Regarding Krogans

[cogs]

Hey, hello! Yes, I just have a question about krogans. I know, on the wiki and on here it says krogans are seven feet tall, but how can that be? That would make Shepard ridiculously tall in the Okeer mission when youre talking to a tank bred:



It would also make this Salarian on Sur'kesh monstrously tall.



Also on Tuchanka during Grunt's loyalty mission the krogans are all as tall or slightly taller than Shepard. They have that hump on their backs, common for the clan leaders, like Wrex and Uvenick(sp?). However, ingame they, themselves are certainly not seven feet tall.



Also in Mass Effect 1 during the (MANY, MANY) elevator rides, you can sorta see Garrus is taller than Wrex, but Wrex's armor-hump-status symbol-thing is, itself, taller than Garrus. According to the wiki the hump is big if you're a great hunter, deadly, ect.



I was planning out a Krogan and doing some research and I noticed this, so I thought I would ask for clarification.

[Syri]

Hmm... yeah, that really doesn't make much sense. They probably shortened them for the sake of game mechanics. '' And salarians can get pretty tall themselves, I'm not sure if they can reach krogan height but they're usually taller than humans I'm sure.

I'd say anywhere from 7-9 feet would be accurate for a krogan, and that they're just so short in the game because they need to be for the sake of mechanics and everything.

[cogs]

Yes, Salarians are much taller than humans, and Turians are as well. However from the video game and all, it seems that Krogans are shorter. As for mechanics, if the Krogan need to be taller, why did they just not make the models taller? They could have scaled the model up especially considering the Cerberus enemies , such as the atlas, as well as reaper enemies like the Sion and Banshee function fine with the mechanics and they are all much larger than Shepard and the crew. Although they do probably have a different set of restrictions and whatnot, and they appear in me3 (probably a time where they figured out how to get around stuff) but anyways I'm just really confused here and I guess it's because I have never read the Mass Effect books. So I'm guessing the 7-9 foot range comes from those? I just avidly play the video games, so I really have no idea. Ahahaa;;

So basically what I'm trying to get at is for the sake of this rpg are we going off of the book version?

[Jason Rivers]

Wait wait, what about the hump? Maybe that's where their height ends? o.o

[Syri]

They could have made the models taller but perhaps they were concerned that the difference in size would have been an annoyance in the actual gameplay... I'm really not sure what was going on. Also, since the wiki estimated that they're all somewhere around 7 feet, I was just thinking that anywhere between 7-9 would be reasonable given that they're supposed to be so much taller than other races. I've never read any of the books either so that is just a guess on my part. xD

For the sake of the RP I'd just say they're somewhere in the 7 foot range usually. But we don't really need specifics - if for height someone just wants to say 'average' I'll understand that they're just going for an average-sized krogan.

[cogs]

Okay! I just wanted to know, thank you. uwu

Although it does sound plausible that perhaps the wiki was including their hump in their height estimations but man I just don't know

[Syri]

Np. <3 I guess it might be possible, but in both of the pictures everyone seems to be about the same height as their hump... so I'unno. xD This is so confusing.