Size Modifier/Attributes

[Htoad2020]

I'm looking for a table or calculations to take the Attributes and DR etc... from a +3 Size Modifier (or lager) and making it -7 Size Modifier (or smaller) let alone smaller to larger.
Thank you for your help.

[Kelly Pedersen]

Are you asking about re-scaling a living creature? A machine? Some details would be helpful here.

If you're asking about doing this with a living being, Bio-Tech has some rules for re-scaling biological organisms, at least ones based on roughly human physiology. That will get you attributes, though I don't think they cover DR. DR is hard to do anyway, because quite a lot of it is going to depend, not on size, but just whatever the armor is made of - a SM -7 turtle might have DR 1 or 2 still, whereas an SM +3 elephant reduced to SM -7 could quite easily have no DR to speak of.

[Htoad2020]

Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen

Are you asking about re-scaling a living creature? A machine? Some details would be helpful here.

If you're asking about doing this with a living being, Bio-Tech has some rules for re-scaling biological organisms, at least ones based on roughly human physiology. That will get you attributes, though I don't think they cover DR. DR is hard to do anyway, because quite a lot of it is going to depend, not on size, but just whatever the armor is made of - a SM -7 turtle might have DR 1 or 2 still, whereas an SM +3 elephant reduced to SM -7 could quite easily have no DR to speak of.

I've converted 36 AD&D Dragons now I want to make them smaller. SM -7

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by Htoad2020

I'm looking for a table or calculations to take the Attributes and DR etc... from a +3 Size Modifier (or lager) and making it -7 Size Modifier (or smaller) let alone smaller to larger.

Try GURPS GULLIVER Mini for 4e.

[Htoad2020]

Originally Posted by Rasputin

Try GURPS GULLIVER Mini for 4e.

This is for humaniods not dragons and it just for ST, HT and DR I need it in DX, IQ and hit points plus movement.

[ravenfish]

Originally Posted by Htoad2020

This is for humaniods not dragons and it just for ST, HT and DR I need it in DX, IQ and hit points plus movement.

Hit points, being based on strength, will scale in the same manner as strength.

Dex and IQ do not really scale.

From our experience with actual animals, intelligence does not depend too greatly on size. The size of a brain required for a given level of behavioral complexity seems to scale as roughly a .75 power of body size, but, in general, animals will tend to have evolved brains about as large as they need (and no larger), so larger dragons (or whatever) will tend to have about the same IQ stat as smaller ones, but manage to do so with brains that take up a somewhat lower proportion of their total body mass.

There is a stereotype correlating large size with low dexterity, but I am not convinced that reality backs that up. The elephant, quite apart from the remarkable "manual" dexterity with which it maneuvers its trunk, is certainly no klutz in its gross movements.

[Cowrie]

Originally Posted by Htoad2020

This is for humaniods not dragons and it just for ST, HT and DR I need it in DX, IQ and hit points plus movement.

It applies to all creatures, not just humanoids. Look at the sections Notes on nonhumanoids and Working backward to apply it to dragons. As far as DX and movement, that's in the Optional Extras. As stated above HP scale with ST, which is even stated in step 4. It also says to use the rules in Biotech for altering IQ based on size, but I agree with ravenfish that there isn't really any correlation. For RL animal examples, a wood turtle is smarter than a snapping turtle or giant tortoise, despite being smaller, and a corvid like a raven or magpie is much more intelligent than an ostrich.

[Anthony]

While a larger creature can fit more brain power, there's no strong reason to think it will actually do so, and in any case since you're converting magical beasts mundane scaling laws are of limited relevance.

On the issue of DX, a large creature will have larger manipulators, and will thus have issues with manipulating small objects. It will also take somewhat longer to perform any given action. It's not clear that this is best implemented as DX, though.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Anthony

While a larger creature can fit more brain power, there's no strong reason to think it will actually do so, and in any case since you're converting magical beasts mundane scaling laws are of limited relevance.

On the issue of DX, a large creature will have larger manipulators, and will thus have issues with manipulating small objects. It will also take somewhat longer to perform any given action. It's not clear that this is best implemented as DX, though.

Type of brain matters even more than size. Look at parrots capable of rudimentary language far more advanced that any ape save man. Bird brains pack far more intelligence into a set volume than primates', and both pack in far more than carnivora order's, etc.

[Htoad2020]

Originally Posted by Cowrie

It also says to use the rules in Biotech for altering IQ based on size,

I need it at -6 or -7 SM and thank you.