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<blockquote data-quote="dcollins" data-source="post: 96852" data-attributes="member: 876">I'm afraid I can't totally agree with your analysis, KD.This is not true. Mass increases by a cube function, but strength only increases by a square function. Hence doubling height does make a creature x8 as massive, but naturally it should be only x4 as strong. (Hence the real-life phenomena of apparently super-string ants and big fat whales that couldn't possibly be mobile on land even if they had legs.)Let's say you increase a (Str12) human's height by x2, increasing the size category. Then, they should be 12 ft., about 1,600 pounds, and x4 as strong. Add the averaged category strength increase (per my linked website, above) of +5. Then modify by the &quot;large&quot; lifting modifier which you mention (doubling it). End result: their lifting capacity is indeed x4 what it was to begin with, in compliance with normal physics.What you have demonstrated is that giants are abnormally, unnaturally strong for their height. (Which is easily rationalized by assuming some non-human or magical physiology.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dcollins, post: 96852, member: 876"] I'm afraid I can't totally agree with your analysis, KD. This is not true. Mass increases by a cube function, but strength only increases by a square function. Hence doubling height does make a creature x8 as massive, but naturally it should be only x4 as strong. (Hence the real-life phenomena of apparently super-string ants and big fat whales that couldn't possibly be mobile on land even if they had legs.) Let's say you increase a (Str12) human's height by x2, increasing the size category. Then, they should be 12 ft., about 1,600 pounds, and x4 as strong. Add the averaged category strength increase (per my linked website, above) of +5. Then modify by the "large" lifting modifier which you mention (doubling it). End result: their lifting capacity is indeed x4 what it was to begin with, in compliance with normal physics. What you have demonstrated is that giants are abnormally, unnaturally strong for their height. (Which is easily rationalized by assuming some non-human or magical physiology.) [/QUOTE]

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