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<blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 3191149" data-attributes="member: 141">How many hit points does a 10-ft. cube of stone have?&nbsp; How does this scale for larger shapes?I'm sure this involves construct bonus hit points and VSCs somehow, but I don't recall the details. Also- how much damage does a block do when it falls on someone?&nbsp; Or when it is gently lowered on someone.&nbsp; I remember there being some controversy over this, but I don't recall how it turned out.[edit]I have a 10-ft. cube of stone weighing about 30 tons (62 thousand pounds).&nbsp; Does that sound about right?&nbsp; In which case it would count as a a Gargantuan creature, and should get a construct hit point bonus of 80 (the MM says 60, but the golems in the Bestiary use a different convention).&nbsp; So 80 hp for a 10-ft. block of stone?&nbsp; A 20-ft. block would have 120 hp, a 40-ft. block would have 160 hp, and so on.Unless I've totally misunderstood something.Hmm. The earth weighs 5.97 x 10^24 kilograms, which is 6.5 x 10^21 tons. I get... 193 thousand hit points for the earth?&nbsp; [edit] That was with logarithms.&nbsp; Using UK's tables it is more like 160 000 hit points.&nbsp; i.e. 10 size categories is a billion-fold increase, so the earth is 20 size categories more than a 6.5&nbsp; kilo-ton object which is Titanic, and has 160 hp. Every two size categories doubles the construct bonus, so that's 10 doublings; about 1000 times as much.But I see in another thread that the earth should have only about 100,000 hit points.&nbsp; And the moon, which weighs 1/81 as much, should have around 60,000.&nbsp; It should be a little less than half the hit points of the earth, if calculated in this way; reducing the weight by 64 should halve the hit points.&nbsp; Hmmm.&nbsp; Close enough.&nbsp; I think.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cheiromancer, post: 3191149, member: 141"] How many hit points does a 10-ft. cube of stone have? How does this scale for larger shapes? I'm sure this involves construct bonus hit points and VSCs somehow, but I don't recall the details. Also- how much damage does a block do when it falls on someone? Or when it is gently lowered on someone. I remember there being some controversy over this, but I don't recall how it turned out. [edit]I have a 10-ft. cube of stone weighing about 30 tons (62 thousand pounds). Does that sound about right? In which case it would count as a a Gargantuan creature, and should get a construct hit point bonus of 80 (the MM says 60, but the golems in the Bestiary use a different convention). So 80 hp for a 10-ft. block of stone? A 20-ft. block would have 120 hp, a 40-ft. block would have 160 hp, and so on. Unless I've totally misunderstood something. Hmm. The earth weighs 5.97 x 10^24 kilograms, which is 6.5 x 10^21 tons. I get... 193 thousand hit points for the earth? [edit] That was with logarithms. Using UK's tables it is more like 160 000 hit points. i.e. 10 size categories is a billion-fold increase, so the earth is 20 size categories more than a 6.5 kilo-ton object which is Titanic, and has 160 hp. Every two size categories doubles the construct bonus, so that's 10 doublings; about 1000 times as much. But I see in another thread that the earth should have only about 100,000 hit points. And the moon, which weighs 1/81 as much, should have around 60,000. It should be a little less than half the hit points of the earth, if calculated in this way; reducing the weight by 64 should halve the hit points. Hmmm. Close enough. I think. [/QUOTE]

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