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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 832071" data-attributes="member: 3051">MooooooooooooFair point, but each category roughly corresponds to a large change in size (at least a quadrupling in mass, usually far more).  A Colossal Great Red Wyrm's footprint is 40'x80', with 15' reach.  No matter how you define these sizes, that dragon has to be hundreds of times as large as a Medium-sized person (and in fact, it should be substantially more considering it fills squares instead of just occupying them; a man doesn't fill a 5'x5' square, he just comfortably occupies it).  So, in the course of fighting that Dragon, you destroyed 99.9% or more of its skin to the point where you couldn't even make a patchwork quilt?  It's just too much to say that out of the entire dragon's body, you can only scrape up enough intact scales to cover one Medium person's torso.I mean, Indians could skin a buffalo without damaging it too much, and they weren't exactly using slaughterhouse techniques for clean kills.Ooh, another idea: since the Dragon is now dead, wouldn't a Mend or Make Whole type of spell repair the scales?I'd say +2 sizes for hard materials (scales, etc., that don't cover the monster's entire body), +1 size for soft stuff like hide, with another +1 size to each if the creature has both.  A single cow (large) should provide enough leather for one Human or two Halflings.  A Great Red Wyrm (colossal) should provide enough scales for 2 Humans AND enough dragonhide to make leather armor for 4 more.  Or something like that.</blockquote>

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