Plausibility of a six limbed, four legged giant

So, I'm creating a fantasy setting, and because why not, I decided to have giants. Not giant giants, just roughly 2 times the height of a human. Now, because physics is dumb, a giant species would have to have real large legs in order to support its massively increased weight. But just giving my giants thick, juicy legs is boring(though tempting), so I've decided to just increase the number of legs. More legs logically means more support, so I don't have to make them massive. However, I'm not quite sure if that's the case. The legs would need to have enough space between them to avoid getting tangled up in each other, so that would mean at the very least a larger base, which means more weight. Also, the extra legs would also have some weight.

Essentially, my question is this: would the support offered by the extra limbs outweigh(no pun intended) the added weight?

(Also, I know extra limbs mean less coordination, but I'll solve that later. Hopefully. Maybe. Probably not.)

posted over 4 years ago

The Humbug‭

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