Creature size

A creature's size indicates how large it is.

Overview

Creature size roughly communicates other parameters like the model's dimensions, how much space it physically occupies, their weight, and their ability to interact with the environment, such as via Rocky Crevices and Burrow Holes.

A creature's size and weight can be inspected by selecting it and choosing Examine, or targeting it with the cursor and hitting the corresponding hotkey.

The weight of a creature affects who or what can  Throw or  Shove it.

• A creature may throw items and other creatures weighing up to $0.2\times {\text{Strength}}^2\text{kg}$ or $0.4\times {\text{Strength}}^2\text{lbs}$.
  • For example, with 18 Strength, one can throw objects weighing up to $0.2\times 18^2\text{kg}=64.8\text{kg}$ (or 130 lbs).
• When a creature's size changes, its weight is also adjusted as necessary to conform with the above categories.

Size categories

Size	Minimum weight		Maximum weight		Example creatures
	kg	lbs	kg	lbs
Tiny	0	0	6	12	Cats, crag spiders, frogs, and air elementals
Small	11	22	40	80	Halflings, gnomes, goblins, and dire ravens
Medium	45	90	200	400	Humans, dwarves, and most other playable races
Large	205	410	5,000	10,000	Ogres, owlbears, Ansur
Huge	5,005	10,010	50,000	100,000	Red dragons
Gargantuan	50,005	100,010	500,000	1,000,000	Nautiloid

Modifying size

Altered form

When a creature's form is changed (examples in table below), part of the parameters they inherit include the form's size and weight as per the above table.

Condition	Size	Source	Duration
Disguise Self	Respective Race's (Small for gnomes and halflings, Medium for others)	Mask of the Shapeshifter ( Shapeshift)	Duration: Until long rest
		Disguise Self
		Mask of Many Faces
		Seeming
Wild Shape: Badger	Medium	Wild Shape	Duration: Until long rest
Wild Shape: Polar Bear	Large
Wild Shape: Cat	Tiny
Wild Shape: Giant Spider	Medium
Wild Shape: Dire Wolf	Medium
Wild Shape: Dire Raven	Small
Wild Shape: Deep Rothé	Large
Wild Shape: Panther	Medium
Wild Shape: Owlbear	Large
Wild Shape: Sabre-Toothed Tiger	Medium
Wild Shape: Dilophosaurus	Large
Wild Shape: Air Myrmidon	Small
Wild Shape: Earth Myrmidon	Medium
Wild Shape: Fire Myrmidon	Small
Wild Shape: Water Myrmidon	Medium
Gaseous Form	Tiny	Gaseous Form	Duration: Until long rest
		Mist Stance
		Wind Walk
Wild Magic: Cat Form	Tiny	Wild Magic: Cats and Dogs	Duration: 2 turns
Wild Magic: Dog Form	Small
Polymorphed	Medium	Wild Magic: Polymorph	Duration: 2 turns
		Polymorph	Duration: 5 turns
Toad Mode	Tiny	Dolly Dolly Dolly	Duration: 1 turn
Big Pig	Medium
Cattle Prattle	Large
Displacer Beast Form	Medium	Displacer Beast Shape	Duration: Until long rest
Slayer Form	Large	Slayer (Class Action)	Duration: Until long rest

Enlarge and reduce

Furthermore, additional modifications can be made to a creature's size to shift it into neighbouring categories, as per the table below.

• Creatures cannot change to categories larger than Gargantuan or smaller than Tiny.
  • Other parameters, like their physical model, can still change size.
• $\text{Enlarged weight}=\text{original weight}\times 2.35$ or the minimum weight of the new size, whichever is larger.
• $\text{Reduced weight}=\frac{\text{original weight}}{2.35}$ or the maximum weight of the new size, whichever is smaller.
• Conditions with the same Stack ID (see table below) are replaced if another one is applied; they do not stack.
  • For instance, a duergar inflicted with  Enlarged is Large, and using  Whossa Large Fellow? first cancels Enlarged, then applies it anew.
  • Using  Enlarge on a  Reduced creature first cancels Reduced (regardless of initial source), then applies Enlarged, changing their overall size by 2 categories. Using  Reduce on an Enlarged creature does the opposite, reducing a creature's size by 2 categories.
  • Despite being separate conditions with additional effects,  Giant Form and  Giant's Rage still overwrite Enlarged and Reduced.
• Conditions with different Stack IDs can stack, changing a creature's size as appropriate.
  • An Enlarged creature that uses an  Elixir of the Colossus increases an additional size category. This increase seems to be more unstable than a normal single size increase.^{[See: Bugs]}
  • A creature with  Elixir of The Colossus that is then Reduced returns back to its original size. It then changes again as appropriate when either effect ends or is replaced.
• These changes apply after taking into account a form change, such as  Wild Shape.
  • As such, a Medium  Cat, Gargantuan  Owlbear, or Tiny  Sheep are all possibilities, amongst other combinations.
• In Honour Mode,  Elixir of The Colossus is mutually exclusive with  Reduced,  Enlarged, and  Giant Form, but it can still stack with  Giant's Rage.

Stack ID	Condition	Size change	Source	Duration
SIZE	Reduced	-1	Oil of Diminution	Duration: 2 turns
			Sethan ( Sethan: Reduce)	Duration: 5 turns
			Reduce	Duration: 10 turns
	Enlarged	+1	Enlarge	Duration: 10 turns
			Enlarge (Duergar)
			Bigboy's Chew Toy ( Whossa Large Fellow?)
	Giant's Rage		Giant Barbarian's  Giant's Rage
	Giant Form		Balduran's Giantslayer ( Giant Form)
ALCH_ELIXIR	Elixir of The Colossus	+1	Elixir of the Colossus	Duration: Until long rest

Bugs

• The increase in weight (but not size) caused by any of the 4 enlarging conditions ( Enlarged, etc.) on a creature that ends up as Huge or Gargantuan is unstable; it may be lost or regained in response to performing actions or gaining or losing conditions.
•  Polymorphed other than Starry Forms double all adjustments to size category (but not weight or visual size) from  Reduced and pre-existing enlarging conditions. For example, a reduced character  Disguised as an elf is Tiny, not Small, but still weighs 32 kg (64 lb).