Edgar Ironpelt
Adventurer
Either the "Forest Terrain" rules in the 3.5 SRD don't make any sense, or I'm grossly misinterpreting them.
There's an old thread about how the percentages for "trees, massive trees, etc." are suppose to be guidelines for GM mapping rather than 'Roll for each 5 ft square to see what terrain it has.' That would make sense - except that the percentages, as near as I can tell, are off by an order of magnitude.
Googling gives me figures of 100 trees/acre or less as sparse forest, and 200 trees/acre or more as "overgrown" in the real world. But using the SRD figures, 50% trees per 5 ft. square - supposedly "sparse" works out to ~860 trees per acre, with dense forest being twice that.
As a quick fix, I'm thinking of taking the SRD percentages and applying them to "per 15x15 grid of 9 squares" rather than "per square." That gives ~100 trees/acre in sparse forest, ~150 trees/acre in medium forest, and ~200 trees/acre in dense forest.
What do other people do?
There's an old thread about how the percentages for "trees, massive trees, etc." are suppose to be guidelines for GM mapping rather than 'Roll for each 5 ft square to see what terrain it has.' That would make sense - except that the percentages, as near as I can tell, are off by an order of magnitude.
Googling gives me figures of 100 trees/acre or less as sparse forest, and 200 trees/acre or more as "overgrown" in the real world. But using the SRD figures, 50% trees per 5 ft. square - supposedly "sparse" works out to ~860 trees per acre, with dense forest being twice that.
As a quick fix, I'm thinking of taking the SRD percentages and applying them to "per 15x15 grid of 9 squares" rather than "per square." That gives ~100 trees/acre in sparse forest, ~150 trees/acre in medium forest, and ~200 trees/acre in dense forest.
What do other people do?