Rules say "huge" - which means they cover a 15' square space... but presumbaly not a 15' cubed space - assuming they take up 15' square floor space while 'standing' as they do in the stat block picture - would they be 25'-30' tall while reared up like that? And in that case... would they be like 70' or 80' long when uncoiled, head to tail length?
Checking online, the Yuan-Ti Anathema figurine from WizKids (which is in basically the same stance as in the illustration) is described by several sources as 79mm tall. WizKids uses 28mm scale, or about 5mm = 1'.
I may be wrong here, but I don’t believe there’s any RAW on the vertical dimension. However, a lot rules turn into a mess when you start looking at things in 3D instead of just 2D. Flying and swimming just create headaches. For simplicity sake, I just turn everything into a cube. Does this mean a 2.5’ tall halfling can attack something 9.5’ off the ground? Yes. Does it mean that a 8’ Goliath who sticks halfway into the next vertical square isn’t actually in that square at all? Yes. Does any of it make logical sense? No. But sometimes, you just need to let it be a game. Getting too deep into how much space something occupies; that way lies madness.
I would compare it to other creatures that are also huge and that have confirmed heights, the Storm giant being 25-30 feet tall and is also huge, so we can assume the Anathema is also around that size. As for length, I know this might be kinda weird considering Anathema’s are semi humanoid but some snakes can rear up to a third of their bodies off the ground, so an Anathema I would say would, as you said, be around 80-85 feet long, if not a bit longer. Of course this might not make any sense because I could be missing something, but thats just how my brain interprets this. So yeah, your measurements seem pretty spot on.
Thank you all - (posted that question pretty late last night & glad to have some answers when I woke up! - presume you're all from other timezones than UK or that DMs all tend to do their D&D research in the middle of the night!)
I was trying to get a feel for the creature & how to describe it to the players, rather than worrying exactly what space it would occupy, so wanted to sense check my 80' assumption wouldn't push the boundaries of what the monster is. These are all very helpful responses - cheers!
Using the hill giant, that could give a vertical height of 16 ft and a full length of 48 ft. From Wikipedia, the longest estimate of Titanoboa, the prehistoric snake, was 47 ft, so definitely “huge” but not implausible. (Because gigantic multi-headed snake monsters with arms need to be plausible…)
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Just how big are Yuan-ti Anathema?
Rules say "huge" - which means they cover a 15' square space... but presumbaly not a 15' cubed space - assuming they take up 15' square floor space while 'standing' as they do in the stat block picture - would they be 25'-30' tall while reared up like that? And in that case... would they be like 70' or 80' long when uncoiled, head to tail length?
Checking online, the Yuan-Ti Anathema figurine from WizKids (which is in basically the same stance as in the illustration) is described by several sources as 79mm tall. WizKids uses 28mm scale, or about 5mm = 1'.
I may be wrong here, but I don’t believe there’s any RAW on the vertical dimension. However, a lot rules turn into a mess when you start looking at things in 3D instead of just 2D. Flying and swimming just create headaches. For simplicity sake, I just turn everything into a cube. Does this mean a 2.5’ tall halfling can attack something 9.5’ off the ground? Yes. Does it mean that a 8’ Goliath who sticks halfway into the next vertical square isn’t actually in that square at all? Yes. Does any of it make logical sense? No. But sometimes, you just need to let it be a game. Getting too deep into how much space something occupies; that way lies madness.
I would compare it to other creatures that are also huge and that have confirmed heights, the Storm giant being 25-30 feet tall and is also huge, so we can assume the Anathema is also around that size. As for length, I know this might be kinda weird considering Anathema’s are semi humanoid but some snakes can rear up to a third of their bodies off the ground, so an Anathema I would say would, as you said, be around 80-85 feet long, if not a bit longer. Of course this might not make any sense because I could be missing something, but thats just how my brain interprets this. So yeah, your measurements seem pretty spot on.
Thank you all - (posted that question pretty late last night & glad to have some answers when I woke up! - presume you're all from other timezones than UK or that DMs all tend to do their D&D research in the middle of the night!)
I was trying to get a feel for the creature & how to describe it to the players, rather than worrying exactly what space it would occupy, so wanted to sense check my 80' assumption wouldn't push the boundaries of what the monster is. These are all very helpful responses - cheers!
Using the hill giant, that could give a vertical height of 16 ft and a full length of 48 ft. From Wikipedia, the longest estimate of Titanoboa, the prehistoric snake, was 47 ft, so definitely “huge” but not implausible. (Because gigantic multi-headed snake monsters with arms need to be plausible…)