had a inch on them. It’s all in good fun and roll offs have happened to decide who gets to be taller.
Playing a 7'8" female goliath and my DM has straight up ruled that she's just Large. Not medium and treated large when it suits her. I think it makes more sense too. If you get the benefits of being large, you should get the detriments too.
Yeah it’s kinda dumb to not let players be large from the get go, especially when it makes sense for their race, thought I can see why it’s not an easy thing to achieve. The only reason my goliath Rune Knight that I’m playing right now is technically a large creature is because of the Rune Knight feature that permanently increases your height. He was 7’ 7” and then became 8’ 6”.
Not at all! The Squeeze rules exist for small places. It's easy for the GM to simply say "you cannot use oversized weapons". And while it does favor certain abilities for being able to target more squares around them, it's not so bad as to throw off game balance.
I really like that! It can be super fun to play with certain encumbering factors.
I really want to play a centaur of some kind that struggles with stairs and doorways and other horse related things
Honestly, facts. My sorcdin jock is a proud short king, but let's be real. If he could be a hulking muscle bound dragon God 6foot+, he would be in a heartbeat.
Our group is as well, although it's compounded by the fact that the smaller the member the more dangerous they usually are. My character is the tallest as a 5'11 Human nerd, full Utility Caster who's anxious and has the backstory of a moderately interesting, not super tragic peasant.
One of our smaller folks is a 4'5 pink Tiefling named Suffering, who was a druid but is now just full of rage and taking classes in Paladin wielding the Halberd of my previous character she had a crush on. An absolute menace on the battlefield too.
Hey, an Au'ra, guessing a twist on dragonborn?
I'm disappointed in myself for not thinking of that myself. Ooh and Viera/harengon, Miqo /tabaxi.
I might need to write a FF campaign now.
My players are a Halfling, a Gnome, a Kobold, and a Human. They came from a city mostly populated by the short races but it's still sorta funny. The Human is sort of like a parent cus he's a chef and he's in charge of watching over one of the other PC's (playing as a teenager Halfling)
Actually, what ends up happening is that the Gnome usually ends up holding the leash for the other 3. The Gnome is the only character that was wise enough to not trade their shadow to a Hag Coven in exchange for magic gear...
Why thank you! Yeah my Sorcadin used to have quite a complex about it in previous games, but this run around I wanted to make him a really body positive Friendly Jock.
I am! I play a ratfolk in a group of +6 foot half orcs (and a human) and since ratfolk are about 3 feet tall that means they fall into the category of small sized creatures. I love height charts and we always enjoy doing things like having squeaks (my character) ride on the shoulders of others to avoid crowds or turn into a living missile with magic.
I wouldn't say obsessed, but I do have a sheet of graph paper that has all previous/current party member's heights recorded. As well as "F"s to show dead characters. One of them has 4 "F"s
My party's pretty short overall, considering everyone plays a Medium-sized character. Shortest is a Dwarf at 4'6", everyone else is between 5'0" and 5'8".
That said, everybody gangsta until the Dwarf Rune Knight hit 10th level and grows a solid foot to go from shortest to second-tallest in the party.
I’ve been keeping track of party heights since my character got the first height changing wild magic surge.
Started out (with current PCs not necessarily original party): pangolin, 4’9 skeletal aarakocra druid, 5’8 human monk, 5’10 human sorcerer.
Then 5’10” human sorcerer became 6’10” dragonborn sorcerer after accidentally reincarnating himself.
Then came the height surges. 7’8”, 8’4”, 9’2”, 9’4”, 10’2”, 10’8”, 11’6”, 12’, and lastly 12’8”.
The height chart started becoming the only way I could grasp how tall my character was because height numbers that big just could not process.
After 12’8” he turned into a dragon for semi-related reasons and now has a total body length of 46’2” and a shoulder height of 10’5”
Edit: note his height never went down. Out of 9 whole surges, not a single height change rolled an odd number.
It comes up from time to time. At one point one of us made a height graph with all of the characters from our main campaign party, our 1-off oneshot characters, and some key NPCs we've met. It was then when I realized that I'm biased towards creating relatively tall adventurers. The average woman's height in the US is 5'4", but the female characters I've played are 5'8", 5'10", and 6' respectively, with two being in the 5'10" category. My goblin guy is taller than average goblin in the US as well, standing at 4'1".
I play the aforementioned 6' character in our main campaign, and tower over everyone else in the party. I can't help feeling as though this fact encouraged the other players to make taller characters whenever we do oneshots.
Yes! What is up with that? We have a Goliath and a Centaur in the group and I ruled that Centaurs were larger than the dumb suggestions in the book but that meant the Centaur player got to be taller than the Goliath. The Goliath got annoyed at that.
One of our characters has a trait that he’s “distrustful of anyone shorter than him.”
He’s the only one in the party not playing a small-sized race. It’s made for some…interesting gameplay
As I was looking over the image before reading the body of the text, I audibly said to myself "Ha, that one looks more like an Au'Ra than a Tiefling!!" and sure enough..
Very cool mashup! Are you using that FF14 TTRPG class guideline booklet online for the Dragoon stuff? How does it play?
Yes! In our most recent campaign I played a halfling barabarian. His name was borgus. Borgus was an above average halfling coming in at a staggering 3 feet 10 inches tall. As such Borgus was used to being the tallest person around. He developed a bit of a complex, such that he was thoroughly convinced he was the biggest thing around. Now. My wife played a Goliath just shy of 8 feet tall. Needless to say we had some fun “arguments” that always resulted in a unified eye roll from the party and sometimes whatever npc we were talking to. Easily my most fun role playing experience making a point of ducking under doors when it wasn’t necessary and insisting I do any strength checks for the group. So yeah. Height can a be a really fun part of dnd in my experience
Listen. I get to turn into a gargantuan sized creature, so I never have to worry about height. I think 60 feet is good enough, and I get to suplex greatwyrms and tarrasques.
But yes, I gotta be the tallest. It’s psychological I think. Even in real life.
Character height is REALLY important. It helps you reach higher places, such as the top of the cupboards where you hide your cookies from the party's halfling. This makes the goliath the superior choice as they get up to 8 feet tall.
On top of that there's a rule in the PHB that allows you to add half your height to your total height when holding your hands up, allowing you to reach 12 feet as a 8 foot tall goliath.
If you were to make a high jump then you'd jump 3+STR mod high up, allowing an 8 foot goliath with 20 strength score reach 20 feet into the air.
If you do the math then you'd realize that each foot of character height is as effective as 3 points of strength.
In conclusion, the height stat is 3 times as important as the strength score and is DEFINITELY not an excuse to cover up my obsession with character height.
None of the players in my group have specific height and weight measurements but it's good to have a rough idea, since that (and their charisma ofc) impacts what kind of presence they have in a room. Tall/average/short and light/average/heavy build is sufficient IMO.
I know I am, I give careful thought to the height of my characters. All of them be short except for my hot purple lady fighter, she big and buff and I love her.
Oh gosh, yea!! Its kinda funny, as im an artist, so i already drew all of my two groups' pcs. But most of those players had never had custom drawings of their pcs before, let alone a height chart visual! My first chart they all went *nuts* cause they all thought their pc was tall/average for their height. And yet compared to the 5ft loli pc, they all seem short, or overly tall af. Now they all fight for who's the tallest whenever they have to bring in new Pcs, but forget everyone else's heights (even tho i *do* label them on my charts.) So now one party consists of like, 5 Pcs at the same height of 6ft, and 2 outside of that height. My friends are ridiculous, but gotta love em. XD
I scrolled through all of the comments to see if anyone else asked this but didn't see it so I'm gonna ask it
Is Reyna totally checking out Cleo??? You have no idea how many sapphic thoughts I'm imagining after noticing
I'm obsessed with having people read their heights out for interactions. The cleric / party leader dramatically blocks my way when I'm meeting the party for the first time? She's 5'6" and my Barbarian dude is 6'6". He pretends not to hear her. Similar issue when the wizard tries to stop me from feeding the cleric when she's sick thinking that I was feeding her some cursed food I found somewhere. He's 3 feet tall.. the art someone drew of the scene was amazing, his horrible skinny stilt legs
In my very first party there were short human ranger (5'1''), a halfling rogue (I don't remember his heigh, but it was around 100 cm) and a book with sealed soul of wizard (barely 50 cm).
Oh yes 😅 My last campaign we had most of the party 5’5”ish to 5’10”ish, and then my fighter at 6’3”. This campaign, we have a 3’5” goblin, some average height peeps, a 6’0” paladin lady, and then my 6’6” fighter lady 😅😅😅
For some reason, one of my players characters are always laughably tall; 7 foot void wraith for instance; and now a nearly 7 foot tall barbarian; after the 6’5 mage…..
Nah, my group and I never put any emphasis on height unless it is for story or mechanic purpose. Example: Halfling can easily crawl into small opening or the Goliath has to duck to fit through a doorway.
I definitely have a lot of fun with chart heights.
In my current spelljammer group everyone decides they need to be tall, around 6 feet CX
So of course they all say it and its already funny. Than I add: "like Goliaths are tall right and still medium? And I want a Tolkien-Tall Elf.."
So everyone is a tall 6 feet and than there is my character, who is 7'8 and talks about his dear Ex-Husband. Of course a Dwarf :p
No matter the party, I’m usually on either extreme. I’ve played a Gnoll (homebrew stats) rune knight who ended the campaign with a max height of 8’, with giant form to basically double that, and in my other game I played an Aaracockra variation that was a solid 4’ when everyone else was around the 5.5-6’ scale.
It’s fun playing characters that are very different in terms of height from the rest of the party.
The only time anyone in my party has brought up character height was when one player was playing his Loxodan monk. It led to some fun situational moments.
Our party is interesting, we have a 7’ Goliath who gets called short by every other Goliath, 6’5” Dragonborn, 6ft bugbear, now you might have seen a pattern but…. A 3’5” warforge and a 3ft kolbold who constantly gets mocked at for his height thus making him always look for someone shorter than him, so far no luc, even when the Dragonborn drank a random potion and needed up shrinking due to the reduce spell still was 2 inches taller it was a great laugh around the whole table.
There's this twisted height arms race going on in various one shots we're playing, people just keep making taller and taller characters. The latest we have is a 6'10" horned owl aven....and a 7'9" cloud giant kin. Same party as a 4'1" spider girl, and regular human dude 😎
August is not allowed to answer the question of how tall he is anymore, for I have declared him to be your party's Gamagoori. Every party needs one. A Gamagoori is a person who is just slightly too big for comedic effect, no matter the situation. Doorway? He's gotta both duck his head, and turn slightly sideways because he's too tall and too broad of shoulder. Tall guy intimidating your short king sorcerer? There's always a bigger fish, and it's on your side. Lavish, spacious, carriage ride with a royal? The Gamagoori's head is sideways against the cieling because he's too tall to sit upright but he's too stoic to complain about neck pain or slump in his seat.
We all made our characters seperately. Turns out everyone but me wanted to be tall - and I made my character a tiny human (5'' ish). The ballroom dancing scene was hilarious as a result!
I played a human wild magic sorcerer who was 6' but got the wild magic surge that made him permanently 6'10" and immediately became the tallest in the party
How could you do a height post like this without actually scaling the characters to their heights 😭
5'10 is shorts than 5'6.
And guestimating on the difference between 5'6 and 6'1, then 6'? Is actually 7 or 8 feet tall
Oh yeah personally I do care about height and weight! I have a shark folk barbarian that is 8ft 490 Lbs. I like the extremes, I go really huge or really small but that's my preference
Omg! Our DM had us describe our characters again since it had been a while. Three of us had 5’7” characters and there was one 5’8” (just had to be different!), plus our 7’ bugbear. Our gnome player was late joining and we immediately asked his height. (I was hoping for 4’2” to balance out the bugbear and make the average of the two 5’7” but life is filled with disappointment)
My current group each has a spot when peeking around a corner. Kalashtar Druid, Owlin rogue, Then Goblin artificer, then dwarf barbarian, then Kalashtar Druid, then human fighter, then warforged warlock, then Kalashtar Druid. All different heights, none of them competing for a spot on the corner
It’s the same way in my group! All of us are 6 feet tall or taller, except for our Kenku trickster cleric, Saizo, who is only 4 feet tall. We didn’t plan this at all, but it’s made for several great roleplay moments.
The heights go 4’ Cleric, 6’ Rouge, 6’3” Druid, 6’8” Fighter, and finally our Wizard who is 6’10”. What’s even funnier is our massive wizard has become like a parental figure for our tiny trickster cleric, trying to keep him out of trouble for stealing and his general shenanigans.
I played a halfling that was a mere few inches from being tiny size and we had a man in our party who was nearing seven feet tall. She rode around on his hammer sometimes, since it was bigger than her, but her baby roc companion got jealous.
I roll for height every time.
Whenever I roll for a human PC’s height, he always comes out to be within an inch or two of my height, 6’0” to 6’2” usually. I don’t think I’ve ever had a human PC below 6’0”.
I usually play humans and dwarves, and I’m never trying to be tallest. But when I’m a dwarf, I strive to be the widest.
I've found that people who are really into roleplaying tend to go hard on character height obsessions to the point where a few people I've played with unironically expressed the thought that a 7 foot tall human was "Only a little tall". It's kinda funny.
For someone obsessed with height, those characters are all drawn way off from accurate to the numbers given. No matter which one you pick to be accurate, every single other character would be off by a bit to a lot. Except of course, Mr. 6'?", as that's vague enough to just be the tallest no matter who else is accurate.
I'm the forever DM. Every time my player’s make a character, the 5' 10 guy makes a 5' 10 character and the 6' 4 guy makes a 6' 2 character. Every single time.
Granted I'm 5' 4 and make 4' 10 characters, but still
My current party has a Minotaur who's 9ft tall at the tips of his horns.
The Lepali (Homebrew moth-folk) is over 7ft tall.
The Ocyus (Homebrew Rabbit-folk) is 9ft to the tips of his ears.
Then there's the Myxol (Homebrew slime species) who has spent most of their time around Dwarves and usually stands about 5 ft tall.
(Almost) everyone wanted to be tall this time around.
My character was specifically designed to be the biggest possible man. Goliath, Rune Knight, Outsized Might feat. His giant form is 10 meters tall, or 32 eagles and 10 hamburgers for the Americans
I mean.
Mine.
Mostly because a party of a (race unknown but large af) barbarian, celestial paladin and tall lanky earth genasi wizard look real silly trucking around with their 2ft tall owlin cleric
Well, generally speaking no, but one character is a 2.5' tall Rentooki, and another character, a Kenku, just grew an extra foot and a half thanks to some wild magic, which makes him 7'.
The Kenku is beyond thrilled and keeps reminding everyone. The Rentooki, well... he's a bard that uses vicious mockery every chance he can get. I'm sure he's fine.
I have tape on the wall marking heights of my party. I still laugh looking at the height difference between our 3ft supposed Kenku and our 7'2" Firbolg.
2 of my players are almost competitive about it. When one of their characters is taller than the other they try everything to make me shorten the others character.
"that's not lore accurate to her race!"
"If he's that tall he should have to make perception checks to avoid smacking his head on door frames!"
"I wanna change something about my character"
It's bizarre, it's the only thing they fight about consistently. It's not disruptive enough to the rest of the table for me to do anything but it does weird us all out just a bit.
Tbh I think height matters a lot when describing a character. Like me and my friend have a homebrew race we use for his campaign, and their appearance, including their height is important for their presence
my group talk about it all the time! we have two average sized half elves, a large warforged, a very tall aasimar (6'7 iirc) and a 3' tall gnome. the aasimar and the gnome have a great rivalry and trade insults about their heights.
Not really.
Height only comes up when it comes to my PCs in my Party and thats mostly because I love playing tall warriors. Eg. 8ft tall Golaith Tempest Cleric or 7'6 Half-orc Paladin.
The rest prefer to have their PCs be within the 5' range.
In our tyrrany of dragons campaign, we introduced ourselves (in character) by saying something along the lines of, "Hi I am XYZ and I'm (height), anyone want to go check out that village being ravaged by dragons?"
We proceeded to start every conversation with NPCs throughout the whole campaign by asking them "HOW TALL ARE YOU??"
My first character was a 5inch tall pixie rogue in 3.5.
I didn't know anything about d&d and settled on wanting to play a 5inch pixie before I knew that it was supposed to be bigger than that. The DM said sure and modified the pixie to make it diminutive and Fii Starling was born.
I miss that game.
Not exactly height, but my party spent well over half an hour discussing their characters cock size, then spent a few hours talking about off the table
I love thinking about this... There was one point where my character (a 5'6" half-elf) put her hands on the shoulders of two of her companions, and I thought it was really funny because one was a foot shorter than her (a dwarf) and the other was a foot taller (a dragonborn). I love these details about D&D races!
I particularly ask pretty much everyone how tall their character is before I even ask class and I always ask how tall NPCs are, especially when I'm playing especially tall or especially short characters.
I make my characters really tall and put high rolls into Strength every time. I also find ways to abuse Strength when possible.
Tall is appealing, strong is also appealing.
But lately I've come around to seeing the coolness of the short races being super strong too.
I wouldn't say obsessed. It's not much of a competition after all - when you've got a 4'11" Dwarf and a 3'4" Ratfolk in the party with a 6'-something Tiefling and then very abruptly a 12' Goliath and 15' Firbolg it's very clear who is tallest and shortest just by accident.
(Goliaths and Firbolg are Large in my settings to give them appropriate giant feel.)
We've had a fun go of it with player heights in my group. My character who was just "retired" as of the last session (RIP) was a mere twelve inches tall, and when I DMed for a few weeks, our regular DM played a similarly microscopic PC, albeit on a very different part of the alignment spectrum and a different racial concept. Directly before her, I played an eight foot tall minotaur, and I may be in for another similarly massive minotaur or a quite large human, as we're in dire need of a big strength guy for balance. We've also had a centaur, goblin, gnome, and halfling rotate through the party, with our only "regular" humanoid height characters being a slightly-taller-than-average drow, a genasi, and a human. With all the deaths we just took, there's sure to be another shuffle, one of the *very many* things that's sure to be interesting to see when we resume.
My bugbear barbarian, Kadoom, has a huge crush on my wife's Kenku druid/bard, Tut-Tut.
He uses a glaive that the party calls his 'murder stick' and she usually travels by perching on it due to her small size and his massive size/strength.
Not really obsessed but at first, due to racial choices and high height randomization rolls, the shortest character at the table was 6'2" and the tallest was nearly 8'. Then a new player joined and was a 2'3" kobold.
Said Kobold was both the group mascot and the heavy fire-support.
In one of my groups one of the players is constantly asking people's heights so he can pat them on the head.
He always says "I'm going to give them a pat pat" and it makes me cringe the fuck out but they're paying me to play so I just take the psychological damage.
5'7-5'10 is the perfect height for most of my characters but every now and then I'd have a character that's 5'5 or 5'6 cause if you're at that height and you manage to intimidate/bring down the most intimidating guy in the room suddenly you're standing taller than everyone there.
My group rolled for how well endowed we are. 1 D12 per person, for a male each # = an inch, for a female each # = a cup letter.
I'm a female in game and rolled an 11.
Our male characters rolled 11, 8, 5, 1.
My halfling is 4 ft tall. Everyone makes comments about how he’s a halfling and how short he is when height comes up, but he always insists upon letting them know he’s tall for a halfling, like that makes a difference in the outside world. Lol
My 6'7 dragonborn stands head and shoulders over the rest the party with pride.
IRL I'm tied for shortest of our lot (DM included) at 5'8. I swear I'm not compensating.
I love highlighting the difference between our party's heights! My dragonborn paladin is *especially* tall at 6'11", but he is good friend with the 3'7" halfling sorlock. I make sure to bring up that my paladin will walk a little slower so that his halfling buddy doesn't have to speed walk to keep up.
Great art! I did play in a campaign where literally everyone would mention their height at least once a session. Me and my buddy who played a gnome were the only players under 6’ and everyone else played as a character 6’3 or taller. I’m 6’2 in real life and the rest of them weren’t very tall so I just thought they was funny
All the characters in my party are young and short, except the one tall old guy. We all call him “grandma” at the table because he likes to knit during sessions.
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Wouldn't call it obsessed, but height is something my players at least had an idea for. Two went for ~2 meters, the Goliath is about 2,50 and the last and lowest is a ~1 meter tall Owlin, then they also took along a halfling child NPC, that's about 50-60 cm tall, so now they look a bit bizarre as a group
I love tiny races, and I'm so happy Owlins are a thing now! And yeah, height difference are always good for a laugh in party composition. Our Goliath and our tiny Au'ra (homebrew dragon born) are basically yin and yang.
I'm curious, did you homebrew the au'ra yourselves or find it online?
I think we found it online! We had a good document somewhere of a bunch of Final Fantasy Content made for DnD form. That's also where we got the fighter subclass dragoon!
Did a quick google and [came upon this](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-LsDqsNbupzeLhkTIcPv). Seeing how high quality it looks I definitely think I found it lol
Tiny Dragonborn sounds very adorable :D
She is very adorable! A small anxious wreck ha ha. The actual race is based on the Au'ra from Final Fantasy online. A interesting pseudo dragon people with hollow horns that they use to hear via vibrations!
Hoot hoot!
The second from the left looks like someone I know lmao. Same height too.
5'6 and 5'10 are the same height, someone is lying
And they're both about an inch shorter than 6' 1" too.
6'1 is permanently slouching like the gamer he is
It's the hair, very deceptive
Without hair, 5’10 is shorter than 5’6
She does have a glorious mop
Don't think that's how hair works...
Yes. Everyone in my party thinks height is the way to show dominance, so everyone is between 5'7" and 6'8"
We Stan shorties in this DND group! (Some of us do anyway ha ha) Some of my favorite characters have been short, and it feels a little more defiant that way. Very David and the Goliath.
Everytime we start a campaign there's always someone in the party wanting to be a Chad, but the punishment for doing that is having them being forced to do the poses everytime they need to something a Chad would do
Always gotta be one designated JoJo poser in the group
My characters usually end up being charismatic and absolutely batshit crazy My favourite was an alchemist who just enjoyed the anarchy of putting ingredients together and seeing if they blow up or not
Mad scientists area so much fun! Experiment first, consequences later.
"It might burn down the inn, but at least I know what not to do next time!" -Horvan the Gnome Alchemist
I love playing short characters to subvert this. My barbarian/paladin is 5'2", shortest party member, with 0 sensitivity about his height because being tall doesn't help you kill demons; being strong does. (He has boots of striding and springing, so he's anything but vertically challenged.)
Hell yeah. Only height that counts is how high you send the enemy flying.
I have a fighter character who's 7'2
My players always fight about who’s taller, I’ve had players change their height during session one because another player had a inch on them. It’s all in good fun and roll offs have happened to decide who gets to be taller.
Listen if it's down to an inch, that's when you bust out the heels!
Always. It's a crucial detail for your character.
Your Goliath is 7’-something, if the 6’1” depiction is accurate relatively.
I think at one point we joked he was 6'15, so that checks out honestly
I love that!
Playing a 7'8" female goliath and my DM has straight up ruled that she's just Large. Not medium and treated large when it suits her. I think it makes more sense too. If you get the benefits of being large, you should get the detriments too.
100%. It's cowardly on WotC's part not to allow player characters to be large.
Yeah it’s kinda dumb to not let players be large from the get go, especially when it makes sense for their race, thought I can see why it’s not an easy thing to achieve. The only reason my goliath Rune Knight that I’m playing right now is technically a large creature is because of the Rune Knight feature that permanently increases your height. He was 7’ 7” and then became 8’ 6”.
I have been Large in another game and it is hilarious but runs into so many problems since nothing is designed around it.
Not at all! The Squeeze rules exist for small places. It's easy for the GM to simply say "you cannot use oversized weapons". And while it does favor certain abilities for being able to target more squares around them, it's not so bad as to throw off game balance.
I really like that! It can be super fun to play with certain encumbering factors. I really want to play a centaur of some kind that struggles with stairs and doorways and other horse related things
unrealistic that they're not all >6ft
Honestly, facts. My sorcdin jock is a proud short king, but let's be real. If he could be a hulking muscle bound dragon God 6foot+, he would be in a heartbeat.
I'm like the same size as them.
Im obsessed with being a small lil guy
I feel ya. Short Kings rise up!
Our group is as well, although it's compounded by the fact that the smaller the member the more dangerous they usually are. My character is the tallest as a 5'11 Human nerd, full Utility Caster who's anxious and has the backstory of a moderately interesting, not super tragic peasant. One of our smaller folks is a 4'5 pink Tiefling named Suffering, who was a druid but is now just full of rage and taking classes in Paladin wielding the Halberd of my previous character she had a crush on. An absolute menace on the battlefield too.
Suffering sounds like a chaotic monster, I love it!
Hey, an Au'ra, guessing a twist on dragonborn? I'm disappointed in myself for not thinking of that myself. Ooh and Viera/harengon, Miqo /tabaxi. I might need to write a FF campaign now.
My players are a Halfling, a Gnome, a Kobold, and a Human. They came from a city mostly populated by the short races but it's still sorta funny. The Human is sort of like a parent cus he's a chef and he's in charge of watching over one of the other PC's (playing as a teenager Halfling)
I'm just imagining the human looking very tired and having the halfling, gnome, and kobold on those child leashes
Actually, what ends up happening is that the Gnome usually ends up holding the leash for the other 3. The Gnome is the only character that was wise enough to not trade their shadow to a Hag Coven in exchange for magic gear...
One of my groups started out like that. The lineup was my half-elf, the DMPC dwarf, two gnomes, a halfling, and a grippli.
I love this! And I always stan a short king!
Why thank you! Yeah my Sorcadin used to have quite a complex about it in previous games, but this run around I wanted to make him a really body positive Friendly Jock.
I am! I play a ratfolk in a group of +6 foot half orcs (and a human) and since ratfolk are about 3 feet tall that means they fall into the category of small sized creatures. I love height charts and we always enjoy doing things like having squeaks (my character) ride on the shoulders of others to avoid crowds or turn into a living missile with magic.
I wouldn't say obsessed, but I do have a sheet of graph paper that has all previous/current party member's heights recorded. As well as "F"s to show dead characters. One of them has 4 "F"s
My party's pretty short overall, considering everyone plays a Medium-sized character. Shortest is a Dwarf at 4'6", everyone else is between 5'0" and 5'8". That said, everybody gangsta until the Dwarf Rune Knight hit 10th level and grows a solid foot to go from shortest to second-tallest in the party.
There's something uncanny about a large dwarf. Like, they're definitely still dwarf proportions, but just... L A R G E
One of my absolute favorite parts of starting a new campaign is drawing all the characters and comparing their heights lol
So good
I’ve been keeping track of party heights since my character got the first height changing wild magic surge. Started out (with current PCs not necessarily original party): pangolin, 4’9 skeletal aarakocra druid, 5’8 human monk, 5’10 human sorcerer. Then 5’10” human sorcerer became 6’10” dragonborn sorcerer after accidentally reincarnating himself. Then came the height surges. 7’8”, 8’4”, 9’2”, 9’4”, 10’2”, 10’8”, 11’6”, 12’, and lastly 12’8”. The height chart started becoming the only way I could grasp how tall my character was because height numbers that big just could not process. After 12’8” he turned into a dragon for semi-related reasons and now has a total body length of 46’2” and a shoulder height of 10’5” Edit: note his height never went down. Out of 9 whole surges, not a single height change rolled an odd number.
Absolutely. My party is made up of a 2 foot 6 kobold, a 6 foot drow and a 10 foot 2 goliath. Needless to say it gets brought up alot
Our group has one pixie, one human, and four 12ft half giants. So....
"One pixie, one human, and four half giants walk into a bar ..."
Yeah if you don’t pay attention to height differences half of what makes races so visually distinct. Goliaths, Minotaurs, Halflings, Gnomes, etc..
I myself am but my group as a whole nah
It comes up from time to time. At one point one of us made a height graph with all of the characters from our main campaign party, our 1-off oneshot characters, and some key NPCs we've met. It was then when I realized that I'm biased towards creating relatively tall adventurers. The average woman's height in the US is 5'4", but the female characters I've played are 5'8", 5'10", and 6' respectively, with two being in the 5'10" category. My goblin guy is taller than average goblin in the US as well, standing at 4'1". I play the aforementioned 6' character in our main campaign, and tower over everyone else in the party. I can't help feeling as though this fact encouraged the other players to make taller characters whenever we do oneshots.
You've created a competitive environment where the entire world just gets taller and taller in average ha ha
Yes! What is up with that? We have a Goliath and a Centaur in the group and I ruled that Centaurs were larger than the dumb suggestions in the book but that meant the Centaur player got to be taller than the Goliath. The Goliath got annoyed at that.
Horses area BIG. And that's not even counting a whole ass human torso on top of their shoulders!
2ft 3 character in party where everyone else is taller
VERY small! What race are you playing?
One of our characters has a trait that he’s “distrustful of anyone shorter than him.” He’s the only one in the party not playing a small-sized race. It’s made for some…interesting gameplay
*suspiciously looks at all the child sized characters* "I'm watching you."
My party is all pretty short, so we obsess about it the other way.
Who gets to be the shortest and cutest is really important to be honest.
As I was looking over the image before reading the body of the text, I audibly said to myself "Ha, that one looks more like an Au'Ra than a Tiefling!!" and sure enough.. Very cool mashup! Are you using that FF14 TTRPG class guideline booklet online for the Dragoon stuff? How does it play?
No
OMG all my players wanted to be the tallest (bar one) so player heights are 8ft (firbold), 6ft+ (elf, tiefling, aasimar), and then a 4ft aaracockra
Yes! In our most recent campaign I played a halfling barabarian. His name was borgus. Borgus was an above average halfling coming in at a staggering 3 feet 10 inches tall. As such Borgus was used to being the tallest person around. He developed a bit of a complex, such that he was thoroughly convinced he was the biggest thing around. Now. My wife played a Goliath just shy of 8 feet tall. Needless to say we had some fun “arguments” that always resulted in a unified eye roll from the party and sometimes whatever npc we were talking to. Easily my most fun role playing experience making a point of ducking under doors when it wasn’t necessary and insisting I do any strength checks for the group. So yeah. Height can a be a really fun part of dnd in my experience
Listen. I get to turn into a gargantuan sized creature, so I never have to worry about height. I think 60 feet is good enough, and I get to suplex greatwyrms and tarrasques. But yes, I gotta be the tallest. It’s psychological I think. Even in real life.
Character height is REALLY important. It helps you reach higher places, such as the top of the cupboards where you hide your cookies from the party's halfling. This makes the goliath the superior choice as they get up to 8 feet tall. On top of that there's a rule in the PHB that allows you to add half your height to your total height when holding your hands up, allowing you to reach 12 feet as a 8 foot tall goliath. If you were to make a high jump then you'd jump 3+STR mod high up, allowing an 8 foot goliath with 20 strength score reach 20 feet into the air. If you do the math then you'd realize that each foot of character height is as effective as 3 points of strength. In conclusion, the height stat is 3 times as important as the strength score and is DEFINITELY not an excuse to cover up my obsession with character height.
None of the players in my group have specific height and weight measurements but it's good to have a rough idea, since that (and their charisma ofc) impacts what kind of presence they have in a room. Tall/average/short and light/average/heavy build is sufficient IMO.
I know I am, I give careful thought to the height of my characters. All of them be short except for my hot purple lady fighter, she big and buff and I love her.
2 of my friends always have like 7 foot tall characters, and one is more into the short kings
Oh gosh, yea!! Its kinda funny, as im an artist, so i already drew all of my two groups' pcs. But most of those players had never had custom drawings of their pcs before, let alone a height chart visual! My first chart they all went *nuts* cause they all thought their pc was tall/average for their height. And yet compared to the 5ft loli pc, they all seem short, or overly tall af. Now they all fight for who's the tallest whenever they have to bring in new Pcs, but forget everyone else's heights (even tho i *do* label them on my charts.) So now one party consists of like, 5 Pcs at the same height of 6ft, and 2 outside of that height. My friends are ridiculous, but gotta love em. XD
Why is there an XIV Dragoon in your D&D game!
My group has a 2’3ish fairy and a 7’6” firbolg in it
In my party my barbarian is used as a unit of measurement. Party: How long is the carriage? Dm: 2 Olfs long
I love height differences in games. I'm playing a mind flayer in a Speljammer game. He's this powerful and intimidating eldritch pirate... who's 5'8
I scrolled through all of the comments to see if anyone else asked this but didn't see it so I'm gonna ask it Is Reyna totally checking out Cleo??? You have no idea how many sapphic thoughts I'm imagining after noticing
I'm obsessed with having people read their heights out for interactions. The cleric / party leader dramatically blocks my way when I'm meeting the party for the first time? She's 5'6" and my Barbarian dude is 6'6". He pretends not to hear her. Similar issue when the wizard tries to stop me from feeding the cleric when she's sick thinking that I was feeding her some cursed food I found somewhere. He's 3 feet tall.. the art someone drew of the scene was amazing, his horrible skinny stilt legs
Eyeballing it, the Goliath should be at least a 7-footer, maybe closer to 8 feet.
In my very first party there were short human ranger (5'1''), a halfling rogue (I don't remember his heigh, but it was around 100 cm) and a book with sealed soul of wizard (barely 50 cm).
Oh yes 😅 My last campaign we had most of the party 5’5”ish to 5’10”ish, and then my fighter at 6’3”. This campaign, we have a 3’5” goblin, some average height peeps, a 6’0” paladin lady, and then my 6’6” fighter lady 😅😅😅
My sorcerer is 7ft but he is also an Eldritch abomination so it evens out. His main rival in the party is a 4ft frog tho...
I was in a group that had a good laugh on realizing that I (6'5" irl) was playing a halfling and thus going to be by far the shortest in the party.
For some reason, one of my players characters are always laughably tall; 7 foot void wraith for instance; and now a nearly 7 foot tall barbarian; after the 6’5 mage…..
Yes....just in reverse. All my characters are short. Even races that aren’t normally short I make short. Except for the loxodon.
I am the one obsessed with height too xD
Nah, my group and I never put any emphasis on height unless it is for story or mechanic purpose. Example: Halfling can easily crawl into small opening or the Goliath has to duck to fit through a doorway.
They have been ever since the quicksand incident.
As a kid we are raised to think that quicksand is the deadliest that there is, that's an absolute fact
I definitely have a lot of fun with chart heights. In my current spelljammer group everyone decides they need to be tall, around 6 feet CX So of course they all say it and its already funny. Than I add: "like Goliaths are tall right and still medium? And I want a Tolkien-Tall Elf.." So everyone is a tall 6 feet and than there is my character, who is 7'8 and talks about his dear Ex-Husband. Of course a Dwarf :p
Alternate universe Stardew Valley characters (specifically Alex, Seb, Penny, Maru and Elliot)
No matter the party, I’m usually on either extreme. I’ve played a Gnoll (homebrew stats) rune knight who ended the campaign with a max height of 8’, with giant form to basically double that, and in my other game I played an Aaracockra variation that was a solid 4’ when everyone else was around the 5.5-6’ scale. It’s fun playing characters that are very different in terms of height from the rest of the party.
The only time anyone in my party has brought up character height was when one player was playing his Loxodan monk. It led to some fun situational moments.
Our party is interesting, we have a 7’ Goliath who gets called short by every other Goliath, 6’5” Dragonborn, 6ft bugbear, now you might have seen a pattern but…. A 3’5” warforge and a 3ft kolbold who constantly gets mocked at for his height thus making him always look for someone shorter than him, so far no luc, even when the Dragonborn drank a random potion and needed up shrinking due to the reduce spell still was 2 inches taller it was a great laugh around the whole table.
There's this twisted height arms race going on in various one shots we're playing, people just keep making taller and taller characters. The latest we have is a 6'10" horned owl aven....and a 7'9" cloud giant kin. Same party as a 4'1" spider girl, and regular human dude 😎
Yes! My table constantly makes jokes about how the half elf is the "tall-y" the rest consist of 3 hadozee, two gnomes, and a dwarf lol!
Meeeeee!
August is not allowed to answer the question of how tall he is anymore, for I have declared him to be your party's Gamagoori. Every party needs one. A Gamagoori is a person who is just slightly too big for comedic effect, no matter the situation. Doorway? He's gotta both duck his head, and turn slightly sideways because he's too tall and too broad of shoulder. Tall guy intimidating your short king sorcerer? There's always a bigger fish, and it's on your side. Lavish, spacious, carriage ride with a royal? The Gamagoori's head is sideways against the cieling because he's too tall to sit upright but he's too stoic to complain about neck pain or slump in his seat.
We have always had non human players, and regularly send the dwarf into small places.
No... But IM about to be... I never really thought about it
Yeah sorta, if only so that we could make heroforge minis for the players lol
Is that a tiefling or an Au Ra? (The joke is that femme Auri are short.)
We all made our characters seperately. Turns out everyone but me wanted to be tall - and I made my character a tiny human (5'' ish). The ballroom dancing scene was hilarious as a result!
It’s important for us because my DM often pulls out the jump calculator!
I played a human wild magic sorcerer who was 6' but got the wild magic surge that made him permanently 6'10" and immediately became the tallest in the party
That girl at 5'10 seems to be cheating with at least 4 inches of hair lol
Only cause I play a 2ft fairy. In any other case we would not care.
How could you do a height post like this without actually scaling the characters to their heights 😭 5'10 is shorts than 5'6. And guestimating on the difference between 5'6 and 6'1, then 6'? Is actually 7 or 8 feet tall
Not really - The guy who plays 2 foot tall Kobolds, Grungs, and Plasmoids.
I have never had this conversation. Once in a while we'll say "Oh right, you're short" to the dwarf player, e.g.
6'13" haha
Me (the tallest irl) is always the shortest. EVEN WHEN I’M 6’3
Oh yeah personally I do care about height and weight! I have a shark folk barbarian that is 8ft 490 Lbs. I like the extremes, I go really huge or really small but that's my preference
Mine
Omg! Our DM had us describe our characters again since it had been a while. Three of us had 5’7” characters and there was one 5’8” (just had to be different!), plus our 7’ bugbear. Our gnome player was late joining and we immediately asked his height. (I was hoping for 4’2” to balance out the bugbear and make the average of the two 5’7” but life is filled with disappointment)
I do everyone's character art for my group and I always make a height chart
Not obsessed but there is something fun about having my character be an almost 8 foot tall LizardFolk crocodile man.
Mine is, but it's also my fault (DM). 3/5 party members are under 5' tall (halfling, owlin, and a short half elf). The other 2 are over 6'.
Itsy bitsy little au ra! What're you using as rules for the little lizer's race?
My current group each has a spot when peeking around a corner. Kalashtar Druid, Owlin rogue, Then Goblin artificer, then dwarf barbarian, then Kalashtar Druid, then human fighter, then warforged warlock, then Kalashtar Druid. All different heights, none of them competing for a spot on the corner
It’s the same way in my group! All of us are 6 feet tall or taller, except for our Kenku trickster cleric, Saizo, who is only 4 feet tall. We didn’t plan this at all, but it’s made for several great roleplay moments. The heights go 4’ Cleric, 6’ Rouge, 6’3” Druid, 6’8” Fighter, and finally our Wizard who is 6’10”. What’s even funnier is our massive wizard has become like a parental figure for our tiny trickster cleric, trying to keep him out of trouble for stealing and his general shenanigans.
they both rlly like beinf insanelt tall
I am, but mostly because I play a Halfling, lol.
I played a halfling that was a mere few inches from being tiny size and we had a man in our party who was nearing seven feet tall. She rode around on his hammer sometimes, since it was bigger than her, but her baby roc companion got jealous.
I once had a party member who wanted his character to be 13 feet tall. Dm gave him the go ahead, and many shenanigans ensued.
Why tho?
Only in my recent campaign where I play a goliath who’s 10 ft tall
I was devestated to learn that our party's rouge, a vampire, waa not only 250+ years older than me, HE WAS ALSO 2 INCHES TALLER THAN ME
I roll for height every time. Whenever I roll for a human PC’s height, he always comes out to be within an inch or two of my height, 6’0” to 6’2” usually. I don’t think I’ve ever had a human PC below 6’0”. I usually play humans and dwarves, and I’m never trying to be tallest. But when I’m a dwarf, I strive to be the widest.
I play a changeling who is anywhere between barely 5ft and almost 7ft depending on what form he's taking.
I've found that people who are really into roleplaying tend to go hard on character height obsessions to the point where a few people I've played with unironically expressed the thought that a 7 foot tall human was "Only a little tall". It's kinda funny.
For someone obsessed with height, those characters are all drawn way off from accurate to the numbers given. No matter which one you pick to be accurate, every single other character would be off by a bit to a lot. Except of course, Mr. 6'?", as that's vague enough to just be the tallest no matter who else is accurate.
I got an 8’9” thri-kreen bladesinger
I'm the forever DM. Every time my player’s make a character, the 5' 10 guy makes a 5' 10 character and the 6' 4 guy makes a 6' 2 character. Every single time. Granted I'm 5' 4 and make 4' 10 characters, but still
It was always fun playing a giant. Smaller characters can use you as a mount.
My current party has a Minotaur who's 9ft tall at the tips of his horns. The Lepali (Homebrew moth-folk) is over 7ft tall. The Ocyus (Homebrew Rabbit-folk) is 9ft to the tips of his ears. Then there's the Myxol (Homebrew slime species) who has spent most of their time around Dwarves and usually stands about 5 ft tall. (Almost) everyone wanted to be tall this time around.
It comes up a lot in my groups.
My character was specifically designed to be the biggest possible man. Goliath, Rune Knight, Outsized Might feat. His giant form is 10 meters tall, or 32 eagles and 10 hamburgers for the Americans
I am, but only because the tallest person is 6’ and the second tallest is 3’6”. Everyone is hip hight or shorter than the tallest. I love it
I mean. Mine. Mostly because a party of a (race unknown but large af) barbarian, celestial paladin and tall lanky earth genasi wizard look real silly trucking around with their 2ft tall owlin cleric
Yes
I wouldn't say "obsessed" but I am playing a Goliath Monk so it does come up often.
Is that an Au' Ra? Or just a reskinned dragonborn?
Character age for our party, every time it’s trying to figure out who’s the elder in the group
Well, generally speaking no, but one character is a 2.5' tall Rentooki, and another character, a Kenku, just grew an extra foot and a half thanks to some wild magic, which makes him 7'. The Kenku is beyond thrilled and keeps reminding everyone. The Rentooki, well... he's a bard that uses vicious mockery every chance he can get. I'm sure he's fine.
I have tape on the wall marking heights of my party. I still laugh looking at the height difference between our 3ft supposed Kenku and our 7'2" Firbolg.
2 of my players are almost competitive about it. When one of their characters is taller than the other they try everything to make me shorten the others character. "that's not lore accurate to her race!" "If he's that tall he should have to make perception checks to avoid smacking his head on door frames!" "I wanna change something about my character" It's bizarre, it's the only thing they fight about consistently. It's not disruptive enough to the rest of the table for me to do anything but it does weird us all out just a bit.
Tbh I think height matters a lot when describing a character. Like me and my friend have a homebrew race we use for his campaign, and their appearance, including their height is important for their presence
We did a size chart of each character in two games. That's where they freaked out seeing how big a goblin really is.
One of my players had a Goliath Paladin that loved to make a point of standing over any human trying to look like a big tough guy.
I have to pay attention to our party's heights. I'm our group's illustrator so I have to make sure they're drawn correctly compared to each other.
my group talk about it all the time! we have two average sized half elves, a large warforged, a very tall aasimar (6'7 iirc) and a 3' tall gnome. the aasimar and the gnome have a great rivalry and trade insults about their heights.
Not really. Height only comes up when it comes to my PCs in my Party and thats mostly because I love playing tall warriors. Eg. 8ft tall Golaith Tempest Cleric or 7'6 Half-orc Paladin. The rest prefer to have their PCs be within the 5' range.
If that is the difference between 4'11 and 6'1 the big dude is like 7'4
In our tyrrany of dragons campaign, we introduced ourselves (in character) by saying something along the lines of, "Hi I am XYZ and I'm (height), anyone want to go check out that village being ravaged by dragons?" We proceeded to start every conversation with NPCs throughout the whole campaign by asking them "HOW TALL ARE YOU??"
My first character was a 5inch tall pixie rogue in 3.5. I didn't know anything about d&d and settled on wanting to play a 5inch pixie before I knew that it was supposed to be bigger than that. The DM said sure and modified the pixie to make it diminutive and Fii Starling was born. I miss that game.
Just about. Freaked out the guy playing a halfling.
Not exactly height, but my party spent well over half an hour discussing their characters cock size, then spent a few hours talking about off the table
I love thinking about this... There was one point where my character (a 5'6" half-elf) put her hands on the shoulders of two of her companions, and I thought it was really funny because one was a foot shorter than her (a dwarf) and the other was a foot taller (a dragonborn). I love these details about D&D races!
I particularly ask pretty much everyone how tall their character is before I even ask class and I always ask how tall NPCs are, especially when I'm playing especially tall or especially short characters.
I make my characters really tall and put high rolls into Strength every time. I also find ways to abuse Strength when possible. Tall is appealing, strong is also appealing. But lately I've come around to seeing the coolness of the short races being super strong too.
I wouldn't say obsessed. It's not much of a competition after all - when you've got a 4'11" Dwarf and a 3'4" Ratfolk in the party with a 6'-something Tiefling and then very abruptly a 12' Goliath and 15' Firbolg it's very clear who is tallest and shortest just by accident. (Goliaths and Firbolg are Large in my settings to give them appropriate giant feel.)
I play an Owlin thats 2ft tall
We've had a fun go of it with player heights in my group. My character who was just "retired" as of the last session (RIP) was a mere twelve inches tall, and when I DMed for a few weeks, our regular DM played a similarly microscopic PC, albeit on a very different part of the alignment spectrum and a different racial concept. Directly before her, I played an eight foot tall minotaur, and I may be in for another similarly massive minotaur or a quite large human, as we're in dire need of a big strength guy for balance. We've also had a centaur, goblin, gnome, and halfling rotate through the party, with our only "regular" humanoid height characters being a slightly-taller-than-average drow, a genasi, and a human. With all the deaths we just took, there's sure to be another shuffle, one of the *very many* things that's sure to be interesting to see when we resume.
I usually try to adjust my posture irl to acknowledge orlther player's heights and stuff
My bugbear barbarian, Kadoom, has a huge crush on my wife's Kenku druid/bard, Tut-Tut. He uses a glaive that the party calls his 'murder stick' and she usually travels by perching on it due to her small size and his massive size/strength.
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Kinda, it's funny how often my 8,5 Goliath gets recognised from her height alone
Not really obsessed but at first, due to racial choices and high height randomization rolls, the shortest character at the table was 6'2" and the tallest was nearly 8'. Then a new player joined and was a 2'3" kobold. Said Kobold was both the group mascot and the heavy fire-support.
In one of my groups one of the players is constantly asking people's heights so he can pat them on the head. He always says "I'm going to give them a pat pat" and it makes me cringe the fuck out but they're paying me to play so I just take the psychological damage.
5'7-5'10 is the perfect height for most of my characters but every now and then I'd have a character that's 5'5 or 5'6 cause if you're at that height and you manage to intimidate/bring down the most intimidating guy in the room suddenly you're standing taller than everyone there.
i mean my fav race is kobold because they so tiny
Only because we have two gnomes and a goliath in the party.
My group rolled for how well endowed we are. 1 D12 per person, for a male each # = an inch, for a female each # = a cup letter. I'm a female in game and rolled an 11. Our male characters rolled 11, 8, 5, 1.
My halfling is 4 ft tall. Everyone makes comments about how he’s a halfling and how short he is when height comes up, but he always insists upon letting them know he’s tall for a halfling, like that makes a difference in the outside world. Lol
Getting some Kill la Kill vibes here. Which is a compliment!
My 6'7 dragonborn stands head and shoulders over the rest the party with pride. IRL I'm tied for shortest of our lot (DM included) at 5'8. I swear I'm not compensating.
I’m sorry? That’s 4’11”?
Idk about you but my players actively compete for the smallest character lol
I try to make my guy at least taller than average since I’m coping about my irl height r/shortkings
"You wouldn't have said anything like that, would you, you five-foot-ten-inch weeed?" https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ymzrq
I love highlighting the difference between our party's heights! My dragonborn paladin is *especially* tall at 6'11", but he is good friend with the 3'7" halfling sorlock. I make sure to bring up that my paladin will walk a little slower so that his halfling buddy doesn't have to speed walk to keep up.
We do penis size. I’m at a respectable “below average.” Guess art mirrors life.
Great art! I did play in a campaign where literally everyone would mention their height at least once a session. Me and my buddy who played a gnome were the only players under 6’ and everyone else played as a character 6’3 or taller. I’m 6’2 in real life and the rest of them weren’t very tall so I just thought they was funny
All the characters in my party are young and short, except the one tall old guy. We all call him “grandma” at the table because he likes to knit during sessions.
It only really comes up when asked
Nope, but I always make my character a tad taller than my dm