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Message: <blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 6942581" data-attributes="member: 12377">Oh, that's really interesting. (Except that 60 feet would be 21d6; these are the triangular numbers.) A similar rule that might be easier to articulate is 1d6 for 10 feet, doubling the number of dice for each additional 10 feet (20 feet = 2d6, 30 feet = 4d6, 40 feet = 8d6, 50 feet = 16d6, 60 feet = 32d6, etc.).I don't see why we put a cap on falling damage or why we ever have. If we're going to cap it, shouldn't it be related to terminal velocity? A human in air reaches terminal velocity at around 1500 feet. That's 150d6 using the PHB system or about 1,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000d6 using the exponential system I proposed above. Of course it's only 11,325d6 using Gygax's original system of triangular numbers.Larger creatures generally have a higher terminal velocity, and smaller creatures have a lower terminal velocity. This is proportional to the creature's mass and cross-sectional area. Since mass grows cubically with size and cross-sectional area grows with the square of size, each D&D size increase should roughly double terminal velocity, and each size decrease should halve it.Thus, using the simplistic PHB falling damage (1d6 per 10 feet), we have the following:Size: Max Falling Damage (average damage)Tiny: 37d6 (129)Small: 75d6 (262)Medium: 150d6 (525)Large: 300d6 (1,050)Huge: 600d6 (2,100)Gargantuan: 1,200d6 (4,200)</blockquote>