[RPG] What are the height (and weight) size ranges for each size category of creature

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Changelings have the ability to change their height and weight, but not so much they change a size category:

[…] You can also adjust your height and weight, but not so much that your size changes. […]

While they start out as a Medium creature, there is scope for them to be affected by something like Enlarge/Reduce, which would then enable them to change their height (and weight) to any size within that size category.

As a result, I'm looking for height (and weight) ranges for each size category in the game. (I've not been able to find such a chart)

If there isn't a size chart in 5e, answers from other editions are welcome.

Best Answer

While there doesn't appear to be a simple table in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition , there was one in the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide 2003, 29. Though it's not as necessary in 5e to have a 'rule for everything', size in 5e is almost exclusively defined by the space a creature takes up in combat. The rest of the dimensions, height, length, width, weight, et al. are left somewhat nebulous. For the changeling, one might start with the height and weight ranges for other medium humanoids, as far as those numbers exist as statistics, for example.

It may be helpful to use the table from the 3.5 DMG as a basis to start your descriptions and rulings from. Truncated below:

Size Category Maximum Height Max. Weight Space
Fine 6in. or less 1/8 Lb or less 1/2 ft.
Diminutive 1 ft. 1 Lb 1 ft.
Tiny 2 ft. 8 Lb 2 1/2 ft.
Small 4 ft. 60 Lb 5 ft.
Medium 8 ft. 500 Lb 5 ft.
Large 16 ft. 4000 Lb 10 ft.
Huge 32 ft 32000 Lb 15 ft.
Gargantuan 64 ft. 250000 Lb 20 ft.
Colossal 64 ft. or more 250000 Lb or more 30 ft.

Height is also length for 'long' rather than 'tall' creatures.

Weight is for creatures made of flesh.

Space is usually what is listed, but exceptions exist.

The linked SRD page (correctly) extrapolates the changes as minimums as well as maximums.


I view this as a good starting point for description and hammering my monsters to fit the scales of D&D.