lukelightning
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Zinovia said:firehexes are better than firecubes.
Heck, "firehex" sounds like some sort of warlock spell.
House Rules: Using circular templates weaken classes?
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Heck, "firehex" sounds like some sort of warlock spell.
ThirdWizard
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I would highly recommend you try RAW first, since my playtest wasn't the least bit impaired by the square grid. It was a bit weird the first time, but after that, nobody really cared. And, I was on the 1-2-1 wagon beforehand.
ainatan said:
The circles Thyrwyn described do fit 1-2-1-2 (or, more precisely, they fit sqrt(2), sqrt(2), sqrt(2), sqrt(2)). They don't use a multiple of 1 square as their radius, however, and have a guideline about when a given square is considered 'inside' the area.
For low values of X, the affected area of his circles match exactly the square that 4Es 'Burst X' template describes.
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
Puggins said:
I agree with this.
In the very least, I would go with either 1-2-1-2, or circular bursts, but not both. Doing both just messes things up beyond usefulness.
Personally, I am going to put a quest for perfection aside, and will be fine with oval shaped bursts. A fireball in our games was never visualized as a perfect sphere, and always appeared as a burst of ragged flame licking into the edges in a somewhat irregular way (like fire tends to do in real life). Most of the time walls and other barriers will get in the way of a perfect visualization anyway, and nobody will care or notice.
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frankthedm
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I was also thinking about changing the Blasts into a little bit more cone-like. In this HR there are diagonal and orthogonal blasts. The diagonal ones remain the same, I had no good idea to make them more cone-like. The orthogonals look much better, there is no square loss and they look like how I always though 3E cones should do.
And you can cast a blast with adjacents allies without the fear of hitting them, you can cast the blast "through" your allies to get the enemies.
And you can cast a blast with adjacents allies without the fear of hitting them, you can cast the blast "through" your allies to get the enemies.
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