Weights for a Few Common Items
The equipment tables in the Player’s Handbook don’t quite cover everything a character might decide to pick up and carry. Here are weight figures for a few such items.
| Armchair |
20 lb. |
| Chair, simple |
5 lb. |
| Door, iron (2 in. thick) |
3,200 lb. |
| Door, stone ( 2 in. thick) |
2,200 lb. |
| Door, simple wooden (1 in. thick) |
150 lb. |
| Door, good wooden (1 1/2” thick) |
225 lb. |
| Door, strong wooden (2 in. thick) |
350 lb. |
| Footstool |
2 lb. |
| Petrified creature |
x8 lb. |
| Spirits, cask |
18 lb. |
| Spirits, hogshead |
750 lb. |
| Spirits, keg |
90 lb. |
| Spirits, barrel |
375 lb. |
| Statue, Gargantuan |
19,200 lb. |
| Statue, Huge |
8,100 lb. |
| Statue, Large |
2,400 lb. |
| Statue, Medium |
300 b. |
| Statue, Small |
40 lb. |
| Statue, Tiny |
3 lb. |
| Table, banquet |
225 lb. |
| Table, small |
60 lb. |
| Tapestry |
100 lb. |
| Workbench |
300 lb. |
Table Notes
Here are a few notes to clarify the table entries.
- Armchair: This entry assumes fine hardwood construction and a leather or cloth cover. The weight given is for a chair built for a Medium creature. Cut the weight in half for each size category below Medium and double the weight for each size category above Medium.
- Chair, Simple: This is a plain chair made from inexpensive hardwood, and it has no arms. See the armchair entry to adjust the weight for larger or smaller creatures.
- Doors: All doors are assumed to be 7 feet high and 4 feet wide. The listed weight includes hinges, handle, and lock appropriate for the door’s overall construction.
- Footstool: This assumes a plain, wooden stool about 6 inches high, with a round top about 18 inches across.
- Petrified Creature: To calculate a petrified creature’s weight, multiply the creature’s normal weight by 8 and add the weight of any gear the creature was carrying at the time of petrification. When a creature is magically turned to stone, it and all its gear turn to stone. This tends to make metal gear weigh a little less, but nonmetal gear gets heavier, so the two tend to average out.
- Table, Banquet: This table is built to comfortably seat twelve Medium creatures (about 4-1/2 feet wide and 8 feet long). See the armchair entry to adjust the weight for a table built to seat larger or smaller creatures.
- Table, Small: The represents a plain wooden table that might be found in a modest home or merchant’s shop. It’s big enough to seat six Medium creatures (about 3-1/2 feet wide and 7 feet long). See the armchair entry to adjust the weight for a table built to seat larger or smaller creatures.
- Spirits: The spirits entry assumes a barrel-shaped container made from hardwood staves and iron hoops. A cask contains 2 gallons of liquid, a hogshead holds 88 gallons, a keg holds 10 gallons, and a barrel holds 44 gallons. You can use these figures for any liquid-based contents. Containers with dry contents might weigh anywhere from one quarter to two-thirds as much.
- Statues: The statues are assumed to be made of hollow metal construction (bronze) or of solid stone (marble). A statue of solid metal will weight 4 times this amount. Statue sizes refer to creature sizes as listed in the Player’s Handbook and in the Monster Manual, and they represent figures in the mid-range for each size category. A statue of the listed size could easily weigh anywhere from one half to twice the listed weight. All statue weights include an attached base or pedestal. For statues made of other materials adjust the weight based on the relative weight of that material. Refer to the material weight table here.
- Tapestry: Assumes a woven wool tapestry about 10 feet square and about 1/4 inch thick. You also can use this figure for carpets or rugs.
- Workbench: This is a bench about 3 feet high, 3 feet wide, and 8 feet long, with sturdy legs and top and a shelf or footrest below.
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Where did you get this info my friends and I are discussing something about how tall doors are and they keep saying that they are 6’4″ but I believe this feels more right
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I have been an Architectural Draftsmen for all of my adult life. In the US a typical residential door is 6′-8″ tall. Take a tape measure and measure the doors in your house. A typical commercial door, for office buildings and the like, is 7′-0″ tall.
I like to keep things simple in my games and I felt that a 4′ wide door would fit easily in a 5 foot grid and that 7′ tall works as well. This is my own take on it but there is no reason you couldn’t make your doors a different size. Also, doors in a halfling’s home would be smaller and doors in a giant’s home would be much larger.
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