DroneRights comments on It comes up more often than you'd think

[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dungeons and Dragons is non-euclidian. The length of the hypotenuse is equal to the longer of the two sides. Yes, it's silly. But that's RAW

[–] FunctionFn@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That's only true for movement. For areas of effect, there are templates for each size for square grids that are roughly shaped like real circles.

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[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

It's also true for spells that target a creature

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Nah, what would be silly is using Manhattan distance

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