For context I have been reading forums and stuff, and I read a few different websites, including this one, but it might be in a book I don't own. So just asking, how big can a Homunculus be? I know some people say the size of a housecat, or 2.5 feet in a square. But does it say that somewhere on one of the books or is that just something everybody agreed on and is still technically homebrew?
Per the stat block in the spell description, it's Tiny.
Tiny is a size category. The size categories are defined in chapter 1 of the Player's Handbookhere. It's defined there that a Tiny creature takes up an area of 2.5 x 2.5 feet.
"A creature belongs to a size category, which determines the width of the square space the creature occupies on a map, as shown on the Creature Size and Space table. That table lists the sizes from smallest (Tiny) to largest (Gargantuan). A creature’s space is the area that it effectively controls in combat and the area it needs to fight effectively."
My experience is that the size dimensions dictate the actual size of the creature. For example, a druid wildshaping into a "tiny" creature ends up being 2.5x2.5 feet, which ends up being larger than a lot of new players expect.
To your question, the largest a homuculus can be, physically, is 2.5x2.5 ft. Also, since the stat block says "tiny", and lists its strength as 4, the most it can carry is 7.5*4=30 pounds.
Keep in mind to that Goliath should be considered large, as they are right on the boarder, but are handled as medium for game play reasons. Horses are large, and occupy 2x2, when they’re technically a 2x1 by mass.
So there usually is some fiddling room within a size class to how big it actually is.
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For context I have been reading forums and stuff, and I read a few different websites, including this one, but it might be in a book I don't own. So just asking, how big can a Homunculus be? I know some people say the size of a housecat, or 2.5 feet in a square. But does it say that somewhere on one of the books or is that just something everybody agreed on and is still technically homebrew?
Per the stat block in the spell description, it's Tiny.
Tiny is a size category. The size categories are defined in chapter 1 of the Player's Handbook here. It's defined there that a Tiny creature takes up an area of 2.5 x 2.5 feet.
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Also, that space is the area the creature controls, not necessarily it's actual size.
Spell description and its stat block.
stat block says its "tiny".
The last link is from phb explaining size and giving dimensions for each.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/3107729-homunculus-servant
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/efota/the-artificer#HomunculusServantStats
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/phb-2024/playing-the-game#CreatureSizeandSpace
"A creature belongs to a size category, which determines the width of the square space the creature occupies on a map, as shown on the Creature Size and Space table. That table lists the sizes from smallest (Tiny) to largest (Gargantuan). A creature’s space is the area that it effectively controls in combat and the area it needs to fight effectively."
My experience is that the size dimensions dictate the actual size of the creature. For example, a druid wildshaping into a "tiny" creature ends up being 2.5x2.5 feet, which ends up being larger than a lot of new players expect.
To your question, the largest a homuculus can be, physically, is 2.5x2.5 ft. Also, since the stat block says "tiny", and lists its strength as 4, the most it can carry is 7.5*4=30 pounds.
Keep in mind to that Goliath should be considered large, as they are right on the boarder, but are handled as medium for game play reasons. Horses are large, and occupy 2x2, when they’re technically a 2x1 by mass.
So there usually is some fiddling room within a size class to how big it actually is.