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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 9757308" data-attributes="member: 72555">One game I've played with dragon's in some heartbreaker fantasies is to make size a real impact on the game.Imagine a Kaiju factor.  This multiplies or divides all damage.We'll have it grow with the square of the size of the creature.Kaiju 5 is for Large creatures (~2x larger scale than humans; ~2x2).Kaiju 10 is for Huge creatures (~3x larger scale than humans; ~3x3).Kaiju 20 is for Guagantuon creatures (~4-6x larger scale than humans, ~5x5).Kaiju 50 and 100 are for even bigger ones. (~7-10x larger scale than humans; ~7x7 and ~10x10).We could even be generous and have "Kaiju" scale weapons be poor at hurting smaller scale targets, and only do 2x damage for every step smaller.  So a monster would be Kaiju 5x/2x, 10x/4x, 20x/8x, 50x/16x, 100x/32x; or more simply, just use the previous scale number (5x/2x, 10x/5x, 20x/10x, 50x/20x, 100x/50x).You'll still turn to a fine mist being hit by a Kaiju 100x foe.This might work in a game where PCs are expected to use fantasy mecha or something to fight "big" monsters.  Large enemies (5x/2x) (ie, ogre-scale) would be tough but doable without such mecha, while giant-scale starts looking ridiculous.A "baseline" basically trained foe at each scale:Human scale (1): 5 damage, 15 HP. - typical guardOgre scale (5): 10 damage, 75 HP.Giant Scale (10): 25 damage, 150 HP.Drake Scale (20): 50 damage, 300 HP.Dragon Scale (50): 100 damage, 750 HP.Titan Scale (100): 250 damage, 1500 HP.A difference would be that an attack dealing less than 100 damage would bounce off a Titan.Here, "specialized equipment" would be aimed at dealing damage at a larger scale.  A ballista might be a "5 Kaiju" scale heavy crossbow (1d10 damage [x5]), while a catapult a "20 Kaiju" scale sling (1d4 [x20]).</blockquote>

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