Due to who I am fundamentally, I spent way too long making a chart for my own use of what my dragon gals would look like at various weights, from about 300 pounds to a few tons. Those aren't clean enough to share, but they did lead me to some revelations, especially in regards to the drive I did with the dragon gals a while ago.
I was trying to get the sizes somewhat realistic, and if I was in any way successful, there's a problem with the winner of that drive. For reference, this is how big she ended up:
Pretty big! Certainly a size worthy of her five tons. Turns out a little too worthy, since when I referenced my chart she would actually be around this size instead:
Still pretty big, but not nearly as huge as when I was just winging it. Jane's pretty tall at 6' 2", so that weight gets distributed out on her frame a bit more. That specifically made me realize there would be a second issue if I wanted to do a similar drive with my "realistic" sizes.
Here's Jane and Ashley at about the same level of fatness. Jane's a bit more belly-focused and Ashley more busty, but overall they look pretty similar chub-wise.
The big issue is that they're vastly different weights. With Ashley at around 6300 pounds and Jane around 10800 pounds, Jane's over two tons heavier here! If I were to run a poll on who should gain more every pound on Ashley would have a much more massive impact on her waistline! Say we swapped their weights at this point.
Well that's no fair, now Ashley looks even bigger than Jane looked before, even though they would be at the same weight!
So what to do about this? My proposal is instead of gaining weight directly, they would gain Fat Points (FP), which could then be multiplied by their Fat Point Value (FPV) to determine how much weight they would actually gain. My thought process was to pick an arbitrary weight of 5' 10" (mostly because 70" is easy to remember), say that one FP equals one pound at that height, and then do some math using the formula:
Where M is mass and H is height. Inputting our standard of one pound at 70" and solving for the second mass gets us:
And there we go! Just put in a character's height (in inches) and you get their Fat Point Value. Multiply that by Fat Points and you get how many pounds they should gain. No matter how tall or small, people with the same FP will look just as fat as one another, which allows for voting of who gets fatter without that pesky cube ratio giving short people and edge. So if we input Jane and Ashley's heights, we get 1.18 and 0.62 for their FPVs. That looks pretty similar to the weight ratio they had above!
When I get the time I really gotta do another poll drive, this'll be a good method to use on it, and clearly I'm going to have to accelerate things if I want to get to the sizes I reached in the last one with my new adjusted weight references.
