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I'd guess it ties into the difference between a game and a toy. "Worldbuilding" (quoted because the definition is unclear) has (can have) strong toy aspects to it, where as actual play sessions (obviously) have stronger game aspects. A sand box is not a game per se; it is a toy that can be used...

Goodwill, convenience, affluence, and ethics. In that order.

Can someone change the thread title to reflect this retraction?

We can safely agree that that is impossible. The pro-metric camp maintains that SI is more consistent. The pro-imperial camp maintains that imperial is more convenient in day-to-day use. But even in the unlikely case that both sides agree on eachother's assessments of their own systems (which...

Progress / win! Also, thank you for bringing the D'ni to my attention.

I never called the imperial system stupid —I called it outdated— nor invalid ; It's very "valid", since some 400 million people are stuck using it, because of traditionalism, conservatism, pattriotism and/or chauvinism; because of trade dependency on non-metric economies; and/or —possibly—...

Vigesimal does have a multiplication table four times larger than decimal. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J 10 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J 10 2 2 4 6 8 A C E G I 10 12...

Which is exactly why I said "a small majority", and not 94%. Which I might have had to correct to 93%, if the UK were to be pointed out to use purely imperial units (which it does not). As for EU/UK matters, I cannot respond without violating —in spirit or otherwise— the "no politics" rules...

What's to memorize? "It takes you two hours to reach the abandoned ruins", "Last month's profits were down, m'lord!", "you find a treasure chest filled with silver". If you care enough to dig deeper than that, the detail's available. If you don't, it doesn't matter either way. "I’m sorry, but...

Unfortunately, the english / imperial system is not duodecimal. It's a hodgepodge of all kinds of different bases across its base dimensions; They didn't even manage to stick to a single numeric base for a single dimension: while the smaller units of length fractions can be excused as divisors...

Improving accuracy of myself here: duodecimal beats decimal because 12 is a highly composite number (i.e. it has more dividers (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, & 12) than any smaller integer). 6 is higly composite too (having 4 dividers, being as good as 10 in that regard), but 20 isn't (having 6 dividers, being...

Duodecimal (base-12) beats decimal (base-10) because 12 is an abundant number, unlike 10, which is a deficient number. Simply put, it means 12 (2·2·3) can be divided into a larger variety of parts that 10 (2·5) can. Personally I'm a fan of senary (base-6) because 6 is a perfect number; But the...

Avenger powers use the character's Wisdom modifier for to-hit and damage calculations purposes, not his/her Strenght modifier. Where does it say this? In every Avenger attack power. Notable exception: basic melee attack (not actually an Avenger power, of course, but you have access to it none...

Fairly neat, and, as far as my (unqualified, I am not a lawyer) eye can see, not in violation of copyright, trademark laws, or WotC's IP. Thanks for the link.

Thirded.

Same problem this morning (AGAIN!) @ 10:00 CET, same action, fixed 8 hours later.

Another vote for opaque with 1" hexes on one side, 1" squares on the other. Logistically, those'd probably have to be 8*7 | 7*7 hex/square size, or double that, 16*14 | 14*14. See this post for the patterns.

Impressive. Most impressive. Not that hard, with 4*sqrt(3) being only ~1% smaller than 7, with sqrt(3)/2 (= sin(pi/3)) being the distance between the center lines of off-axis columns. Which points to a 8*7 hex grid, or visually: using an off-axis compression factor of (7/8)/(sqrt(3)/2)...

Consider it confirmed. If you need proof (and some seem to do), see post #8 in this thread.

So, we're going to do things that way, are we. How about we trust the person who has the books and checked them, over the person who doesn't, shall we? But, since you've already demonstrated not taking my word for anything, and considering I consider it my duty to fight misinformation...