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<blockquote data-quote="Ummdustry" data-source="post: 9047555" data-attributes="member: 7042027">Very late to the party, but I have some things to add:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">This lets you have a &quot;more reasonable&quot; large size. Currently large creatures occupy 10ftx10ft, and medium ones 5ftx5ft, this means the area difference is A FACTOR OF FOUR. With a creature 7.5ftx7.5ft, you have a more managable steps of 2.25x &amp; 1.77x. It could be a good option for minotaurs, firbolgs etc... when you want &quot;real big boy&quot; but not &quot;can't go inside the tavern&quot;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">I feel like most of the time you can probably ignore this, If you mark out a 5ftx5ft grid as &quot;bold&quot; and then the 2.5ft by 2.5ft grid as &quot;thin&quot; your players might just opt to use only the 5ft by 5ft most of time. Different colours could also be used (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mostlydisposeable/comments/14bnmqt/_/" target="_blank">like this</a>). That way there's very little extra book keeping when moving about. You simply count out most of your movement as normal, and then do a half-step if you have to at the end.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Reach, how does it work? Seems like a complicated question. Does 5ft reach let a medium creature stab over a 2.5ft gap into a medium creature, or do they still need to adjacent? We could add a new reach catagories perhaps? short weapons (i.e. knives) that need true adjacency, 2.5ft gap (i.e. swords) 5ft gaps, 7.5ft gaps (spears). A lot of book-keeping, but some wargaming tables might like that.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">There are now more options for tight vs loose formations. Again, somewargaming tables would like that, but I get the impression most tables would just ignore it, or get confused.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">AoE attacks, do you bother counting out the sub-squares for a fireball?</li>
</ol><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mostlydisposeable/comments/14bo4m9/stab_stab_stab/" target="_blank">This here </a>is my attempt to illustrate the range question. Each green 2x2 square is a unique distance away from the red figure (presumable representing the player.) Most are trivial, and it often wouldn't even need to come up, but at some point it will be annoying.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ummdustry, post: 9047555, member: 7042027"] Very late to the party, but I have some things to add: [LIST=1] [*]This lets you have a "more reasonable" large size. Currently large creatures occupy 10ftx10ft, and medium ones 5ftx5ft, this means the area difference is [B]A FACTOR OF FOUR. [/B]With a creature 7.5ftx7.5ft, you have a more managable steps of[B] 2.25x & 1.77x[/B]. It could be a good option for minotaurs, firbolgs etc... when you want "real big boy" but not "can't go inside the tavern" [*]I feel like most of the time you can probably ignore this, If you mark out a 5ftx5ft grid as "bold" and then the 2.5ft by 2.5ft grid as "thin" your players might just opt to use only the 5ft by 5ft most of time. Different colours could also be used ([URL='https://www.reddit.com/user/mostlydisposeable/comments/14bnmqt/_/']like this[/URL]). That way there's very little extra book keeping when moving about. You simply count out most of your movement as normal, and then do a half-step if you have to at the end. [*]Reach, how does it work? Seems like a complicated question. Does 5ft reach let a medium creature stab over a 2.5ft gap into a medium creature, or do they still need to adjacent? We could add a new reach catagories perhaps? short weapons (i.e. knives) that need true adjacency, 2.5ft gap (i.e. swords) 5ft gaps, 7.5ft gaps (spears). A lot of book-keeping, but some wargaming tables might like that. [*]There are now more options for tight vs loose formations. Again, somewargaming tables would like that, but I get the impression most tables would just ignore it, or get confused. [*]AoE attacks, do you bother counting out the sub-squares for a fireball? [/LIST] [URL='https://www.reddit.com/user/mostlydisposeable/comments/14bo4m9/stab_stab_stab/']This here [/URL]is my attempt to illustrate the range question. Each green 2x2 square is a [I]unique[/I] distance away from the red figure (presumable representing the player.) Most are trivial, and it often wouldn't even need to come up, but at some point it will be annoying. [/QUOTE]

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