{"id":91,"date":"2018-08-07T14:28:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/?p=91"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:54:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:54:41","slug":"thats-about-the-size-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/2018\/08\/07\/thats-about-the-size-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s About the Size of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>UPDATE: This post is somewhat obsolete given how much more detailed the Size rules are in SWADE.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I struggle all the time with understanding Size in Savage Worlds, so to help myself I compiled an ascending list of Sizes and what creatures from various books are listed as being at that Size.<\/p>\n<p>For every 2 points Size difference, it\u2019s +1 to be hit and -1 to hit. Creatures from Size +4 to +7 have the Large ability and fill a 2\u201d square on the tabletop. From Size +8 to +10, they are Huge and occupy an area 3\u201d square. If the creature is +11 or more, it is considered Gargantuan and occupies a 4\u201d square area. I would expect a Colossal creature to essentially take up a Large <del>Burst<\/del>\u00a0Blast Template.<\/p>\n<pre> -2: Tiny, rat-sized (SWDE), Sprite (UFG)\n -1: Small, big housecat, small dog, up to Halfling (UFG)\n  0: Human-sized\n +1: Slightly larger than human, i.e. orc (SWDE), Cyborg (SFoNA), Collector (FC)\n +2: Significantly larger than human, i.e. Brodkil, Lesser Demons (SFoNA)\n +3: Big, Splugorth Minion Barge, Ostrosaurus, Gargoyle (SFoNA)\n +4: Large, Great White Shark (SWDE), Fury Beetle (SFoNA)\n +5: Large, Drake, Hammer Beast, Feculence Daemonix (SFoNA)\n +6: Large, Dragon Hatchling, Immolator, Rhino-Buffalo, Greater Demon (SFoNA)\n +7: Largest of the Large, Wooly Worm (SBBoFF), T-Rex, Lloigor, Dagon (RoC)\n +8: Huge, Hunting Horror, Shoggoth (RoC), Sirean (SBBoFF), Adult Dragon (SFoNA)\n +9: Huge, Star Spawn of Cthulhu (RoC), Fire Dragon (SWoFG)\n+10: Hugest of the Huge, Giant Worm (SWDE), Demonic Titan (ETU)\n+11: Gargantuan, Tree Man (FC), Maze Dragon (DLR)\n+12: Gargantuan, Gigantic Raging Monster (SFoNA), Sea Serpent (FC)\n+13: Gargantuan, Cave Dragon (SWoFG)\n+14: Gargantuan, Submosaur (SWoFG)\n+15: Most Gargantuan of the Gargantuan, Rattler (DLR)\n+16: Colossal, Giant Monster (SPC)\n\n  SWDE: Savage Worlds Deluxe Edition (the core rulebook)\n SFoNA: Savage Foes of North America (from Rifts for Savage Worlds)\n   RoC: Realms of Cthulhu\n   ETU: East Texas University\n   DLR: Deadlands Reloaded\n   SPC: Super Powers Companion\n    FC: Fantasy Companion\n SWoFG: Savage World of Flash Gordon\n   UFG: Ultimate Fae Guide\nSBBoFF: Savage Bestiary: Book of Fantasy Fiends<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: This post is somewhat obsolete given how much more detailed the Size rules are in SWADE. I struggle all the time with understanding Size in Savage Worlds, so to help myself I compiled an ascending list of Sizes and what creatures from various books are listed as being at that Size. For every 2 &hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/2018\/08\/07\/thats-about-the-size-of-it\/\" class=\"more\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That&#8217;s About the Size of it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savagerifts.wnyrpg.com\/adaptations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}