GURPS 3e Size to 4e?

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by Kuroshima

No, don't get me wrong. I'm not asking for "SM+X creatures take Y hexes". I'm asking for individual creature writeups to state how many hexes they take. For example, I would love if DF: Monsters included that information.

The problem with the 3e Size statistic is that it just said "14 hexes" and gave you no information about whether it's 14 hexes long by 1 hex wide, 12 hexes long with a 2x2 hex area in the middle, or 6 hexes long with the rest smashed around the axis into a fat oval blob (like the elephant). It's just "14 hexes".

Most people are familiar enough with elephants to figure they shouldn't be 14 hexes long by 1 hex wide. With something prehistoric or purely invented, it's a lot less intuitive, and it's always been ambiguous whether things like a brachiosaurus (or a python or a serpentine dragon) should have it's neck and tail in the pool of hexes, or just the body.