<div class="grid-container-std"><div class="bctop">{{backto|[[5e:Main|5th edition]]}}</div><div class="notice"></div><div class="badge">{{5esrd}}</div><div class="gi-main">{{refstart}}A creature’s space is the area in feet that it effectively controls in combat, not an expression of its physical dimensions. A typical {{SRD5|Medium}} creature isn’t 5 feet wide, for example, but it does control a space that wide. If a Medium {{srd5lc|Hobgoblin}} stands in a 5-foot-wide doorway, other creatures can’t get through unless the hobgoblin lets them.
A creature’s space also reflects the area it needs to fight effectively. For that reason, there’s a limit to the number of creatures that can surround another creature in combat. Assuming Medium combatants, eight creatures can fit in a 5-foot radius around another one.
Because larger creatures take up more space, fewer of them can surround a creature. If five Large creatures crowd around a Medium or smaller one, there’s little room for anyone else. In contrast, as many as twenty Medium creatures can surround a Gargantuan one.{{refend|{{SRD5ref}}}}
==Creature Size==
{{refstart}}Each creature takes up a different amount of space. The Size Categories table shows how much space a creature of a particular size controls in combat. Objects sometimes use the same size categories.{{refend|{{SRD5ref}}}}
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==Unoccupied Space==
{{refstart}}An unoccupied space is an area that a {{srd5lc|Creature}} (usually you) can fit into, that that is not already occupied by another {{srd5lc|Creature}}.{{refend|<ref>inferred from the {{SRD5|Movement}} section of the {{pub|SRD-OGL v5.1}}</ref>}}
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==Sources and Notes==
:* {{Cite Pub|SRD-OGL v5.1}} Licensed: [[OGL]].
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