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Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
Grids *are* optional...See, if people stop using grids this wouldn't be a problem.
Grids *are* optional...See, if people stop using grids this wouldn't be a problem.
As if totm without grids doesn't have a plethora of problems.
Go to the bathroom and you're suddenly clueless.
Who says use TotM? Get out a measuring device, use templates, and go freeform like many wargames. The grid is a cage, keeping your soul tied to artificial contraints.
Yeah. Artificial constraints like measuring devices or templates? Got it. Some people just don't like it when their melee PC can only move 30 feet, but the grid shows the enemy at 35 feet. They'd prefer to not use grids so that their melee PC gets an attack in every round. Meh.
Sure, but the same is true whether you fire the bolt directly at someone, or between two people. Unless the face of the lightning bolt is literally a 5-foot-square cross-section, it should be possible for it to pass directly through the five-foot-cube where you're standing, and possibly not hit you; similar to how you might describe an arrow as sailing over the target's shoulder. If you spend your action to Dodge, then it's easier to avoid being hit, which is represented as Advantage on your save.So do an experiment. Draw a 5 ft square on the ground. Stand somewhere in the square. Notice that there's quite a bit of room, it's as wide or wider than most hallways. It's a decent (if arbitrary) space for an individual to control in combat, but it's also mostly unoccupied space.
Sure, but the same is true whether you fire the bolt directly at someone, or between two people. Unless the face of the lightning bolt is literally a 5-foot-square cross-section, it should be possible for it to pass directly through the five-foot-cube where you're standing, and possibly not hit you; similar to how you might describe an arrow as sailing over the target's shoulder. If you spend your action to Dodge, then it's easier to avoid being hit, which is represented as Advantage on your save.
It's just that, for whatever reason, not getting hit will still cause you to take half damage.
If you spend your action to Dodge, then it's easier to avoid being hit, which is represented as Advantage on your save.
It's just that, for whatever reason, not getting hit will still cause you to take half damage.
So, making the save means you move from the center of the effect to the edge of the effect, which is as far as you can get without leaving the square? by that logic, if the bolt was aimed such as to only cover the half of your square, then moving to the far edge of the square would allow you to avoid the effect entirely.The bolt does average 5 ft wide, so if it's fired in your space you probably won't be able to avoid it completely. Hence half damage. Seems logical to me.
So, making the save means you move from the center of the effect to the edge of the effect, which is as far as you can get without leaving the square? by that logic, if the bolt was aimed such as to only cover the half of your square, then moving to the far edge of the square would allow you to avoid the effect entirely.
I'd be fine with a DM ruling that an oblique hit from a lightning bolt grants the benefit of Evasion.