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You don't need to homebrew a thing. Gargantuan creatures occupy a 20'x20' square for combat purposes. That doesn't mean they're actually 20'x20'. A halfling occupies a 5'x5' square, but last I checked, they are not actually 5'x5' (aside from the fattest of halflings). As your own link notes (emphasis added):

Space

A creature's space is the area in feet that it effectively controls in combat, not an expression of its physical dimensions. A typical Medium creature isn't 5 feet wide, for example, but it does control a space that wide.

The monster could easily be a mere 10' in diameter and 40' long all the time, it just curls into a fighting posture where it sways across a 20'x20' space, but tunnels in a straightened, narrower form.

Even if you want to play it rules as written (where moving through a space smaller than its dimensions requires squeezing), you can just declare it a 10'x40' monster all the time if you really want; Gargantuan sets a minimum size, but it seems perfectly reasonable to use any set of dimensions that makes sense and occupies andan area at least as big as the 20'x20' minimum size for Gargantuan creature (20 x 20 == 400 == 10 x 40 after all).

You don't need to homebrew a thing. Gargantuan creatures occupy a 20'x20' square for combat purposes. That doesn't mean they're actually 20'x20'. A halfling occupies a 5'x5' square, but last I checked, they are not actually 5'x5' (aside from the fattest of halflings). As your own link notes (emphasis added):

Space

A creature's space is the area in feet that it effectively controls in combat, not an expression of its physical dimensions. A typical Medium creature isn't 5 feet wide, for example, but it does control a space that wide.

The monster could easily be a mere 10' in diameter and 40' long all the time, it just curls into a fighting posture where it sways across a 20'x20' space, but tunnels in a straightened, narrower form.

Even if you want to play it rules as written (where moving through a space smaller than its dimensions requires squeezing), you can just declare it a 10'x40' monster all the time if you really want; Gargantuan sets a minimum size, but it seems perfectly reasonable to use any set of dimensions that makes sense and occupies and area at least as big as the 20'x20' minimum size for Gargantuan creature (20 x 20 == 400 == 10 x 40 after all).

You don't need to homebrew a thing. Gargantuan creatures occupy a 20'x20' square for combat purposes. That doesn't mean they're actually 20'x20'. A halfling occupies a 5'x5' square, but last I checked, they are not actually 5'x5' (aside from the fattest of halflings). As your own link notes (emphasis added):

Space

A creature's space is the area in feet that it effectively controls in combat, not an expression of its physical dimensions. A typical Medium creature isn't 5 feet wide, for example, but it does control a space that wide.

The monster could easily be a mere 10' in diameter and 40' long all the time, it just curls into a fighting posture where it sways across a 20'x20' space, but tunnels in a straightened, narrower form.

Even if you want to play it rules as written (where moving through a space smaller than its dimensions requires squeezing), you can just declare it a 10'x40' monster all the time if you really want; Gargantuan sets a minimum size, but it seems perfectly reasonable to use any set of dimensions that makes sense and occupies an area at least as big as the 20'x20' minimum size for Gargantuan creature (20 x 20 == 400 == 10 x 40 after all).

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ShadowRanger
ShadowRanger
  • 11.6k
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  • 72

You don't need to homebrew a thing. Gargantuan creatures occupy a 20'x20' square for combat purposes. That doesn't mean they're actually 20'x20'. A halfling occupies a 5'x5' square, but last I checked, they are not actually 5'x5' (aside from the fattest of halflings). As your own link notes (emphasis added):

Space

A creature's space is the area in feet that it effectively controls in combat, not an expression of its physical dimensions. A typical Medium creature isn't 5 feet wide, for example, but it does control a space that wide.

The monster could easily be a mere 10' in diameter and 40' long all the time, it just curls into a fighting posture where it sways across a 20'x20' space, but tunnels in a straightened, narrower form.

Even if you want to play it rules as written (where moving through a space smaller than its dimensions requires squeezing), you can just declare it a 10'x40' monster all the time if you really want; Gargantuan sets a minimum size, but it seems perfectly reasonable to use any set of dimensions that makes sense and occupies and area at least as big as the 20'x20' minimum size for Gargantuan creature (20 x 20 == 400 == 10 x 40 after all).