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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7113870" data-attributes="member: 6787650">For parsimony's sake, I like to keep my mechanical changes to 5E relatively few and elegant, so when I make a change it's more likely to be to a rule than to a stat block. You get more bang for your buck that way.Therefore, I use MM stats for giants. If I were writing my own stats for giants I probably would scale them up a bit, probably giving logarithmic increases in movement speed due to having longer pendulums for legs. (Hmmm, that actually jives pretty well with MM stats after all, e.g. Frost Giants have 40' move, and Storm Giants have 50' move.)In any case, falling damage scales up due to the physics of falling; walking speed scales differently due to the physics of walking. By doubling the falling damage, what I'm really doing is saying &quot;you have to absorb eight times the kinetic energy, but D&amp;D tropes and the fact that you aren't debiliated by the square-cube law imply that your basic physiological frame is roughly twice as strong as a human's, pound for pound, so call it effectively twice the kinetic energy; and damage is kinda sorta the square root of kinetic energy, so that means you take double damage from falling.&quot; But it would be silly to assume that having legs three times as long makes you walk four times as fast--it would really only be 1.73 times as fast (because sqrt(3) = 1.73), and 30' * 1.73 = 51.9, so I find 5E's numbers of giant movement rates to be adequate. (The slow movement speeds for quadrupeds and fliers in 5E bug me a lot more, and may be houseruled at some point, but that has nothing to do with them being larger.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7113870, member: 6787650"] For parsimony's sake, I like to keep my mechanical changes to 5E relatively few and elegant, so when I make a change it's more likely to be to a rule than to a stat block. You get more bang for your buck that way. Therefore, I use MM stats for giants. If I were writing my own stats for giants I probably [I]would[/I] scale them up a bit, probably giving logarithmic increases in movement speed due to having longer pendulums for legs. (Hmmm, that actually jives pretty well with MM stats after all, e.g. Frost Giants have 40' move, and Storm Giants have 50' move.) In any case, falling damage scales up due to the physics of falling; walking speed scales differently due to the physics of walking. By doubling the falling damage, what I'm really doing is saying "you have to absorb eight times the kinetic energy, but D&D tropes and the fact that you aren't debiliated by the square-cube law imply that your basic physiological frame is roughly twice as strong as a human's, pound for pound, so call it effectively twice the kinetic energy; and damage is kinda sorta the square root of kinetic energy, so that means you take double damage from falling." But it would be silly to assume that having legs three times as long makes you walk four times as fast--it would really only be 1.73 times as fast (because sqrt(3) = 1.73), and 30' * 1.73 = 51.9, so I find 5E's numbers of giant movement rates to be adequate. (The slow movement speeds for quadrupeds and fliers in 5E bug me a lot more, and may be houseruled at some point, but that has nothing to do with them being [I]larger[/I].) [/QUOTE]

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