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Originally Posted by kirbwarrior
I was worried a bit about ratios. I could work backwards, figuring out how many titans exist, then using their combined weight divided among each race to figure out how many of each live together. That would give a huge amount of faeries compared to the other races, though.
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I wouldn't balance biomass. As you said, that gives a huge numeric advantage to the smaller beings. They should have a lesser advantage in terms of numbers.
Actually, I ran some numbers where each increase in SM reduced the numbers by 1/3rd, and each decrease in SM increased numbers by 50%. I ended up with pixies still forming just over 50% of the population and Titans forming over 80% of the mass.
here are the numbers I got. Forgive my names.
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Size Mass Number Weight
Titans 6 140000 9 1,229,081
Giants 3 5000 30 148,148
Trolls 2 1500 44 66,667
Burlies 1 500 67 33,333
Humans 0 150 100 15,000
Dwarfs -1 50 150 7,500
Hobbits -2 15 225 3,375
Little Ones -3 5 338 1,688
Pixies -6 0.15 1,139 171
2,101 1,504,962
For contrast, doubling or halving gives Titans 60% of the weight and Pixies 80% of the population.
You could also consider a scheme where Some race in the middle is unusually well represented, and the big folks have equal mass than them and the little ones equal numbers.