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Just make a house rule and you have it.

Skill is a limitation to wear it. You penalize the players that have the role to wear it if it is real expensive.

You are implying that counting X squares from center in all directions is a use for defining the area of the blast. That is the area of the burst in the sense the origin is in the center of the burst. The blast has the origin on the side at the location of the caster. I do not see how counting...

I do not think a burst can be used in this context as the origin square is in the middle of the burst radius. The origin square is at the location of the caster. This is adjacent to the blast area. I think the shape would be more based on the type of effect the power is. If it is a gas and there...

That's a burst not a blast.

Another point I would like to bring up with blast (this applies to burst as well) is Line of Effect. On page 273 (WotC is only concerned with future printings of the book for page numbers. Nobody does searches so by that time this thread will be forgotten.) They spend much effort saying what is...

Actually I believe there is an unlimited number of ways to interpret the rules. I believe the rules are merely guidelines to run your game. I do not see a problem with the way you want to run it as you are doing the same for both the players as the monsters. I made my decision on how I was going...

Actually I will concede that the example does say ‘which means’ as a valid use as a rule.

I was correct in that you are using an example to surmise the shape is a square. That is an example only. There is no rule that says the area is a square. If you use the example to say they show no blast as anything but a square, then other people can say that they show no other blast that has...

But you have not shown the RAW that says the blast area is square. I assume you are using the example as the reference to the blast being square. This is just as the other people are using the example to say the sides of said square are horizontal and vertical. They show no squares rotated as...

Where does it say this? Page and quote.

I have checked all your posts in this thread and you have not quoted one rule that says the area is a square. In several of your posts you quote the rule that brings into question the whole square concept. The rule on page 272 that states. “A blast fills an area adjacent to you that is a...

Where does it say the area is a square?

Well I have to say that the rules only state a number of squares on a side. No were in the rules do they say this number applies to any more than one side. They have simple examples that show a square effect but nothing that says more than one side has to have X number of squares.

KarinsDad, Your expansion was increase one square in width each square out. My example was increase one square in width every two squares out. I added the final square out as I doubt many players would want to lose that one square of area. Edit: A post got in before my post so I wanted to...

On a lighter side, I call this blast the help your buddies out blast. ;) ...... .xxxx. .x..x. .xxx.. ..O...

Now if you are going with the cone then you should be able to control the expansion. The following is a cone of nine squares and you could take a straight line of nine squares. ..x.. .xxx. .xxx. ..x.. ..x..

As I do not post much here I should say my post was more playful than serious. That is why I placed the wink at the end of it. To throw another wrench in to the discussion is that the rules for blast are on 3 pages in the PHB. Page 56; In the section Close subsection Close blast [number]: A...

Ok I have the rules for you. DMG P7 in section Battle Grid it clearly says a square on the grid is 1 inch square. PHB page 272 in the shaded area titled Areas of Effect sub section Blast as quote: A blast fills an area adjacent to you that is a specified number of squares on a side. This...

My option was not listed. I will not download the illegal PDFs. I have my preorder for the set with Amazon. If WotC offers the books in PDF without any DRM that will make my PDFs worthless if some server is shutdown (Google and Microsoft did this to their customers), I will buy them also.