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5 years ago ::
Dec 02, 2007 - 10:25PM
#41
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Feb 11, 2006
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Instead, "squares" should probably equal somewhere around 4 feet x 4 feet.
And assuming medium creatures threaten 4 feet, small creatures should threaten 2 feet.
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5 years ago ::
Dec 03, 2007 - 9:57AM
#42
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I hope someday people in US and UK stop using those crappy "imperial" measurement and go metric.:P
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5 years ago ::
Dec 03, 2007 - 11:11AM
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I hope someday people in US and UK stop using those crappy "imperial" measurement and go metric.:P
approved!
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5 years ago ::
Dec 03, 2007 - 11:38AM
#44
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Mar 19, 2001
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I am pretty sure ADnD didn´t use "inches"...
But you would be wrong. :P
Actually OD&D and AD&D 1e used scale inches, which were translated to feet indoors and yards outdoors. How's that for strange measurements?
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5 years ago ::
Dec 03, 2007 - 12:31PM
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I hope someday people in US and UK stop using those crappy "imperial" measurement and go metric.:P[/quote]
yeah, got a 5-page thread about it. i think it would be twice as easy for us using metric to get a job at NASA than the rest :p
personally i don't care if you count squares 5 feet, 4 feet, 167cm or whatnot. as long as the rules uses squares, you can homebrew it and everyone will be happy.
Personally i'll stick to 1.5 meters. 6 squares? 9 meters. mmm, delicious. charging 18 meters in 6 seconds and hitting someone sounds remotely likely to me, but i never was a master at the 60-meter dash. then again i didn't wear armor or run at someone with a sword. that might have helped inspire me though :D
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5 years ago ::
Dec 03, 2007 - 12:32PM
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ok... accepted  We use meters here, and i was sure inches is a twelfth or a tenth of a foot, depending what foot you use... Its been a while since I last played ADnD and I used mostly german books, so i just remembered the yards...
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5 years ago ::
Dec 04, 2007 - 9:53AM
#47
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Mar 19, 2001
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ok... accepted
We use meters here, and i was sure inches is a twelfth or a tenth of a foot, depending what foot you use...
Its been a while since I last played ADnD and I used mostly german books, so i just remembered the yards...
Real inches are twelths of a foot, but these were so called scale inches (from the table-top roots of D&D).
I can't find my copy of Das offizielle SPIELER HANDBUCH von Gary Gygax at the moment, but surely it also had those strange scales inches?
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5 years ago ::
Dec 05, 2007 - 9:27AM
#48
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Feb 28, 2006
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Moving to "squares" is one of the things in 4th edition I do not like. If I wanted that I would play DDM.
The square movement takes the game further away from an RPG and closer to a miniature game.
A few more new "Editions" and I see DDM and D&D becoming 1 game.
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5 years ago ::
Dec 05, 2007 - 8:25PM
#49
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Moving to "squares" is one of the things in 4th edition I do not like. If I wanted that I would play DDM.
The square movement takes the game further away from an RPG and closer to a miniature game.
A few more new "Editions" and I see DDM and D&D becoming 1 game.
Even when playing AD&D or Chromatic DnD, most people were using floor tiles with squares instead of tape measure.
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5 years ago ::
Dec 05, 2007 - 11:59PM
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Mar 17, 2001
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Even when playing AD&D or Chromatic DnD, most people were using floor tiles with squares instead of tape measure.
Well, chess uses squares, and that's really old school^^
Ceterum censeo scrinium puniceum esse delendam
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