D&D is a fantasy realm, the golem could weight 10 tons or it could be an empty animated shell weighing 5 pounds.
lol a very MST3K way of looking at things. But that's generally my opinion on most things... if you're not playing in Adventure League, the DM can pretty much rule whatever they want.
Iron is about 8 times as dense as water, human body is mostly water so take your 2400 / 8 = 300 which would be about a 7 foot male. Was your Golem taller then 7 feet?
Ogre are Large
Hill Giant Huge
to get an idea of scale. I would probably list large 10-12 feet tall?
MM has for area
Medium 5 by 5 ft. 6 feet tall Large 10 by 10 ft. 12 feet tall Huge 15 by 15 ft. 18 feet tall
so I guess Large is twice as tall as Medium and Huge is 3 times as tall as Medium.
The upper end of normal BMI for 6ft male is 177lbs.
Scaling up, using cube law, from 6 ft to 8 ft would mean a male with an upper scale BMI would be 419.5lbs.
Dividing by cubic ft weight of human, 64 lb, reveals this 8ft form has 6.55 cubic feet of volume.
Multiplying this 6.55 cubic feet of volume by the weight of iron shows us the total weight of 3,219 lbs for a humanoid shaped iron golem of 8 ft with the physique of a fit/lean human male. A more muscular built physique would be roughly 12% heavier (based on a bodybuilder weight of a 200lb 6ft male) and would end up at 3,637 lbs. A 5 ft wide 8 ft tall physique, as described, would be even heavier than this.
Fun Fact: This is the same weight as about 160k+ coins in D&D, and entirely too many players entirely ignore coin weight.
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I'm probably laughing.
It is apparently so hard to program Aberrant Mind and Clockwork Soul spell-swapping into dndbeyond they had to remake the game without it rather than implement it.
Attempting to determine the weight of the golem based on solid cubic iron is flawed, as I argued earlier, but I do think that the math on weight of a humanoid of X height at lean/average/muscular/obese is fascinating stuff! You should start a thread with those calculations over on tips and tricks, I alawys feel like I'm being arbitrary when I pick a weight for my characters, and that would be a really helpful reference!
Attempting to determine the weight of the golem based on solid cubic iron is flawed, as I argued earlier, but I do think that the math on weight of a humanoid of X height at lean/average/muscular/obese is fascinating stuff! You should start a thread with those calculations over on tips and tricks, I alawys feel like I'm being arbitrary when I pick a weight for my characters, and that would be a really helpful reference!
The PhB also has weight scales and dice rolls based off race that you can use too.
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lol a very MST3K way of looking at things. But that's generally my opinion on most things... if you're not playing in Adventure League, the DM can pretty much rule whatever they want.
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Iron is about 8 times as dense as water, human body is mostly water so take your 2400 / 8 = 300 which would be about a 7 foot male. Was your Golem taller then 7 feet?
Ogre are Large
Hill Giant Huge
to get an idea of scale. I would probably list large 10-12 feet tall?
MM has for area
Medium 5 by 5 ft. 6 feet tall
Large 10 by 10 ft. 12 feet tall
Huge 15 by 15 ft. 18 feet tall
so I guess Large is twice as tall as Medium and Huge is 3 times as tall as Medium.
Let's math this thing out.
Fun Fact: This is the same weight as about 160k+ coins in D&D, and entirely too many players entirely ignore coin weight.
I'm probably laughing.
It is apparently so hard to program Aberrant Mind and Clockwork Soul spell-swapping into dndbeyond they had to remake the game without it rather than implement it.
Attempting to determine the weight of the golem based on solid cubic iron is flawed, as I argued earlier, but I do think that the math on weight of a humanoid of X height at lean/average/muscular/obese is fascinating stuff! You should start a thread with those calculations over on tips and tricks, I alawys feel like I'm being arbitrary when I pick a weight for my characters, and that would be a really helpful reference!
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I'm going to make this way harder than it needs to be.
The PhB also has weight scales and dice rolls based off race that you can use too.