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Mr Crabman

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A notion of required sizes for body parts to work
« on: August 18, 2022, 07:13:37 am »
When magic comes along that lets you shrink body parts, it would be weird if you made a creature's wings tiny, but it could still fly, right? Logically, it should fall because the wings aren't big enough anymore.

Of course, fantasy creatures are able to fly even with unrealistic wing sizes, but even for them, surely there is a limit to just how small they can be made? A dragon or roc may be unrealistic with it's wings supporting such a weight, but even in the context of the fantasy setting where the rules are stretched, if you made them 5% of the size it would just be silly for them to keep in the air.

It would be possible to exempt creatures from this of course (after all, some don't even need wings at all), and set what is "allowed" for that specific creature.

This sort of thing could be applied to other body parts as well of course; shrunken hands can't hold the same weapons as before, tiny legs can't be used to walk (have to crawl with hands), and so on.
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