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There is a new question that has been tagged with . There are about 7,000 results for posts that mention the word size. There is a more specialized tag called that currently has 12 questions to its name. And there is this old Meta Q&A about introducing a [tag:creature-size], that was declined (with few votes margin and a total score of 5) on the grounds that it was "too narrow" and therefore not useful.

How about making an alias for , which appears to be a relatively common kind of question, and which would be a bit broader so it also can support creature-size questions, and other size-related questions? Most I have seen have to do with space needed, or reach, or aura sizes for increased sizes of PCs, which is not exactly what size-scaling is about: that is more about how to deal with situation where a gargantuan creature interacts with a diminuitive one, if I read the description right.

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The tag didn't need to be created in the first place.

The one question with the tag was about creature size and was a duplicate, so I deleted the tag and replaced it with the one it should have had to begin with, . The tag has a very specific and useful scope that separates it from and that is not adequately captured by removing the word scaling, so it should not be changed. Nothing else needs to be done here, and now that has been replaced with the correct tag , it will just go away.

To the request, I propose .

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  • \$\begingroup\$ So creature size was created in spite of the accepted answer saying its not needed. Weird. In that case, should size maybe be a syn for that? Because otherwise, I think someone will end up tagging something with the more natural "size" sooner or later again, leading to the same issue. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 7 at 17:49
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    \$\begingroup\$ @NobodytheHobgoblin Let’s not act like accepted meta answers are the law or something. The answer hypothesized that the tag wouldn’t get used much. The 375 questions with the tag disagree. A low engagement meta discussion from the infancy of the site that has clearly had it’s accepted answer proven wrong probably shouldn’t enter into our calculus here at all. This is the first time I’ve ever seen [size] added in five years. If it really becomes a repeat issue we can do something about that. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 7 at 18:54
  • \$\begingroup\$ Fine by me, Thomas. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 7 at 19:29

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