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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Demihuman Height Reference

The 5e Player's Handbook gives us the following height ranges for demihumans: Dwarf, 4-5 ft.; Elf, under 5-over 6 ft.; Halfling: 3 ft.; Gnome: 3-4 ft. Here's a few images illustrating what those heights actual mean.


In the halfling and gnome range is homo florensis. The skeleton discovered was a bit over 3.5 ft.


In the dwarf and short elf height range are the Pygmy peoples of Central Africa. Height for males is under 4'11". I imagine dwarves are built less like pygmies and more like Neanderthals, though.


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5 comments:

  1. Gothridge ManorSeptember 21, 2014 at 12:20 PM

    Very cool perspective. Concrete example helps my brain wrap around concepts such as demi-human size and how damn small they really would be.

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  2. Chris C.September 21, 2014 at 12:36 PM

    That does give a good perspective. You just need to photoshop a beard onto the neanderthal woman to make her look like a true dwarven lass. :)

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  3. Kitchen WolfSeptember 21, 2014 at 5:05 PM

    Pretty small variation on the demihumans. Humans vary a lot - male US military recruits are *required* (as in some people get rejected) to be between 60 and 80 inches in height. Some guys even exceed the top end because they don't get kicked out for growing.

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  4. TreySeptember 22, 2014 at 7:02 AM

    Maybe they do, or perhaps the numbers given are just the "range" of the peak of the bell curve and still have similar variation. Pygmy dwarves?

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  5. UnknownSeptember 27, 2014 at 1:50 PM

    For additional perspective.

    http://www.viralspell.com/two-university-of-kentucky-basketball-players-with-their-cheerleaders-for-perspective/

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