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[Jeff Wilder]

Originally Posted by Herremann the Wise

Let's say you move 14 "squares" diagonally. As the crow flies, this is about 19.8 squares of distance and will take 21 squares of 1-2-1 movement.

So ... you lose a square of movement if your Speed is at least 35 feet, and you double-move the full distance, and you're moving only diagonally?

I can honestly say taht has never happened to me in a 3.5 game.

Any idea what the "3.5 players are so used to getting shorted a square that they don't even notice" thing is about? It can't be the above, surely?

Effectively, you have been forced to use an extra square of movement. This is against the extra 5.8 squares of movement that moving 1-1-1 has sped your character by in only taking 14 squares to traverse the same distance.

While neither is perfect, 1-2-1 would appear by any fair analysis to be substantially more accurate/fairer.

Obviously.

The "1-1-1 is simpler" is a much better approach. Math is simply not on 1-1-1's side, in any way. "I prefer simpler to more realistic," on the other hand, is perfectly reasonable. Not to our taste, depending on the balance, but reasonable.