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<blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8259038" data-attributes="member: 3457">So I wouldn't call the Reaper Fire Giant Queen a &quot;huge&quot; scale figure. She is towards the upper end of the large scale. Comparing sizes across companies is an exercise in frustration when it comes to anything outside of current standards. Some of the Reaper giants were metal molds from 3e era and they own a Pathfinder license so they tend to conform to 3e era scales.That said, I totally agree it had nothing to do with miniatures as WOTC doesn't produce minis and hadn't for a while when 5e came out. I recall somewhere the designers of 5e discussing the increase in giant sizes to make them suitably more epic in size because the older edition giants were small. Personally I think scale creep plays a huge part as well. Back when 3.5 came out and WOTC standardized it to miniature play they started putting everything into square bases so a regular sized horse went from a space of 2x1 to 2x2. Some creatures got larger in order to fill out that 2x2 and higher base size so monster sizes started creeping upward on the base. It comes off as cartoonish to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="teitan, post: 8259038, member: 3457"] So I wouldn't call the Reaper Fire Giant Queen a "huge" scale figure. She is towards the upper end of the large scale. Comparing sizes across companies is an exercise in frustration when it comes to anything outside of current standards. Some of the Reaper giants were metal molds from 3e era and they own a Pathfinder license so they tend to conform to 3e era scales. That said, I totally agree it had nothing to do with miniatures as WOTC doesn't produce minis and hadn't for a while when 5e came out. I recall somewhere the designers of 5e discussing the increase in giant sizes to make them suitably more epic in size because the older edition giants were small. Personally I think scale creep plays a huge part as well. Back when 3.5 came out and WOTC standardized it to miniature play they started putting everything into square bases so a regular sized horse went from a space of 2x1 to 2x2. Some creatures got larger in order to fill out that 2x2 and higher base size so monster sizes started creeping upward on the base. It comes off as cartoonish to me. [/QUOTE]

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