Some generic range bands for any rpg-like comparisons (may vary per game system).
PERSONAL RANGE SCALE
- Range 0: Touching (0m)
- Range 1: Talking (up to 3m/10 feet) … maximum range of unarmed, melee attacks
- Range 2: Close (up to 25m/80 feet) … maximum range of thrown weapons
- Range 3: Short (up to 100m/320 feet) … maximum range of bows, crossbow
- Range 4: Medium (up to 300m/1,000 feet) … maximum range of pistols
- Range 5: Long (up to 750m/half mile) … maximum range of rifles, military lasers
- Range 6: Very Long (up to 3 km/2 miles) … maximum range of sniper rifles
- Range 7: Distant (up to 25 km/15 miles) … maximum range of artillery, missiles
- Range 8: Very Distant (up to 250 km/150 miles) … stratosphere to outer space
- Range 9: Orbital (up to 1,000 km/630 miles) … Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites
- Range 10: Beyond (more than 1,000 km/630 miles) … see Astronomical Ranges
ASTRONOMICAL RANGE SCALE
- Range A0: Touching (0m) … all personal ranges below Long range
- Range A1: Close (within 1 km) … covers (5) Long to (6) Very Long personal ranges
- Range A2: Short (1,000s km) … covers (7) Distant to (9) Orbital personal ranges
- Range A3: Medium (10,000s km) … geostationary orbit above Earth
- Range A4: Long (100,000s km) … a few light seconds
- Range A5: Distant (millions km) … a few light minutes
- Range A6: Subsystem (100s millions km) … astronomical units
- Range A7: System (billions km)
- Range A8: Parsec (trillions km) … a few (3.26) light years
- Range A9: Subsector (10s light years)
- Range A10: Sector (100s light years)
- Range A11: Quadrant (1,000s light years)
- Range A12: Galactic (10,000s light years)
- Range A13: Intergalatic (100,000s light years)
- Range A14: Supercluster (millions of light years)
- Range A15: Universal (billions of light years)
SIZES
- Size -2: Minuscule (coin-size)
- Size -1: Tiny (handheld-size)
- Size 0: Small (0.5m to 1.5m, briefcase-size)
- Size 1: Medium (1m to 2m, human-size)
- Size 2: Large (2m to 4m, horse, small car)
- Size 3: Very Large (3m to 5m, elephant, large car)
- Size 4: Huge (4m to 15m, fantasy giants, tractor-trailer, Star Wars’ X-Wing)
- Size 5: Gargantuan (5m to 30m, fantasy ancient dragons)
- Size 6: Gargantuan (15m to 60m, blue whale, Airbus A380, Star Wars’ Millenium Falcon)
- Size 7: Colossal (30m to 140m, classic Godzilla kaiju)
- Size 8: Colossal (60m to 300m, classic King Ghidorah kaiju)
- Size 9: Titanic (120m to 600m, Empire State Building, RMS Titanic, ST:TOS’s USS Enterprise)
- Size 10: Titanic (250m to 1,300m, ST:TNG’s USS Enterprise-D)
- Size 11: Titanic (500m to 3k, Star Wars’ Imperial Star Destroyer, asteroid space slug)
- Size 12: Provincial (1k to 6k, city of Miami)
- Size 13: Provincial (2k to 12k, city of Philadelphia)
- Size 14: Provincial (5k to 25k, Mt. Everest, New York City, SW’s Cloud City of Bespin)
- Size 15: Small Nation (10k to 50k, surface of Connecticut, El Salvador or Israel)
- Size 16: Small Nation (20k to 100k, surface of Louisiana or Greece)
- Size 17: Small Nation (50k to 250k, California, France)
- Size 18: Large Nation (100k to 500k, surface of Texas or Afghanistan, Star Wars’ Death Star I)
- Size 19: Large Nation (250k to 1,300 k)
- Size 20: Large Nation (500k to 2,500 k)
- Size 21: Continental (1,000k to 5,000k, surface of Australia)
- Size 22: Continental (2,500k to 10,000k, Earth’s moon, surface of USA, China or Europe)
- Size 23: Continental (5,000k to 25,000k, surface of Russia)
- Size 24: Planetary (10,000k to 50,000k, planet Earth)
- Size 25: Planetary (25,000k to 100,000k)
- Size 26: Jovian (50,000k to 250,000k, planet Jupiter)
- Size 27: Jovian (100,000k to 500,000k)
- Size 28: Jovian (250,000k to 1 million k)
- Size 29: Stellar (500,000k to 2 million k, Earth’s Sun)
- Size 30: Stellar (1 million k to 5 million k, Sirius star)
- Size 31: Stellar (2 million k to 10 million k)
- Size 32: Superstellar (5 million k to 25 million k)
- Size 33: Superstellar (10 million k to 50 million k, Arcturus star)
- Size 34: Superstellar (25 million k to 100 million k, Aldebaran star)
- Size 35: Superstellar (50 million k to 250 million k)
- Size 36: Superstellar (100 million k to 500 million k, Larry Niven’s Ringworld)
Starships (displacement tonnage, range of lengths)…
- Size 1: personal battlesuit (like Iron Man Mark III suit)
- Size 2: big battlesuit (Hulkbuster Iron Man suit, Dark Trooper Phase II)
- Size 3: “space capsule” craft (lifepod/escape pod, re-entry pod)
- Size 4: under 10 tons (snub fighters, like SW X-Wing or TIE Fighter)
- Size 5: 10s of tonnage (5m to 30m, shuttlecraft, Traveller modular cutter)
- Size 6: 100s of tonnage (15m to 60m, Traveller scouts, free traders, merc cruisers, also the Millenium Falcon)
- Size 7: 1,000s of tonnage (30m to 140m, Traveller system patrol boats)
- Size 8: 10,000s of tons (60m to 300m, Traveller cruisers, S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier)
- Size 9: 100,000s of tons (120m to 600m, ST Federation cruisers/Kirk’s Enterprise)
- Size 10: Millions tons (250m to 1,300m, ST Federation dreadnought/Picard’s Enterprise)
- Size 11: 10s millions tons (500m to 3k, SW Imperial Star Destroyer, Farscape’s Moya Leviathan transport)
- Size 12: 100s millions tons (1k to 6k, Wayland-Yutani Corp. orbital refinery)
- Size 13: Billions of tons (2k to 12k, Imperial Super Star Destroyer The Executor)
- Size 14: 10s of billions tons (5k to 25k, Lando’s Cloud City, Federation Spacedock, Borg Cube)
- Size 15: 100s of billions (10k to 50k, Knowhere mining colony/severed Celestial head)
- Size 16: Trillions (20k to 100k)
- Size 17: 10s trillions (50k to 250k)
- Size 18: 100s trillions (100k to 500k, Death Star I at Battle of Yavin)
- Size 19: 1,000s trillions (250k to 1,000k, Death Star II at Battle of Endor)
- Size 20: 10s quadrillions (500k to 2,500k)
- Size 21: 100s quadrillions (1,000k to 5,000k)
- Size 22: 100s quadrillions (2,500k to 10,000k, Earth’s moon)