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Why is wotc still aiming for PCs with 10 *real word* feet of range? W/o vision range penalty/limit rules for the GM?
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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9008967" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Converted to 5ft game distance to one inch real world squares:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An entire soccer or football field is 6feet of real world table space</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Olympic sized swimming pool 2.7feet of real world table space</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The 102 floor <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Looking_Up_at_Empire_State_Building.JPG" target="_blank">empire state building</a> laying on its side , roughly 20.8 feet of real world table space from <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=empire+state+building+height&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS977US977&oq=empire&aqs=chrome.0.69i56i59j46i433i512j46i20i175i199i263i433i512j46i175i199i512j0i512j69i60l2j69i61.3112j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">ground to roof</a>. <strong> This is a number that will come up again</strong>.</li> </ul></li> </ul><p></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Longbow, 10ft of table space of table space.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">hexer(pg36) 10ft of table space of table space.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">modify spell & distant spell 3.5ft feet of table space at level 7 & increasing with 6inch increments every level till a full 10ftof table space is reached at at 20.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">light crossbow & shortbow 5.3feet of table space.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">heavy crossbow 6.6ft of table space.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Musket hand crossbow & sling 1 foot of table space.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Devil's sight provides a diameter of vision that is four full feet of table space </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">standard 30ft PC move speed 1/2 foot of real world table space or double if dashing.</li> </ul><p>Battlemats made by off the shelf chessex range from 23.5x26inch (1.95...x2.16.. ft)to 48x36(4ftx3ft). PCs shouldn't have abilities that make them look like inappropriately sized hacks. With a VTT capable of scaling to support an unreasonably huge battlefields of space that the GM now needs to both fill <em>and</em> manage the herculean task of running anything that might be in it without just roflstomping their players with a zerg rush using the soon to be forgotten possible extras they are wasting time & brainpower on throughout the combat rather than creating an interesting combat.</p><p></p><p>How huge? roughly one empire state building on it's side by one empire state building on it's side. That is an excessive burden in the <em>extreme</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9008967, member: 93670"] [LIST] [*]Converted to 5ft game distance to one inch real world squares: [LIST] [*]An entire soccer or football field is 6feet of real world table space [*]Olympic sized swimming pool 2.7feet of real world table space [*]The 102 floor [URL='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Looking_Up_at_Empire_State_Building.JPG']empire state building[/URL] laying on its side , roughly 20.8 feet of real world table space from [URL='https://www.google.com/search?q=empire+state+building+height&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS977US977&oq=empire&aqs=chrome.0.69i56i59j46i433i512j46i20i175i199i263i433i512j46i175i199i512j0i512j69i60l2j69i61.3112j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8']ground to roof[/URL]. [B] This is a number that will come up again[/B]. [/LIST] [/LIST] [LIST] [*]Longbow, 10ft of table space of table space. [*]hexer(pg36) 10ft of table space of table space. [*]modify spell & distant spell 3.5ft feet of table space at level 7 & increasing with 6inch increments every level till a full 10ftof table space is reached at at 20. [*]light crossbow & shortbow 5.3feet of table space. [*]heavy crossbow 6.6ft of table space. [*]Musket hand crossbow & sling 1 foot of table space. [*]Devil's sight provides a diameter of vision that is four full feet of table space [*]standard 30ft PC move speed 1/2 foot of real world table space or double if dashing. [/LIST] Battlemats made by off the shelf chessex range from 23.5x26inch (1.95...x2.16.. ft)to 48x36(4ftx3ft). PCs shouldn't have abilities that make them look like inappropriately sized hacks. With a VTT capable of scaling to support an unreasonably huge battlefields of space that the GM now needs to both fill [I]and[/I] manage the herculean task of running anything that might be in it without just roflstomping their players with a zerg rush using the soon to be forgotten possible extras they are wasting time & brainpower on throughout the combat rather than creating an interesting combat. How huge? roughly one empire state building on it's side by one empire state building on it's side. That is an excessive burden in the [I]extreme[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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