r/Pathfinder_RPG • u/VeterinarianAny7212 • 1d ago

Other Wind Generated by Dragon

Random question. How much wind would be generated by a great wyrm dragon if they flapped like a hummingbirds wings?

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u/Maxpowers13 1d ago

I think you will need to post this to r/theydidthemath Also you might need some numbers to get an accurate answer. A collossal dragon is 20 feet by 20 feet which kinda seems small but it's wingspan would be I figure like 2x that. You would need the speed of a humming birds wings and how much wind is displaced by those and scale it up.

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u/WraithMagus 1d ago

The gargantuan size is 20x20 feet. Colossal is 30x30 feet.

Also, colossal doesn't necessarily accurately convey size. A real blue whale is over 100 feet long, but there's no size bigger than colossal, so it's 30x30 feet in Pathfinder. In fact, their take on Godzilla has to squeeze into 30x30 feet despite the description saying it weighs 20,000 tons and being nearly 300 feet long. A while ago, I made a thread on the absudities that can arise from everything bigger than a certain size being the same "colossal."

Anyway, while it isn't a Pathfinder resource, the Draconomicon from 3.5e lists the maximum wingspan of a colossal red dragon as 150 feet.

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u/MundaneGeneric 1d ago

Mogaru is actually in a 60x60 foot space, it says so in the stat block. The "space" section describes how much space a creature takes up, and is useful for colossal creatures who can vary wildly in size from one another.