Amusing clarification: Magic Circle

[doctorhook]

lol That is pretty funny....

*mumble*Euclidean space*mumble*

 

[Mort_Q]

Circles are blasts. A blast 1 circle can hold a medium creature, whereas a blast 2 circle can hold 4 mediums or 1 large. Or something.

Strange how cones and circles are both blasts. Well, that's conics for you.

 

[Irda Ranger]

However, 4e doesn't define circles in any way.

4E doesn't define "squares" either. Presumably standard geometry applies.

If you make it a circle, there's no way to determine how many squares lie inside it.

pi*r^2?

Relatedly, I would like a clarification on why the time it takes to inscribe a circle increases linearly with the area of the circle. Shouldn't the time it take to describe a circumference be measured in units of time * d?

*blink*

I... That is, I'd assume... Um...

*blink*

*twitch*

*'splode*

Winner!

 

[Blackeagle]

Right... it must be a circle. Of course we know in this game circles are always circles except when they're squares So which one do you think it is?

Well, circles are square when you're using certain types of non-Euclidian distance metrics.

 

[NMcCoy]

Yep. There's no contradiction here: In 4th edition, a circle is just a particular kind of square (not to be confused with the square, a unit of distance, or the square, a unit of area).

 

[Stogoe]

Its probably like.. you know.. uh..

OOO
OOO
OOO

could be counted as a circle with an origin in the center..
as could

OO
OO

or

OOOO
OOOO
OOOO
OOOO

and so forth.

Yeah, so your first example takes 9 minutes to scribe, even if the 'chalk line' in-game goes slightly through the ones around it.

'Complete' squares only. We're not trying to count up the half-squares.

 

[Voss]

So, could inscribe a circle inside your own square so that its big enough to encompass *you*, but no squares, that would take no time at all to inscribe?

 

[Dragonhelm]

Circle gets the square...

Anyone else having Hollywood Squares flashbacks?

 

[Torchlyte]

Yeah, I noticed this when I was flipping through the rituals. Luckily, the Zune has an answer for us:

The Squircle!

 

[Oompa]

An pokemon??

Nah i would just make an big square like in the books and within those square the magic circle works..

The square is the crunch and the circle within the square is the fluff..