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Originally Posted by Scribble  I can understand the frustration with the squares. |
I don't. Despite it having been explained to me, it's just so right-brain I can't empathize with it at all. It's such an insignificant, superficial thing to care about. People don't move in straight lines - minis should?
Hell, every
square is five feet. And because you can't enter another person's square, it means that everyone has a five foot bubble around them instead of being right up next to each other. Why doesn't
that hurt the suspension of disbelief, that there's five feet between two guys grappling?
Why? Because it's not supposed to be realistic. It's just a framework to hang the rules on, it's not
supposed to simulate anything except the barest notion of distances and positioning.
If you can accept and explain away the 5' bubble issue, then you should be able to accept and explain away diagonals and square fireballs - because the grid is not how it
looks, it's just a primitive reference model.
Squares, hexes, a grid formed out of little bunnies - I don't
care.
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