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Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Mother of All Size Charts

Cobbled this up over the last couple of days using the silhouettes created by Telecanter.


Click to see full size and enjoy!

EDIT: Made some adjustments to the chart, and I added a storm giant and gelatinous cube. I was way off on the wyvern, the giants needed some tinkering and my treant was too big. Of course, sizes vary. I might do some more work on the sea critters as well.

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On a side note - the print copy of NOD 12 is now up for sale at Lulu. Sorry it took so long - wanted to make sure it came out okay. 144 pages for $11.00. Map of Hell still didn't reproduce as well as I would like, but you can still grab a better looking version HERE.
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22 comments:

  1. scottszJanuary 18, 2012 at 4:54 PM

    That should be included with every clone system as a visual aid.

    Thanks to you and Telecanter. Very, very nice work!

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  2. PaulJanuary 18, 2012 at 5:12 PM

    Very good. I love size charts. I recall that at least one of the CoC books had a good one too.

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  3. Theodric the ObscureJanuary 18, 2012 at 7:42 PM

    Wow. Very cool! Now my nitpick: the roc isn't big enough to carry off an elephant.

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  4. John Matthew StaterJanuary 18, 2012 at 7:45 PM

    Yeah - I noticed that after I generated the image (which also seems to have shrunk from the one that I uploaded). I'll probably do a revised version soon.

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  5. Theodric the ObscureJanuary 18, 2012 at 8:09 PM

    Yeah! Telecanter + Matt definitely equals a dream team, in my book. (The beginnings of a dream team? A dream duo? Yeah, let's not over-analyze: you get the point.)

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  6. Adam DicksteinJanuary 19, 2012 at 6:04 AM

    Nice but damn, D&D dragons and giants are small!

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  7. JDJarvisJanuary 19, 2012 at 7:22 AM

    Cool chart. That's one darned big deer.

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  8. John Matthew StaterJanuary 19, 2012 at 7:32 AM

    I finally got to consult my AD&D Monster Manual - I'll put a revision in a bit. The dragon got bigger (I was basing it on the size categories in 3E) and so did the frost giant.

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  9. TelecanterJanuary 19, 2012 at 8:19 AM

    That is really well done. I like how you've got the sea creatures below, the various ranks of different greys, and little touches like the pixie hovering above the rhino like an oxpecker.

    I hoped people would do things with the sils, but this is really more than I expected and cheered me up. Bravo!

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  10. John Matthew StaterJanuary 19, 2012 at 8:30 AM

    You did 90% of the work Telecanter - I just dropped your work into an excel document and sized it. If you make any more silhouettes, I'll try to add them to the chart.

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  11. Joshua MacyJanuary 19, 2012 at 8:40 AM

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  12. Joshua MacyJanuary 19, 2012 at 8:41 AM

    Nice! Would it be too much trouble to post a link to it somewhere in an even larger size? These old eyes have a bit of difficulty reading the text (I can blow it up myself, but then it's pixelated...)

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  13. John Matthew StaterJanuary 19, 2012 at 8:43 AM

    I shall do exactly that. Stay tuned!

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  14. LasgunpackerJanuary 19, 2012 at 9:59 AM

    Very cool, and comprehensive, much more so than my limited efforts in that regard.

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  15. John Matthew StaterJanuary 19, 2012 at 10:48 AM

    Lasgunpacker - You're table looks great. I'm going to use something similar in Blood and Treasure.

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  16. LasgunpackerJanuary 19, 2012 at 11:11 AM

    Thanks! It was inspired by Roger's. I just tried to combine everything into one chart, and limit things to what exists in my world.

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  17. scrap princessJanuary 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM

    this is grand!

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  18. NationJanuary 19, 2012 at 8:43 PM

    Oh. My. God.

    This may be the coolest thing I've seen in months...

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  19. Old GuyJanuary 19, 2012 at 11:11 PM

    Awesome!

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  20. garrisonjamesJanuary 20, 2012 at 4:14 PM

    This is really cool. Did you say that you did this in Excel?
    It looks phenomenal.

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  21. John Matthew StaterJanuary 20, 2012 at 4:33 PM

    Yes sir - I do a surprising amount of "graphics" work in excel. Excellent for laying things out, making colors transparent, etc. and then copy pasting into Paint.

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  22. JohnMarch 21, 2016 at 5:32 PM

    A good start, but a couple tweaks needed :

    1) Griffons carry off horses, and Wyverns are smaller. The Griffon and Wyvern sizes should be reversed.
    2) Dragons come in a wide range of sizes. The dragon you have indicates small-medium size (6-20 HD) but larger ones are much larger.
    3) Too many types of bears are not needed. Instead, have three dragon sizes (small, medium, large), as per point 2) above.
    4) Order the creatures from smallest to largest, rather than randomly.
    5) Notable omissions include the troll, ettin, cyclops, elemental (whatever element), manticore, chimera, basilisk, etc. A few golems are also needed (bone, bronze, iron). In general, more humanoids, fewer animals (there are THREE bears here!).

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