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[Buttery_Mess]

I'd say around 4 feet tall is about right. In my head, dwarves are about 2/3 the height of a human but much bulkier.

[claer_runway]

weren't neanderthals taller than humans?

[Darvi]

Not really, they were slightly shorter than we are now.

Of course, compared to ,say , medieval humans they were quite tall, yes.

[Max White]

The important thing to remember, folks, is that dwarves have the exact same body proportions as humans. They are exactly the same as humans, but slightly smaller. So take a full grown man, and a dwarf is 6/7 of hes hight. There are humans shorter then that, and they arn't even looked at as being midgets or anything.

If you wanted to fix this oversite, you would have to resize the dwarf to make the upper and lower body smaller.

[NW_Kohaku]

That body proportion ratio is just by volume, not by height, though.  Torso, arms, legs, etc. could all be made thicker, but shorter in precisely equal proportion... as utterly silly as that is from an evolutionary standpoint.

[Untelligent]

The average dwarf height is probably around a beard-decade. Maybe just a bit less.

[NW_Kohaku]

The average dwarf height is probably around a beard-decade. Maybe just a bit less.

Aiming for sub-culture osmosis, are we?   

[Max White]

Well, it you force anything, it will work sooner or later.

[Buttery_Mess]

As I said in another thread, dwarves appear to be as strong as humans (if not stronger), which means (if they're smaller) that they'd need to apply more torque, which means they'd need to be more muscley and therefore bulkier. So, if that bulk is where their volume is, they be quite a bit shorter than humans.

On the other hand, volume is cubic. A humanoid half as high as an adult human would have only a quarter of the volume and thus mass. So, if dwarves have only a slightly lower volume, they wouldn't be that short at all.

But then, why would you call them dwarves if some of them were taller than the average human woman?