User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5020152-20130605232636/@comment-1011548-20130606190245

It's not a ridiculous idea, but I think it's pretty unlikely. Everything in the environment is scaled around the hunters being human sized - to my mind it makes more sense to say there's one massive tree in the Great Forest than one normal and everything else is tiny.

Also, when you're really small, all the variables in the environment (temperature, humidity, wind) become hugely magnified. It's one of the reasons most small creatures have a hard exoskeleton - it makes it easier to maintain homeostasis (and it makes the tiny vertebrates, like the dwarf chameleon, even more amazing).

Another big problem is looking at the scale of the environment compared to the organisms. The volcano areas would look totally different, for one thing (and no, you can't argue it's just a really tiny volcano, lol).