Creature size and height / weight

[DangerMaus]

I can't seem to find any guidelines on this. Based on the size of creature or PC, how do you know about high tall they are and how much they weigh?
For example, my druid has a small bear animal companion. About how big is it? How big will it be when it's medium size?
Just looking for general guidelines to get an idea.

-dm

[Kais86]

Find the height/weight of a normal creature that size (regular bear) do the math like this (Length/1+x) and (weight/1+2x)

X= difference in size categories down.
Basically if it's 1 size category smaller it will be half as long/tall (as those are interchangeable) and weight 1/3 as much.

[James Jacobs]

We try to indicate these numbers in a monster's flavor text, but this isn't always something we remember or even CAN fit into the text.

3.5 had a handy chart in the back of the Monster Manual that listed standard length/heigh and weight values by size. I still use this today. It's a shame we didn't carry that chart over into Pathfinder, alas.

[DangerMaus]

James Jacobs wrote:

We try to indicate these numbers in a monster's flavor text, but this isn't always something we remember or even CAN fit into the text.

3.5 had a handy chart in the back of the Monster Manual that listed standard length/heigh and weight values by size. I still use this today. It's a shame we didn't carry that chart over into Pathfinder, alas.

Thanks Guys.

-dm

[bigkilla]

DangerMaus wrote:

I can't seem to find any guidelines on this. Based on the size of creature or PC, how do you know about high tall they are and how much they weigh?

For example, my druid has a small bear animal companion. About how big is it? How big will it be when it's medium size?
Just looking for general guidelines to get an idea.

-dm

You can try THIS.

[Giorgo]

@Bigkilla,

Thank you very much for that table! I needed to calculate the weight of a medium creature and a huge creature in order to determine how much can be carried by a huge dragon size creature with a Str 25. You made my calculations easier. :)

[lemeres]

1596 lb. That is how much a huge, 25 str dragon can carry with a light load. Max load of 4800 lb.

Note: these calculations are with the modifiers to carrying capacity due to size and body type. Huge creatures can carry 4x normal, and quadrupeds can carry 1.5x. So 6 total. The numbers would be 1064 and 3200 if your creature was more bipedal

So with that carrying capacity, such a dragon could carry anything up to large without any problems. Huge...might be, depending on which end of the weight scale it falls on.