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<blockquote data-quote="harpy" data-source="post: 4991066" data-attributes="member: 85243">Whether it is 3.5, Pathfinder or 4E all of these systems have fixed damage dice for falling, 1d6 per 10 feet for 3.5/PF or 1d10 per 10 feet for 4E.It's fine and simple.&nbsp; It assumes that PCs are medium or small creatures and so their mass is close enough that when they fall they take an amount of damage that is fairly comparable.&nbsp; The rules are really intended to see what happens to PCs most of the time, rather than seeing what happens when bigger or small creatures fall.However, when it comes to weapons then the &quot;physics engine&quot; kicks in a bit more (Force x Mass = Momentum) and suddenly the mass of the weapon becomes important, and so we have die steps keyed to the size of the creature.&nbsp; It's a bit more fussy and detailed, but since the main point of D&amp;D is to conduct combat then this level of granularity is generally desired.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now if you wanted to extend the physics engine a bit more and didn't mind that extra little bit of information to keep track of it seems rather simple and realistic to key falling damage to die steps based on size.&nbsp; Something like:3.5/PFFine 1Diminutive 1d2Tiny 1d3Small 1d4Medium 1d6Large 1d8Huge 1d10Gargantuan 1d12&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Colossal 2d64EFine 1d2 (I think they got rid of this size?)Diminutive 1d3Tiny 1d4Small 1d6Medium 1d10Large 1d12Huge 2d6Gargantuan 2d8&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Colossal 3d6Does this sound right?&nbsp; Or at least not game breaking?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="harpy, post: 4991066, member: 85243"] Whether it is 3.5, Pathfinder or 4E all of these systems have fixed damage dice for falling, 1d6 per 10 feet for 3.5/PF or 1d10 per 10 feet for 4E. It's fine and simple. It assumes that PCs are medium or small creatures and so their mass is close enough that when they fall they take an amount of damage that is fairly comparable. The rules are really intended to see what happens to PCs most of the time, rather than seeing what happens when bigger or small creatures fall. However, when it comes to weapons then the "physics engine" kicks in a bit more (Force x Mass = Momentum) and suddenly the mass of the weapon becomes important, and so we have die steps keyed to the size of the creature. It's a bit more fussy and detailed, but since the main point of D&D is to conduct combat then this level of granularity is generally desired. Now if you wanted to extend the physics engine a bit more and didn't mind that extra little bit of information to keep track of it seems rather simple and realistic to key falling damage to die steps based on size. Something like: 3.5/PF Fine 1 Diminutive 1d2 Tiny 1d3 Small 1d4 Medium 1d6 Large 1d8 Huge 1d10 Gargantuan 1d12 Colossal 2d6 4E Fine 1d2 (I think they got rid of this size?) Diminutive 1d3 Tiny 1d4 Small 1d6 Medium 1d10 Large 1d12 Huge 2d6 Gargantuan 2d8 Colossal 3d6 Does this sound right? Or at least not game breaking? [/QUOTE]

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