racial reduced consumption

[NineDaysDead]

Originally Posted by Henchman99942

Do smaller and larger races eat smaller and larger meals? Is this part of the built in SM side effect?

Bio-tech page 62-63

Note: Consumption of consumables (water, air, food, etc.) is normally proportionate to Size Modifier (SM), as described below. Starvation effects (p. B426) accrue whenever a creature misses 1/3 of its daily food requirements – a meal, for a human. These naturally exceed those of a human for creatures of SM +1 or more, and are smaller for those with SM -1 or less. Neither is grounds for Increased Consumption (p. B139) or Reduced Consumption (p. B80), which are for beings that require more or less food than their SM would indicate.


Weight: Multiply the miniature’s weight by the number shown. Also multiply the weight of any given meal by this amount, e.g., a meal for a 1/2 scale creature has 1/8 normal weight. However, the total number of meals per day (three for normal humans) is multiplied by the inverse of scale, e.g., six meals a day at 1/2 scale, nine meals a day at 1/3 scale, etc. Thus, a scale 1/2 creature eats six meals of 1/8th normal weight per day. Thus, the total weight of consumption is the square of scale.

weight = scale^3, so scale 1/2 gives weight 1/8.

[scc]

Originally Posted by NineDaysDead

Bio-tech page 62-63

weight = scale^3, so scale 1/2 gives weight 1/8.

Space however, may disagree with this. Page 92 says that a whole race can have increased or reduced consumption, Of course this seems to be used to adjust how much food the race as a whole eats.