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<blockquote data-quote="Khayman" data-source="post: 1846446" data-attributes="member: 17051"><p>In the real world, any increase in height results in volume increasing by a cube of that change. So, (assuming the density remains the same) if you are a 6 foot tall 200 lb human and you suddenly doubled in height to 12 feet, you should weigh in at a dainty 1600 lb (2x2x2 x200). </p><p></p><p><em>However</em>, if the increase is natural --- say the result of evolution or breeding or another biological change --- certain body proportions tend to change proportionately, which may alter the end weight by a fraction. Doubling the height of a creature generally requires a fourfold increase in support area, so giants would tend to have big feet. There are similar increases in the size of the feeding apparatus, thus the big guts and huge jaws you see in ogres and hill giants. (Apparently storm giants do more sit ups.)</p><p></p><p>This assumes real-world physiology and physics are at work. Weird results could occur due to differences in tissue density (eg, dwarves, genasi, warforged), dimensional shunting of mass, and so forth. In reality, tissue density will increase as a structural response to increased load. Certain creatures, such as sauropds, got around drawbacks of high local mass by having hollowed-out vertebrae and the like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Khayman, post: 1846446, member: 17051"] In the real world, any increase in height results in volume increasing by a cube of that change. So, (assuming the density remains the same) if you are a 6 foot tall 200 lb human and you suddenly doubled in height to 12 feet, you should weigh in at a dainty 1600 lb (2x2x2 x200). [I]However[/I], if the increase is natural --- say the result of evolution or breeding or another biological change --- certain body proportions tend to change proportionately, which may alter the end weight by a fraction. Doubling the height of a creature generally requires a fourfold increase in support area, so giants would tend to have big feet. There are similar increases in the size of the feeding apparatus, thus the big guts and huge jaws you see in ogres and hill giants. (Apparently storm giants do more sit ups.) This assumes real-world physiology and physics are at work. Weird results could occur due to differences in tissue density (eg, dwarves, genasi, warforged), dimensional shunting of mass, and so forth. In reality, tissue density will increase as a structural response to increased load. Certain creatures, such as sauropds, got around drawbacks of high local mass by having hollowed-out vertebrae and the like. [/QUOTE]
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