Giants do not actually break the square-cube law, just like you can build a building much bigger then a Giant that does not collapse under its own weight.
[PF2] Legendary or Magical
Giants do not actually break the square-cube law, just like you can build a building much bigger then a Giant that does not collapse under its own weight.
jhingelshod
Explorer
True, but only by radically changing the design and materials. No-one builds skyscrapers from bricks and breezeblocks.
A 12' giant puts twice as much force per unit area through it's legs and knees as a 6' human if it retains human proportions, an 18' giant three times the force.
A 12' giant puts twice as much force per unit area through it's legs and knees as a 6' human if it retains human proportions, an 18' giant three times the force.
Tony Vargas
Legend
It's not like the fall's gonna kill him...
Tony Vargas
Legend
Babe Ruth and Jimi Hendrix are both legends, and the skills that made them legendary are very well-documented, indeed.
Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
That ultra realistic hit points concept strikes again.
Celebrim
Legend
English is tricky like that. We are both correct, but even though we used the word 'legend', we each used a word with a completely different meaning which a computer would have to store separately. The definition I gave accords with the first sense of the word legend, but the definition you used accords with the second sense of the word legend. They might as well be separate words for as much as they have in common.
Tony Vargas
Legend
So, in which sense do you think the word choice in the context of PF2 skills/feats was meant? 'Undocumented rumor' or 'superlative ability?'
What do you mean radically changing materials? If you are assuming that a Giant is made out of the same materials as a Human then why?
Yaarel
He Mage
Regarding the word ‘legend’.
• ‘myth’ is strictly about cosmic paradigms
• ‘history’ is strictly about human events
• ‘legend’ is a weird threshold between the two, where humans interact with mythic forces
For example, King Arthur is a ‘legend’, being a quasi-historical person who interacts with the mythic Holy Grail, the faerie Lady of the Lake, and so on.
By extension, a famous celebrity is sometimes called a ‘legend’, as if this human is taking on mythic cosmic proportions.
‘Legendary’ is when a human engages the mythic.
‘Legendary’ is the same thing as ‘magic’.
Just like Excalibur is a legendary sword and a magic sword.
• ‘myth’ is strictly about cosmic paradigms
• ‘history’ is strictly about human events
• ‘legend’ is a weird threshold between the two, where humans interact with mythic forces
For example, King Arthur is a ‘legend’, being a quasi-historical person who interacts with the mythic Holy Grail, the faerie Lady of the Lake, and so on.
By extension, a famous celebrity is sometimes called a ‘legend’, as if this human is taking on mythic cosmic proportions.
‘Legendary’ is when a human engages the mythic.
‘Legendary’ is the same thing as ‘magic’.
Just like Excalibur is a legendary sword and a magic sword.
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