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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4832447" data-attributes="member: 80487">At <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4832276-post140.html" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/4832276-post140.html</a>I pointed out how far AD&amp;D was from equating 1&quot; in the rules with 1 inch on the table. In fact, the assumption was that it should translate either to 3&quot; or to 9&quot;!The original set assumed familiarity with Chainmail, which had a 1:20 figure:man ratio -- or 1:10 with figures smaller than 30mm scale, as they covered less area. Likewise, the naval rules in Volume 3 suggested:&quot;Necessary&quot; here should not be taken to mean that figures or counters are themselves necessary. Note further that height is throughout given in the form of &quot;40 feet&quot; and so on.Then there is the Eldritch Wizardry combat-round system.This is open to several different interpretations, given the ambiguity of the context.The really basic assumption throughout is not that figures will be used, but that the reader, given examples, can work out such issues of scaling as necessary and adapt representation to whatever is appropriate to the affair at hand.The use of a grid, although mentioned in AD&amp;D, is not really pertinent to the rules. The 4E rules are a bit tricky to use without a grid of squares. Not that it can't be done, of course.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 4832447, member: 80487"] At [URL]http://www.enworld.org/forum/4832276-post140.html[/URL] I pointed out how far AD&D was from equating 1" in the rules with 1 inch on the table. In fact, the assumption was that it should translate either to 3" or to 9"! The original set assumed familiarity with [I]Chainmail[/I], which had a 1:20 figure:man ratio -- or 1:10 with figures smaller than 30mm scale, as they covered less area. Likewise, the naval rules in Volume 3 suggested:"Necessary" here should not be taken to mean that figures or counters are themselves necessary. Note further that height is throughout given in the form of "40 feet" and so on. Then there is the [I]Eldritch Wizardry[/I] combat-round system. This is open to several different interpretations, given the ambiguity of the context. The really basic assumption throughout is not that figures will be used, but that the reader, given examples, can work out such issues of scaling as necessary and adapt representation to whatever is appropriate to the affair at hand. The use of a grid, although mentioned in AD&D, is not really pertinent to the rules. The 4E rules are a bit tricky to use [i]without[/i] a grid of squares. Not that it can't be done, of course. [/QUOTE]

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