How tall is a dragon?

[Lord Munkar]

Can a huge creature, lets say a dragon, get full cover from a wall which is 10' high if it is prone?

[KenderKin]

If it is a kendragon...

Ie a kender that has been turned into a dragon and still tries to hide behind samll objects.

Seriously I would take the height of the dragon and roughly divide it into thirds,
one third legs
one third body
one third neck/head

For prone you would take away legs and neck/head leaving just the body height.....

Then the lay of the land on the opposite side of the wall would affect the height of the wall either positively or negatively.....

[Tom Baumbach]

Lord Munkar wrote:

Can a huge creature, lets say a dragon, get full cover from a wall which is 10' high if it is prone?

Is it thematically appropriate? (That should be the over-arching question, methinks.)

Regardless, we allow a 6' human to go prone and gain total cover from a 3' wall, so unless that dragon is a fair bit over 30' tall, I don't see why not.

[Lord Munkar]

Tom Baumbach wrote:

Is it thematically appropriate? (That should be the over-arching question, methinks.)

This dragon is over 1500 years old with a high intelligence and wisdom. I think it should have learned a trick or two when fighting adventurers who are after its horde.

[james maissen]

Lord Munkar wrote:

Can a huge creature, lets say a dragon, get full cover from a wall which is 10' high if it is prone?

Without adding anything to the game, a huge creature is considered to occupy a 15' cube (just like small/medium creatures occupy 5' cubes).

They can squeeze into spaces half as small. Going prone would seem to reasonably so qualify imho.

I would have say a prone horse occupying a 10'x10'x5' (lxwxh) in squares.

-James

[Krome]

Does it make sense in the game? Is it fun for everyone involved? Does it advance the story line at all? What kind of dragon is it (I seriously doubt a Red is gong to play hide and seek with PCs rather than just blasting and toying with them- and I don't see a Red toying by playing hide and seek- but that is just MY opinion)?

[Karui Kage]

If it's normal 'size' is 15', then I would say it depends on the wall. If the wall is much longer than 10', then sure, it could flatten itself enough to get total cover behind it.