Talk:Ettin

Deletion
I checked the MM and deleted the copied text. Better that this be a stub until we have a better summary, right?Wanderscribe (talk) 17:35, February 11, 2013 (UTC)


 * Good work, Wander... the page has been cleaned :) Darkwynters (talk) 17:59, February 11, 2013 (UTC)

Height-weight proportion
On an unrelated note, the weight given in the Monster Manual is ridiculously bad. At 13 feet tall, 5200 lbs is proportional to a 5-foot-9 human weighing over 1,000 lbs. A 13 foot tall human would weigh about 700 (female) to 850 (male) lbs. Just sayin. :P Wanderscribe (talk) 17:44, February 11, 2013 (UTC)


 * How do you figure? A 13-foot-tall human would be 2.26 times taller than a 5'9" human, so his or her volume and mass would likely be 11.56 times larger (2.26 cubed), so the weight could easily be in the couple thousands, assuming a 5'9" male weighing 170 lbs. A heavy male human&mdash;such as a wrestler&mdash;can easily weigh 250 pounds, and this would take us up to almost 3,000 pounds. All of this assumes a human physiology, but giants are not humans and have super strong muscles and denser bodies. Ettins also have two heads, and heads are one of the heaviest parts of a body.


 * As a rule, 3e did a much better job with creature weights as far as making them realistic. 2e had a male ettin at between 940 and 1,030 pounds, but this is far too light to be physically believable.


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 20:55, November 19, 2016 (UTC)


 * Returning to this years later: the tallest human ever was just short of 9 feet tall. He weighed 440 pounds—at his death—and he was very lanky and thin. His maximum weight was 491 pounds. That's about 1.5 times my height but 3.1 times my mass. I hope that you can see that your 850 pound human figure doesn't follow the pattern. ~ Lhynard (talk) 19:10, July 30, 2020 (UTC)