Reminds me of a tale I heard of a DND campaign. The players kept one-upping each other on their character’s physical dimensions as characters died or were swapped out. And their weights didn’t match. The players didn’t want to estimate realistic weights, as that would make their characters seem fat. Eventually the whole party was composed of these extremely tall yet unrealistically light characters. So the DM responded by having NPCs start treating the whole party like monsters, treating them as if they physically had the proportions the character stats implied. The party kept finding that entire villages would run away from them in terror.