How Shrunk?

I like when the tiny person is small enough to use doll things--e.g. the big person dresses them up in doll clothes.

ijuinkun

There will always be specifics that skew results. This is to give me a general idea from a somewhat large sample size of people. Scenarios can also be inferred by the sizes chosen. Different scenarios / stages of shrinking are fairly naturally implied.

Dan Shive

I kind of agree with Beck -- it depends on the situation. Sometimes just "shorter than" is best, other times the subject should become doll- or charm-sized. And then there's the times child-sized works better.

McClaw

It depends on the context. I prefer gradual shrinking over time, in which case the smaller the better, but if the only option is the sudden *poof* you're small now type of shrinking I'd go with 30-40%.

Edwin J. Beck

I'm a fan of all sorts of scales, up to and including scales that involve colonies of folks shrunken so small that they're, say, living on the chest of someone else, who is the size of a planet to them. There's appeal to all sorts of sizes, though my preference is for sizes that would normally be quite literally impossible: doll-sized or below.

(Not to neglect the picture I can't find now of a forest sized... Susan was it? More than one way to get a size difference!)

Traveller

Gotta say I loved the scale and situation of that Movie Night picture with Catalina and Rhoda.

Traveller

Agreed. Although the 15 to 18 cm range (6" to 7") given by reducing 5 to 6 feet to 10% is also easy to convert, if you use metric ^_^

Foradain

Generally, I only want shrinking in very specific circumstances. Basically, one girl doll-sized and her GF normal sized. If she’s not literally riding in someone’s cleavage, then there’s other things I’d rather see.

Viktor

I've always felt that around 6 inches tall is a great size - not too small to communicate and interact at least in some fashion, and not too big to be able to explore interesting places. It also allows for easy conversion between inches/feet, as that makes 1 inch = 1 scale foot. The closest to that is the 10% option, so I chose that.

Which makes sense though some of us realize realize certain situations work best with different ranges. Where more subtly is important 80% is good, for doll action hijinks (the best hijinks) 10%, and for obvious karmic retribution 50%.

PSadlon

If you don't wind up less than a foot tall, what's the point of shrinking at all? :)

Chronos Cat

The scenario you describe could be like the not-Tengue New Years Eve party where Ellen's magic could only make things more messed up...

John Trauger

Yeah, I had to decide whether there were only two sizes available, or if there was a sliding scale option (I decided on the former, so I picked a size that would allow me to get into normally-tight spaces but still able to communicate with others).

John M. Gamble

It naturally depends, but this is a "generally speaking" sort of thing. We could have dozens different polls for specific scenarios, but this is just in general.

Dan Shive

Because I'm looking for favorites and multi-select lets people just give a range that doesn't tell me much.

Dan Shive

Agreed. Context is everything.

Charles D Perry

Agree about the story. If the scenario is just "This person is shrunk", that's mostly "meh" to me. If the scenario is something like "We've shrunk Grace, Ashley, and Ellen to 10% of their normal size, and placed them on the floor with a bunch of random office supplies. Can they use the supplies to get onto Tedd's desk, where there's a device to unshrink themselves? No magic allowed!", then that sounds interesting.

M.

Why not multi select?

kuilin

"Go big" is an ironic way to put it.

Stephen Gilberg

I'm old enough to have watched "Land of the Giants" on TV... and that's always felt like the right fantasy size to me.

Adama

About 15-17% I think (roughly 1/6th scale).

jubs

My thought is if you're going to shrink, go big. Doll-size, action-figure size seems best (my math says that's the 10% mark) (Unless you're going "Fantastic Voyage" small, which isn't in the poll...) I have no strong opinion though. Shrink isn't a fetish of mine, so all I really care about is a fun story.

John Trauger

It really depends. If the scenario is all about the shrunk and dealing with being tiny and trying to figure out what to do, smaller the better. If the scenario is "oh no I am shrinking and I need to deal with people", then it doesn't need to be nearly as drastic. If it's "Welp now I'm small. Hey, normal buddy, help me out with this pencil", then somewhere in the middle would work best for me.

Joshua

At first glance, I read the question as 'How Skunk?, which is also a viable question for EGS.

Steve Harper