Official Ruling on Character size

[Legora]

In a home campaign, I have written up rules for playing "Living Toys", action figure sized creatures that have come to life.

In one rulebook I have, 6 inches tall is listed as "Tiny".
In another book I have, 6 inches tall is listed as "Diminutive"

Can I get a somewhat official take on this?

[wraithstrike]

You have quotes for that? They or maybe us posters will have to look at the books in question to see the issue.

[Ross Byers]

This is from 3.5, but might help you:

Colossal is larger than that
Gargantual is 32 to 64 feet
Huge is 16 to 32 feet
Large is 8 to 16 feet
Medium is 4 to 8 feet
Small is 2 to 4 feet
Tiny is 1 to 2 feet
Dimutive is 6 inches to 1 foot
Fine is smaller than that

[Legora]

Ross Byers wrote:

This is from 3.5, but might help you:

Colossal is larger than that
Gargantual is 32 to 64 feet
Huge is 16 to 32 feet
Large is 8 to 16 feet
Medium is 4 to 8 feet
Small is 2 to 4 feet
Tiny is 1 to 2 feet
Dimutive is 6 inches to 1 foot
Fine is smaller than that

I can break out the rule books tomorrow and get you quotes, but I'm betting "official" will be exactly like 3.5 Thanks Ross. I guess then my pc's are Fine size, treating 1 inch as 1 foot. Most of them are smaller than 6 inches tall (About the same size as a star wars action figure)

[Darkholme]

Legora wrote:

Ross Byers wrote:

This is from 3.5, but might help you:

Colossal is larger than that
Gargantual is 32 to 64 feet
Huge is 16 to 32 feet
Large is 8 to 16 feet
Medium is 4 to 8 feet
Small is 2 to 4 feet
Tiny is 1 to 2 feet
Dimutive is 6 inches to 1 foot
Fine is smaller than that

I can break out the rule books tomorrow and get you quotes, but I'm betting "official" will be exactly like 3.5 Thanks Ross. I guess then my pc's are Fine size, treating 1 inch as 1 foot. Most of them are smaller than 6 inches tall (About the same size as a star wars action figure)

Hmm. 3.5's Creature Size and Scale table lists this:

Fine: Fly.
Diminutive: Toad.
Tiny: Cat
Small: Halfling
Medium: Human
Large (tall): Ogre
Large (long): Horse
Huge (tall): Cloud Giant
Huge (long): Bulette
Gargantuan (tall): 50-ft. Animated Statue.
Gargantuan (long): Kraken
Colossal (tall): Colossal Animate Object
Colossal (long): Great Wyrm Red Dragon.

Obviously that doesn't match up to the table Ross Provided, and I'm not entirely certain why they were inconsistent. A toad is smaller than 6 inches (about the size of your action figure characters), and by the other table, would be a fine creature.

Which standard is followed by the existing monsters? My guess is its this one.

[Sekret_One]

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A toad is smaller than 6 inches (about the size of your action figure characters), and by the other table, would be a fine creature.

This is nit picky but not all toads are smaller than 6 inches. And that's not if you're counting a toad that's stretched out. Otherwise, humans would count as small creatures if they crouched.

I would point out that I do think it's really funny that a lion and a dire lion are the same size category (large), when the dire lion is like multiple times the size and mass.

[Darkholme]

Sekret_One wrote:

Quote:

A toad is smaller than 6 inches (about the size of your action figure characters), and by the other table, would be a fine creature.

This is nit picky but not all toads are smaller than 6 inches. And that's not if you're counting a toad that's stretched out. Otherwise, humans would count as small creatures if they crouched.

I would point out that I do think it's really funny that a lion and a dire lion are the same size category (large), when the dire lion is like multiple times the size and mass.

Hmm. I suppose thats a decent point. I was thinking you'd go with default posture. Like, I imagine for large (long) creatures, they don't stretch out the back legs and measure head to feet.

[Bruunwald]

Sekret_One wrote:

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A toad is smaller than 6 inches (about the size of your action figure characters), and by the other table, would be a fine creature.

This is nit picky but not all toads are smaller than 6 inches.

Indeed. Around here, I've never seen a toad smaller than about six inches. Frogs, yes, but not toads.

[Darkholme]

Hmm. Looking at some common sizes of toads on wikipedia puts them all in the 2-3inch range.

You sure common toads get bigger than 6 inches? (curious, and wants to see examples of these monstrously large toads).

[Grick]

Darkholme wrote:

You sure common toads get bigger than 6 inches? (curious, and wants to see examples of these monstrously large toads).

Not really sure about common toads, but everyone should visit FROGLAND if only for the excellent retro web design and frog pictures.