(03-02-2013, 10:29 PM)Siobhain Wrote: Touche....
In the future, I'll be more specific. For now, I suppose I'll writhe in my own shame.
Aw, shame-writhing is no fun.
Unfortunately, weight is a bit harder to calculate reliably simply because there are gaps in our knowledge about character mass. But we can still use some awkward math to figure out some ranges based on height, armed with a bit of BMI. Which is a terrible indicator in general, but it can work out well enough for these purposes.
A normal healthy adult is considered by the CDC to be someone with a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9. The lower end is skinnier, the higher end is fitter or more muscular. (Or heavier and softer, depending on taste.) The formula used is:
weight in pounds / ( height in inches ^ 2) X 703 = BMI
Except we don't want to find BMI, we want to work backwards from it. So let's just adjust this equation a little bit for what we actually want:
(BMI / 703) * height ^ 2 = weight
So. Let's figure this out with an average muscular Roegadyn woman with a BMI of 23 (fairly bulky) and a height of 7' (tall side of average). 7' is, of course, 84". We plug all that in and...
(23/703) * 84^2 = 231
So she'd be around 231 ponz, which certainly sounds reasonable for a tall and muscular woman. It's not perfect, but it's a worthy kludge without more hard data.
Edit: I managed to misspell "writhing," so good work getting math right when you're a writer. Derp me.
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