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Old 04-22-2014, 03:44 PM   #3
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: racial reduced consumption

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Originally Posted by Henchman99942 View Post
Do smaller and larger races eat smaller and larger meals? Is this part of the built in SM side effect? Or do you have to specifically take something like increased or decreased consumption? These seem to affect the number of meals and not the size of the meal so I don't think this is the best fit. Clothing is smaller or larger as part of the side effects from SM. I should think meal size would be as well.
Realistic animal metabolic rates, and hence food, water and oxygen demands, scale roughly with mass^3/4, so should vary about as 10^(3SM/8) with size modifier. But GURPS is quite general, and lots of things with size modifiers aren't animals at all, so you probably should buy the effect separately, the same way you do other stuff like ST or Hit Points that also scale with size, but don't come with it for free.
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