Size and weight

[LordQwert]

I don't know how interesting this is to anyone else, but I have a tendency to notice nonsense like this. I've seen it in a lot of other creatures, but I'm looking at the Elysian Titan right now.

The description and picture puts them as basically humanoid in shape. The description also says they are typically 70 feet tall and weigh 20 tons. 70 feet tall is 10 times taller than a rather large human! Proportionally, this means the Titan should weigh at least 1000 (10x10x10) times as much as a human, or about 200,000 lbs. Best case scenario (using the English long ton), the given weight is 44,800 lbs. Which makes Titans approximately half as dense as humans.

This actually might make sense though. To support that height, the Titan would have to be less dense, although probably far less dense than even given here. On the other hand, at 45 strength, a 100 ton Titan would a heavy load for another Titan, which seems fair, whereas at 20tons, a Titan would be able to carry another Titan as a light load.

I'm sure there are more ridiculous examples of the size/weight discrepancy, which I would love to see.

[Kazaan]

There's another game where item weights were listed in AUM (arbitrary unit of mass). It explained that the unit was used entirely for balance purposes and did not reconcile actual weight differences between items but merely how they interacted with encumbrance limits. I get the feeling that the weights in Pathfinder, even though listed in "pounds", are a similar concept; not meant to be accurate descriptions of physical weight but more for mechanical purposes.

[Charon's Little Helper]

If you apply the cubed to squared ratio, most things more than 10-12ft tall in Pathfinder would inherently collapse under their own weight.

Every time you bring real physics into a discussion about fantasy, somewhere in the world, a catgirl dies.

Please... think of the catgirls.

Poor catgirls

[Qaianna]

Charon's Little Helper wrote:

If you apply the cubed to squared ratio, most things more than 10-12ft tall in Pathfinder would inherently collapse under their own weight.

Every time you bring real physics into a discussion about fantasy, somewhere in the world, a catgirl dies.

Please... think of the catgirls.

Poor catgirls

Why am I now imagining a tribe of catfolk fiddling around with siege engines?

[Darigaaz the Igniter]

Dot

[mechaPoet]

Sometimes you do some math to figure out how much a creature should weigh, and sometimes you just put down a number that sounds close enough to get that monster in before the deadline.