How large is Large?

[mistergone]

Okay, the answer should be obvious, and easy to find, and yet, here I am without a definitive answer. What is the height range of a size Large creature? What's the minimum height for Large? What's the maximum?

 

[shilsen]

Monster Manual, pg. 5.

Height: 8 ft.-16 ft.

Wt: 500 lb. - 4,000 lb.

 

[mistergone]

thanks. Wow, that seems like a big range.

 

[AuraSeer]

thanks. Wow, that seems like a big range.

The range increases for the bigger categories. There's a significant difference between a 3' halfling and a 6' human, but a 12' troll is almost the same as a 15' troll. By the time you get to Colossal creatures, a difference of a few feet is unnoticeable.

The range for weight seems bigger because weight increases with the cube of size. (If you have two cubes of iron, one 1' on a side and the other 2' on a side, the bigger one weighs eight times as much.)