Questions tagged [creature-size]
For questions about the physical proportions and applicable size categories of creature dimensions.
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Must a PC (or other creature) be Huge in size to deal the 3d12 damage dice upon a hit with a Huge-sized greataxe as per the oversized-weapon rules?
Must a PC (or other creature) be Huge in size to deal the 3d12 damage dice upon a hit with a Huge-sized greataxe as per the oversized-weapon rules?
I believe the oversized-weapon rules are somewhat ...
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What are the benefits for a Harengon to be Small instead of Medium?
The Harengon race in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, along with many other races says:
You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race.
Besides the Squat Nimbleness feat and ...
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Can the Echo Knight's Echo's size dictate what it can grapple?
This question assumes your table rules that the echo of the echo knight can grapple. Purely RAW, I would not ask this.
Say you are a medium creature and you want to grapple something gargantuan, like ...
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Does the Bugbears "Sneaky" trait always apply? Fitting into small places when larger than medium
We are playing a homebrew campaign based on the 5e core rulebooks, only allowing monster races (Monsters of the Multiverse). One of my players chose to play a bugbear rune knight.
The bugbear states: &...
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Volume of Darkness (spell) interaction with Enlarge creature
If I am enlarged, and subsequently cast darkness on my weapon does the volume that darkness covers expand from my character or only one square that my character occupies?
If the latter, how do I keep ...
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What does a creature’s size refer to?
Does it refer to the creature's dimensions or to the area that a creature controls in combat? And if a creature changes in size, does that inherently entail a change in the creature's physical ...
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Does the Rune Knight fighter's Giant’s Might feature affect the character's height?
The Rune Knight fighter gets the Giant's Might feature at 3rd level (TCoE, p. 45), which grants several benefits for 1 minute. One of these benefits causes you to become Large-sized.
Does the Giant's ...
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Is there an issue with making a Medium-sized monster use d10 Hit Dice?
I've been a long time DM for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, but I'm only now getting a solid grasp of designing monsters and monster encounters. There's a lot of hullabaloo about CR and how ...
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How to tell size category of an object?
Artificers "Magical tinkering" ability says
You’ve learned how to invest a spark of magic into mundane objects. To use this ability, you must have thieves’ tools or artisan’s tools in hand. ...
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What are the height (and weight) size ranges for each size category of creature?
Changelings have the ability to change their height and weight, but not so much they change a size category:
[...] You can also adjust your height and weight, but not so much that your size changes. [...
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Can the Gravity Fissure spell deal damage twice to a creature of larger than Medium size?
The description of the gravity fissure spell says (EGtW, p. 187):
You manifest a ravine of gravitational energy in a line originating from you that is 100 feet long and 5 feet wide. Each creature in ...
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Potential effects of non-standard creature size in combat (purple worm)
My players are about to finish G3 (Hall of the Fire Giant King) and start D1 (Descent into the Depths of the Earth) - note that I am converting these 1e modules to 5e.
I am rolling the wandering ...
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Can an Air Elemental's Whirlwind ability hit multiple large targets?
The Air Elemental's Whirlwind ability reads:
Each creature in the elemental's space must...
Both the Air Elemental and the Minotaurs are large creatures. The Air Elemental's ability Air Form allows ...
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Can a player begin and end its movement inside a swarm's space and not incur an opportunity attack?
Dirk, Hermes, Necryx, Jomil and Sing Lore- avert your eyes, or incur the wrath of Spuggroth the Humbled and Aflame!
I'm designing an encounter where the party is trying to confront some foes in the ...
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What bonuses depend on actual size for Form Of The Dragon spells?
The Form Of The Dragon spell (and similar ones) declares that you can choose a smaller size when using a higher level spell (A.K.A. a medium-sized dragon for Form of The Dragon 3 for example). But ...
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