D&D 5E Huge Constrictor Snake - Just how HUGE is it?

[JiffyPopTart]

So, in last nights adventure the druid shapechanged into a Huge (as in size of the base, not a generic descriptor) constrictor snake.

We were having a hard time wrapping our minds around exactly how large a snake this might be. I put my best guess as it being roughly 40-50 feet long, with the huge base representing the snake being coiled up not stretched out in a line.

What say you, huddled masses of ENWorld?

 

[Jeff Albertson]

The giant, and large, and giant, and large, and huge, and giant, has been hilarious since 3rd Ed.

 

[Tormyr]

The base represents the space the creature controls, not necessarily how big it is. Think green anaconda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunectes_murinus

 

[Paraxis]

For visual aid purposes.

[video=youtube;ijXLPE7SB3c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijXLPE7SB3c[/video]

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

So, in last nights adventure the druid shapechanged into a Huge (as in size of the base, not a generic descriptor) constrictor snake.

We were having a hard time wrapping our minds around exactly how large a snake this might be. I put my best guess as it being roughly 40-50 feet long, with the huge base representing the snake being coiled up not stretched out in a line.

What say you, huddled masses of ENWorld?

I was thinking about this recently for similar reasons. I see a giant anaconda as Large, so a Giant Constrictor Snake will be fantasy large: a head as large as a horse's head, and a body as thick as a man's torso, like something out of a movie. Sixty feet long. Weighs over a ton. If the druid wants to uncoil, I'd let him be ten squares long.

 

[Sacrosanct]

My Anaconda don't want none

 

[Mouseferatu]

My Anaconda don't want none

https://44dinner.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/hot-dog-buns-sliced.jpg

 

[Sunseeker]

I have always been under the impression that the "size" of a creature represented the total number of squares a creature filled in a 3D space. I liked some of the older editions that had a few monsters noted as "tall" or "long" so that it was more easily represented that they were 1x2x3 or 3x2x1.

A large creature is 2x2x2, for a total of 8 squares. A "long" creature might be 1x1x8. I think most snakes would fit into this category. Using 3D representation over 2D representation I feel helps visualize monsters as more than flat tokens.

 

[The Grassy Gnoll]

"What are you doing, darling?"
"I'm on an online forum where a bunch of guys are discussing how big their snakes are."
"...."

 

[Eejit]

Makes you "WOOOOO!"