Dime-Scale Strength, Damage, and Characters

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by GreatWyrmGold

Well, yeah. That's more or less what's going on here, except that "of that scale" is set to a specific number and guidelines are given for adjusting things to and from said scale easily.

Part of the reason games don't have such guidelines very often is that they're basically arbitrary. Realistic scaling of humans by over about a factor of two tends to amount to stuff like "your brain is too small to be sapient", or "you die of suffocation from inadequate circulation". And with lots of key environmental parameters scaling differently from each other, properly done Microworld is the sort of radically alien environment few authors can pull off stories in. Such works all tend to have slightly different rules for the fantasy they use instead.