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Stormthorn
2009-05-21, 08:31 PM
Title says it all. I just wanted to verify. The average SUV wieghts about how much?

Keld Denar
2009-05-21, 08:57 PM
UTFG (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_weight_of_a_ford_explorer)

Short answer, about 2 US tons for a lightweight SUV like a Ford Explorer.

Other brands, models, and equipment may vary this.

Mando Knight
2009-05-21, 09:05 PM
SUVs are Huge, I'd say. Longer than 10', and weighing in at several tons, they definitely don't occupy a 10'x10' fighting space. The Ford Explorer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Explorer) (depending on year and style) is about 15 feet long and around 6 feet wide.

Stormthorn
2009-05-21, 09:11 PM
SUVs are Huge, I'd say. Longer than 10', and weighing in at several tons, they definitely don't occupy a 10'x10' fighting space. The Ford Explorer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Explorer) (depending on year and style) is about 15 feet long and around 6 feet wide.

I just checked the SRD.
Large size creatures can be 16 feet long and weight up to 2 tons.

10 by 10 is a hundred square feet. 15 by 6 is only 90 square feet.

So i guess its on the upper end of a Large creature.

RTGoodman
2009-05-21, 09:13 PM
SUVs are Huge, I'd say. Longer than 10', and weighing in at several tons, they definitely don't occupy a 10'x10' fighting space.

Yeah, pretty much. A HORSE is a Large creature, so I'd say an SUV has to be Huge.

The d20 Modern SRD also agrees with that (http://www.scratchfactory.com/ModernSRD/EquipmentVehicles.php). The Ford Escape and Chevy Suburban are both Huge. The only Large cars/vehicles on the list are the Chevy Cavalier and Dodge Neon.


EDIT: Of course, I think d20Modern is based on pseudo-3.0 rules instead of normal 3.5, since most of the cars take up a 2x3 space instead of 3x3, but I don't think it makes much difference.

Stormthorn
2009-05-21, 09:39 PM
The d20 Modern SRD also agrees with that. The Ford Escape and Chevy Suburban are both Huge. The only Large cars/vehicles on the list are the Chevy Cavalier and Dodge Neon.

I didnt even know their was a d20 modern SRD.

RTGoodman
2009-05-21, 09:56 PM
I didnt even know their was a d20 modern SRD.

Eh, it's not that popular of a game (or, at least, I don't think it is), so it doesn't get a lot of attention, and of the few versions of it I've seen floating around the internet, most aren't complete anyway. I don't know how I stumbled across it (it was a few years ago), but I keep it bookmarked just in case someone asks a question like yours. :smalltongue:

Ravens_cry
2009-05-21, 10:15 PM
According to the Vehicle table in D20 Modern, all SUV are Huge.

Shpadoinkle
2009-05-22, 08:14 AM
They're pretty much in that range that's in the upper end of large and the lower end of huge... Personally, I'd call them huge.

sonofzeal
2009-05-22, 09:20 AM
Size categories double each time. So the rule of thumb is - "does it occupy as much ground space as four guys in armor swinging swords?" Answer in this case - "yeah, probably." It's very definitely twice the size of a horse, at any rate.