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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cybern" data-source="post: 1380600" data-attributes="member: 13147">I don't want a math class - I already did enough of these already - but my math teachers always said that they were gonna be usefull someday...Here's my question:In normal situations, when you double the size of an object, you double all of its 3 dimensions, therefore its mass increase by x8 (2x2x2).So, x2H => x8Wand x1/2H => x1/8WThe height is then equal to the cubic root of the mass.A large weapon weights double its mass.  Using real world height/mass formula, the lenght can't be doubled too.  So, how tall is a large weapon?Lets say that a Medium Greatsword is 6' long and weights 8lb.  If a Large Greatsword weights 16lb, its height is x1.26 (the cubic root of the mass, rounded), or 7'7".  If the same is true for Huge Weapons, then a Huge Greatsword weights 32lb, and its height is x1.26x1.26 (x1.59), or 9'7". Are my maths ok?  They sound ok to me, but then a Huge creature wields a "relatively" smallish sword?  Should the rule be that Huge Weapons are larger (ex.: x8W instead of x4W, so about double the Height of a medium version) ?This ain't a critical issue for most games (and most people don't care), but I still want to know because of a situation that has happened some time ago in our game.  Thank you all for reading this far  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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