Questions tagged [creature-size]
For questions about the physical proportions and applicable size categories of creature dimensions.
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What's the best way to resolve a paradox created when a mage shapeshifted into a larger creature enters an antimagic field, but its true form doesn't?
This is based on a situation that's happening in my current campaign, though the example below is simplified to remove unnecessary context.
The shapechange spell (Player's Handbook, page 274) only ...
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How big is a dragon?
I know from the Monster Manual "Dragon Age Categories" table on page 86 that a young dragon is "large". Which means that if you play on a battle map, he takes up 2x2 squares, which 10 x 10 feet.
What ...
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What size category is a reduced Tarrasque?
The rule for a creature's size is as follows on Monster Manual page 6:
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\begin{array}{lll}
\textbf{Size} & \textbf{Space} & \textbf{Examples} \\
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\text{Tiny} & \text{2½ by 2½ ft....
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Does the radius of the Spirit Guardians spell depend on the size of the caster?
The spirit guardians spell description states:
Spirits float around you up to 15 feet away.
Certain other spells like antilife shell state:
A barrier extends from you in a 10-foot radius and ...
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Are Goliaths able to wield large-sized weapons?
With the new Elemental Evil Player's Companion released awhile ago, Goliaths were added to 5e. I'm unfamiliar with 3.5 and previous editions, but I know that they were included and wielding large ...
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Does a gargantuan creature still die if only the feet are ever attacked?
A group of PCs without ranged weapons is facing a gargantuan creature (e.g. Tolkien's Oliphaunts). Obviously, if they don't climb the creature, they can only hit a small and non-lethal part of it (...
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Are there any benefits to being a small character?
Small characters face a number of disadvantages. They can't use two-handed weapons, and have to use two hands to wield a versatile weapon DDI.
Further disadvantages include:
The inability to Grab ...
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Can small characters really carry that much?
Let's take a gnome for the example. Here is what the PHB 37 says for its size:
Size. Gnomes are between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 40 pounds. Your size is small.
The PHB 176 also says the ...
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How does the eldritch invocation "Repelling blast" affect a bigger creature?
I am currently playing as Melkor, a young warlock who uses his eldritch blast in pretty much every fight.
Since Melkor is level 7, he has access to 4 eldritch invocations. One of them is Repelling ...
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Is it against RAW to allow an Enlarged/Oversized net to restrain a Huge creature?
A net's rules specify that it has no effect on a Huge (or Gargantuan) creature (probably because the net would be too small to bother such a creature).
However, when targeted by the Enlarge effect of ...
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Is there a lower limit to the size of creature a druid can wild shape into?
In the last few sessions, our druid has been using the tactic of transforming into a spider or other bugs and scouting out entire floors of dungeons by slipping under doors and remaining unseen.
Is ...
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What RAW weirdness would arise from a PC being permanently Tiny?
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Every official playable race in D&D, to the best of my knowledge, is either Medium or Small. Even for creatures that should be Large (meaning where the "monster" versions of ...
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How can my tiny fey (custom race) PC avoid drowning in her potion of healing?
My husband is the DM, and he made a custom race for me — a tiny fey. The only problem is the the size of a Potion of Cure Light Wounds: it would be a bathtub for me, due to being 8 inches tall. We ...
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How to handle a Tiny Player Character in 5e?
Are there any official rules for tiny characters in 5e?
I have a player who is wanting to play a Sprite character. I have found what seems to be a balanced race build here, but I can't find any ...
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Does an Enlarge/Reduce spell on a druid affect the beast form if the druid Wild-Shapes?
If a druid (multiclassed into sorcerer) casts Enlarge on himself so that he becomes a Large humanoid (approximately twelve feet tall), and he then Wild Shapes in a brown bear, is the brown bear form ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of allowing a player to play a large creature?
We're playing 4e Thunderspire Labyrinth and we've decided to let the tank play a large (2x2) Minotaur.
He has all of the stats from the Minotaur player character in the Players Handbook 3, but he's a ...
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Does the Enlarge spell stack if it is cast multiple times?
Does the enlarge/reduce spell stack if it is cast multiple times?
In my campaign my character and party want to know if it is possible to cause our barbarian to become huge in size (two enlarge ...
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Is it possible for a PC to become Huge or larger, in order to try and grapple a Tarrasque?
The way our game is going, it is entirely feasible we may end up fighting a Tarrasque.
When it comes to grappling, RAW says the following:
The target of your grapple must be no more than one size ...
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What are the height (and weight) size ranges for each size category of creature?
Changelings have the ability to change their height and weight, but not so much they change a size category:
[...] You can also adjust your height and weight, but not so much that your size changes. [...
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How should I handle REALLY big creatures in combat?
In Pathfinder, most creatures take up no more than 30' square. However, this size doesn't really do justice to a number of larger creatures, should I want to model them. Being, frankly, exceedingly ...
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Do attacks that give the Grappled condition work against creatures more than 1 size larger?
Many creatures, such as the Giant Frog, have attacks that grapple on a hit:
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: [...] Hit: (1d6 + 1) piercing damage. The target is grappled (escape DC 11).
Does this ...
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Can Medium creatures squeeze into smaller spaces?
Here are the rules for "squeezing" from the SRD (the PHB text is identical; emphasis mine):
A creature can squeeze through a space that is large enough for a creature one size smaller than it. Thus,...
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What size doors can a Giant Ape squeeze its body through?
This question keeps coming up in our groups over and over without a satisfactory conclusion (and frankly quite a few hurt feelings on the part of upset polymorphed players, and the rules lawyers ...
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If I allowed a player to play a Large-size character, what advantages and disadvantages would they have compared to a typical character?
My group is interested in playing a campaign in the Theros setting with PCs being a bunch of mythological creatures.
The Minotaur and Centaur playable races have the size set as Medium for player ...
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Does Size Affect AC?
I have been playing 3.5 for 6 years now and am trying out 5e. Does size affect AC in 5e? In 3.5 a tiny creature would get a bonus to their AC for being smaller, while a huge creature would get a ...
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Is there anything that cancels out Small creatures' disadvantage to attack when using Heavy weapons?
A party member in a D&D 5e game I'm in is playing a halfling paladin. It occurred to me (for whatever reason) to ask what weapon they were wielding, and they said their main weapon was a maul, and ...
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Can you fly over a Medium enemy creature in a 10ft tall corridor?
Let’s say you, a Medium character, are in a 5ft wide, 10ft tall corridor, and that a Medium enemy creature stands in your way. You wish to go behind the enemy creature using your fly speed (either ...
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Can forcecage fit creatures whose size category is larger than the cage?
The forcecage spell says that the target(s) must fit entirely within the effect.
But Player's Handbook says that size categories aren't an indicator of actual size, just "combat presence".
So the ...
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Can Kobolds count as tiny for sharing a square with a teammate?
I'm playing a Dragon Fire Adept Kobold, and the Slight Build feature made it seem like I could share a space with a party member.
Slight Build: The physical stature of kobolds lets them function in ...
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Can a Huge bird (STR 15, <1000 lbs) really fly off with a Gargantuan Brontosaurus (>30000 lbs)?
I am a druid shaped into a Quetzalcoatlus, a Huge flying creature. I see a Brontosaurus and know I can grapple a creature up to one size larger (up to gargantuan). To everyone's surprise, I succeed in ...
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Is there a way to increase a creature's size category twice?
The Enlarge/Reduce spell can make a creature one size category bigger.
Considering that two spell effects of the same nature cannot stack at the same place and time (you can't cast two Enlarges on ...
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Can a gnome/halfling ride another player as a mount?
Same gnome druid as my other question, who does not have legs. There are places that my gnome's mount cannot go, like up cliffs. In these scenarios, could my gnome ride in another player's backpack/on ...
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For a Small race using a heavy weapon, does the Enlarge spell remove disadvantage on attacks with it?
The heavy weapon property is described as follows:
A heavy weapon’s size and bulk make it too large for a Small creature to use effectively.
And in the description of the Enlarge option of the ...
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Where does the Duergar's growth power come from?
Since their introduction in the 1st edition AD&D Monster Manual II, Duergar have had the ability to change their size. It has varied a little from edition to edition, and the ability has altered ...
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Does creature size affect weapon damage?
I have no idea whether or not this is true in D&D 5e; it was in 3.5 and Pathfinder, but it is not mentioned in the 5e Player's Handbook. For example, in 3.5 and Pathfinder, a halfling's longsword ...
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Can Large characters squeeze through a 5ft corridor between Walls of Fire?
The rules for Squeezing on page 192 of the PHB state:
Squeezing into Smaller Spaces
A creature can squeeze through a space that is large enough for a
creature one size smaller than it. Thus, a Large ...
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Are there any rules or guidelines for large character races?
I'm designing some custom races for my campaign and I'd like to allow large size characters. It seems that large characters are discouraged for some reason and although I'd like to know why what's ...
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Can the Gate spell draw a creature larger that 20 feet in every dimension through the portal it creates?
The gate spell says:
When you cast this spell, you can speak the name of a specific creature (a pseudonym, title, or nickname doesn't work). If that creature is on a plane other than the one you ...
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Does the Bugbears "Sneaky" trait always apply? Fitting into small places when larger than medium
We are playing a homebrew campaign based on the 5e core rulebooks, only allowing monster races (Monsters of the Multiverse). One of my players chose to play a bugbear rune knight.
The bugbear states: &...
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Is a bigger creature automatically stronger?
I had a discussion with my DM about how to compare the Strength score between two creatures of different sizes.
Suppose I have an Orc and a Troll with 20 Strength each, and they engage in some sort ...
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What happens when you end up sharing an enemy (or friend's) space due to a size change?
The rules are clear about "willingly" ending a move in an occupied square:
"Whether a creature is a friend or an enemy, you can’t willingly end your move in its space."
But they aren't as clear when ...
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What, approximately, is the size of a Tiny creature?
I was wondering what the actual size was of a Tiny creature. Could they fit under doors, through keyholes, or is that too small?
For example: could I use an imp familiar to scout an area, by making ...
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How much does a large monstrous spider weigh?
The first spider shape an Arachnomancer gets will be a small, medium, and large monstrous spider. Let's just talk about large size for the sake of argument.
According to a National Geographic ...
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Does magic armor automatically resize?
I tought I was pretty sure this is not the case, but some discussion has arisen and I'm not so sure anymore.
What I know:
Most magical objects in the game auto-resize when worn by creatures of ...
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Can a Large creature enter Leomund's Tiny Hut from below? [duplicate]
The other day one of my spellcasters conjured Leomund's tiny hut so his team could sleep in peace:
A 10-foot-radius immobile dome of force springs into existence around and above you and remains ...
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What size category are weapons if brought to life with the "Animate Objects" Spell?
A wizard at my table wants to use weapons (greatswords) for his Animate Objects spell. Do I take the weapons base damage and match it with the table of Animate Objects (2D6 making them Medium), or are ...
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What happens when polymorph ends in a demiplane that is too small for the creature?
The Demiplane spell lets you create a permanent room 30 feet in any dimension as a separate plane, which would then be smaller than the Tarrasque.
On the other side I may polymorph a Tarrasque into a ...
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What special rules apply to tiny or smaller characters/creatures?
Tiny creatures have a number rules exceptions, in addition to their size modifier, space and reach, and encumbrance. I think they get to add their dexterity modifier to some things rather than their ...
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Does a size large or larger creature killed by Negative Energy Flood rise as a medium sized zombie?
The spell Negative Energy Flood (XGtE pg. 163) states:
A target killed by this damage rises up as a zombie at the start of your next turn.
And also,
Statistics for the zombie are in the Monster ...
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Shooting through spaces occupied by a large creature
I was wondering if I could shoot through a large creature like the image below?
On the right image, one of the players insists that a large creature shouldn't be able to fill up the 10x10ft space, ...
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