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Erin contacted me and wondered how to calculate her Droyne sport's mass.
The various sources mostly agree on the height range, but the definitive source for mass is GURPS: Traveller Alien Races 3 which does a good job of giving the height and weight, in 3e terms, for the standard sized Droyne.
The problem is the sport caste and warrior caste are bigger.
Sports are 50% taller. Warriors are twice as tall.
I did some back of the napkin calculations and, assuming a constant form factor, got her a weight for her character.
4'-10" and 97.5 lb. (1.5m and 44.2 kg) using the stuff from 3e.
4e is not quite the same in the build chart.
Interstellar Wars says a Nugiiri (what the Vilani called the Droyne down rimward near Sol before everyone realized that all those enclaves of gray, bug-eyed sophonts were actually the same race, Droyne) should be 50% the height of a person, but using the ST 7 line ends up with characters who are too short for the racial range.
So I cheated. They are 50% the average height for their ST+3! That puts the height and weight in the correct ranges when you apply the skinny modifier.
Huzzah! Solved for all time!
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