Tobold's Blog Monday, July 05, 2010 Tall or small?  My druid in
World of Warcraft, who is a tauren, is an engineer. And it turns
out that the helicopter mount he can build doesn't scale with
character size, thus he looks extremely funny, a big cow in a
tiny cockpit. Other items in the game scale, so if you see a
gnome and a tauren wielding the same weapon, the weapon will be
in the appropriate size for the character. For reasons of game
balance the run speed and jump height of every character in the
game is exactly the same, but as we instinctively judge speed
and height in comparison to our height, we often get the
impression that smaller characters run faster and jump higher.
Besides the optical differences, there are a few real minor
advantages to playing a small character. In PvP small characters
are less visible, and less likely to be targeted by somebody
using the mouse to target. Although of course tab targeting and
the use of name plates can remove that advantage. Character size
also makes a differen