Sniccups
2016-10-28, 05:05 PM
So, I've been trying to develop a set of rules for sizes and the scale of real-world creatures. This is the best I've done so far:
Size Class
Space
Real World Example
"Hyperfine"
1x1 in
Fly
"Superfine"
3x3 in
Beetle
Fine
6x6 in
Dragonfly
Diminutive
1x1 ft
Mouse
Tiny
2.5x2.5 ft
Chicken
Small
5x5 ft
Most dogs
Medium
5x5 ft
Human
Large
10x10 ft
Horse
Huge
15x15 ft bipedal, or 15x20 ft quadrupedal
Elephant
Gargantuan
20x30 ft
Right whale
Colossal
30x40 ft
Blue whale
What do you think? These can all be rearranged to whatever makes sense for the monster. I would personally halve the width and double the length for a whale or something similar, so a blue whale is 80x15 ft.
There are still problems, though. I personally am very interested in making stats for things from other franchises. How do you plot, for example, the size of a thousand-foot-long snake, a turtle the size of an island, or an elephant big enough to carry buildings? It gets much stranger when looking at anime, too. I'm having trouble coming up with enough words for large things to make more size classes.
Size Class
Space
Real World Example
"Hyperfine"
1x1 in
Fly
"Superfine"
3x3 in
Beetle
Fine
6x6 in
Dragonfly
Diminutive
1x1 ft
Mouse
Tiny
2.5x2.5 ft
Chicken
Small
5x5 ft
Most dogs
Medium
5x5 ft
Human
Large
10x10 ft
Horse
Huge
15x15 ft bipedal, or 15x20 ft quadrupedal
Elephant
Gargantuan
20x30 ft
Right whale
Colossal
30x40 ft
Blue whale
What do you think? These can all be rearranged to whatever makes sense for the monster. I would personally halve the width and double the length for a whale or something similar, so a blue whale is 80x15 ft.
There are still problems, though. I personally am very interested in making stats for things from other franchises. How do you plot, for example, the size of a thousand-foot-long snake, a turtle the size of an island, or an elephant big enough to carry buildings? It gets much stranger when looking at anime, too. I'm having trouble coming up with enough words for large things to make more size classes.