Questions tagged [creature-size]
For questions about the physical proportions and applicable size categories of creature dimensions.
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How can I assume a larger alternate form?
The Weretouched Master prestige class from Eberron Campaign Setting and the Primeval prestige class from Frostburn have a size limit restriction on your alternate form. I'm wondering if there's any ...
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Breaking size limitation for lycanthropy
I'm trying to find any way to get around the whole "you can only choose an animal up to 1 size category different than yourself" rule for Lycanthropes, Shifters who are going Weretouched Master, and ...
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What's the shortest Small-size humanoid ever published, so I can Alter Self into one?
I'm looking for the shortest official humanoid creature I can transform into with the second level wizard spell alter self.
This excludes taking feats or archetypes to get even shorter, of course. ...
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Is my short-ish human counted as small?
I play a female human rogue, who is 5'2'' and 110 lb. One of my playmates jokingly mentioned how ridiculous it is that she and his character (a dragonborn) are both medium size. I know that the ...
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Does a feat's size prerequisite include smaller sizes?
The Player's Handbook on Prerequisites says that
Some feats have prerequisites. Your character must have the indicated ability score, class feature, feat, skill, base attack bonus, or other quality ...
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Can a Half-Giant Soulknife manifest Mind Blades of the Large size category?
Note: I am aware that I am quoting from 3rd party materials, and not core Pathfinder stuff.
The Soulknife's ability Form Mind Blade says the following:
A soulknife must choose the form of her mind ...
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What is the height distribution of elfs?
This question may sound weird, but I could not find a good answer so far. All the sources cite that elfs are "taller than humans", but not how much taller or how much their height varies.
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What are the two weapon fighting penalties for a Large creature with the Lighten Weapon feat?
I have a Strix, a size Large creature, who wields a bastard sword in his main hand and a long sword in his off-hand. He has the two weapon fighting feat, Strength 20, and Dex 23.
Do these weapons ...
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What happens to a creature who is enlarged and then reduced?
Inspired by Does an Enlarge/Reduce spell on a druid affect the beast form if the druid Wild-Shapes?
Focusing on the specific effect of the Enlarge/Reduce spell:
You cause a creature or an object ...
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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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Can a medium sized creature wield a colossal sized weapon?
Can a medium sized creature wield a colossal sized weapon?
In this case, for simplicity, a Lv 14 Goliath Fighter with a Sizing Greatsword. Assume empty feat list. I can't find anything in the DMG or ...
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Are Weretigers Large when in Hybrid or animal form?
A person from my group found out an inconsistency regarding the Weretiger template in the 5E Monster Manual page 207. It describes the animal and the hybrid form to grow to enormous size (the same is ...
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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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How can a weapon of legacy be resized?
Can a Craft skill check or other mundane or magical means resize a weapon of legacy?
For example, the +1 silver Small shortsword Full Moon's Trick, a weapon of legacy, is acquired by a Medium ...
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Do you get disadvantage attacking a creature two sizes smaller than you?
Background
I'm fairly new to D&D and I've only got the free Player and DM Basic rules from the website.
Do you get disadvantage attacking a creature two sizes smaller than you?
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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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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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What happens when an Enlarged Creature dies?
Enlarge says it works on both creatures and objects. The spell doesn't specify what happens when a creature dies and the way I understand it is that a living, breathing creature becomes an object when ...
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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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Do large creatures have reach?
Does a large creature (ogre) have reach with their weapons (club) or can they only hit opponents directly adjacent to them?
The Monster Manual says the ogre has a 5' reach. Does that mean it only ...
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Are there any Large playable races with a LA of +0/+1 and if so where are they?
I know of the half-minotaur that's in a dragon mag somewhere but other than that I have no idea. I've been consulting lists of +0 and +1 LA playable races and templates but they don't seem to mention ...
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Can large characters sqeeze through 5' spaces between 2 enemies, or do they do something else?
The PHB doesn't have very much information on Squeezing, and I'm wondering how the rule applies to a creature "squeezing" between two other creatures.
Page 192 says:
Squeezing into a ...
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Anything to ignore weapon damage decrease due to being small?
I joined a recent 3.5e game as a complete newbie to the game system and chose a halfling without realizing they receive a nerf to their damage for being a small creature. I was just curious if ...
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Do creatures with inappropriately sized reach weapons threaten different areas?
Specific Examples & Questions
Basic Question: Does a grig (MM 235) wielding a Tiny longspear (PH 116, 119) (2 gp 5 sp; 0.9 lbs.) threaten no squares, adjacent squares, or squares 10 ft. away?
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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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Withdraw mechanics for large+ creatures
Which square or squares are considered starting for a large creature trying to withdraw from combat?
Can it withdraw from a medium opponent (5' reach) threatening it from the front? What if it is ...
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Does being in the same space as an ogre allow a halfling to hide between its legs?
Say I have a level 3 lightfoot halfling rogue fighting an ogre. Can I move 10 feet into the space of an ogre, use cunning action to hide, hit It with sneak attack (in its groin?), and then move out ...
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How can I convert a creature's tactical size to real life measurements?
One of the biggest improvements from 3.5 edition to the 4th DnD edition in my opinion is converting everything to game squares. It makes everything simpler, but unfortunately it also makes it more ...
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What does a club of size Large or bigger cost?
I'm working on a Master of Many Forms. Given that not all forms you can turn into creatures with high strength but not too spectacular natural attacks (Giants and such), I want to arm him with a ...
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Using a weapon made for a creature smaller than yourself, but of your size?
Because of the rules regarding category sizes it is not very handy to use something like a medium-sized longsword as a creature of size category Large or Huge (because of the -2 or -4 modifyer on ...
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What does a D&D 3.5 druid get as a result of size changes during wild shape?
A wild shaping druid will often change size category -- for example, a human druid (medium size category) might change shape into a dog (small size category). The alternate form special ability on ...
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Can flanking become irrelevant due to creature sizes?
As written it seems like there are several holes in the Flanking rules that lead to really weird results. I was hoping that someone could provide insights or ideas on this.
The first issue I ran into ...
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Does the Lesser Beast Totem upscale to 1d8 claw damage for large creatures?
I have a half-giant barbarian (built from the Advanced Races Guide). I've reached 2nd level and have taken the Lesser Beast Totem rage power.
I've noticed that the claws only mention scaling down ...
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What damage does a Halfling's Staff Sling deal?
I'm about to play a Halfling in my 1st Pathfinder game and I'm a bit confused about the Halflings Staff Sling.
Relevant information
Under "Standard Racial Traits" for halflings it states:
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Does size modifiers reverse or apply overtop when wildshaping?
OK, so, let's say I have a small creature, like a gnome, who is a druid. They wild shape into a large-sized animal.
Small creatures have these size stats:
+1 AC, -1 CMB, -1 CMD, +4 Stealth Checks
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Two-handed weapons for Trolls
In the Third Edition Player's Guide the most damaging two-handed weapons that Trolls can use are also usable by Humans. Kind of pointless being three times as heavy and half again as tall if you are ...
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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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Are there limits to size for a Warshaper's Morphic Weapons feature?
Is there any limit to how much a Warshaper (Complete Warrior) can grow their limbs using their Morphic Weapons ability? As far as the rules say, it is possible for a Tiny creature to then grow to ...
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How big a creature can you entangle with entangling breath?
I am looking for rules (which I could not find in manuals) or personal contributions to the question: how big a creature can you entangle with entangling breath?
Should it depend on the size of the ...
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Cleaving large enemies
Are there any clarifications or thoughts on if you can use cleave to get more than 1 attack against a large enemy (say takes up 4 tiles)?
The feat says "If you hit (with the first attack) you deal ...
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Are two creatures sharing one square adjacent to each other?
If a Tiny creature (like a Pixie) shares a square with a Medium creature (say human), are they considered adjacent to each other?
Adjacent Squares: Two squares are adjacent if a side or a corner of
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Does a Tiny creature have size modifiers to its carrying capacity?
DMG 222 is pretty clear that you use one carrying/lifting/dragging calculation for all PCs. Am I missing an exception for Tiny creatures, or are Pixies just that incredibly strong?
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If half a large creature's body falls on two squares, what happens?
In our game session, a Minotaur Warden knocked a large Mooncalf out of the air onto the edge of a cliff.
Half of the creature is on the edge and the other half is over the side.
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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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What happens when a large creature stops squeezing in a space that they had to use squeeze to enter?
This is a follow up question relating to What are the advantages and disadvantages of allowing a player to play a large creature?
So far, everything for the player playing the large Minotaur has ...
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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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