Base measurement in DDN

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I like feet for the old-timey feel. Meters are too modern. Cubits and furlongs would be even better!

 

[tuxgeo]

Distances should be measured in arensons. 1 arenson equals (more or less) to 1 meter, equals to 1 yard, equals to 3 feet.

Personally, I don't like that one: time doesn't flow backward like that, with medieval people naming their distances after a 20th Century author.

I like feet for the old-timey feel. Meters are too modern. Cubits and furlongs would be even better!

I would be for the cubits, too -- but they are different lengths depending on the person being measured, so that's too variable for me.

The barley grain is a nice length, very standardized, 3 to an inch -- but it gets really messy trying to lay out a row of barley grains to measure distances in the heat of combat.

How about inventing a "demicanna," to be defined as being one-half of the Roman mercantile "canna" unit of measure (for cloth) that were equivalent to 1.99 meters? A 10-foot square would be 1.5 cannas in width, which is not all that apposite, come to think of it. (Of course, that's even more archaic and obscure than using "feet," so that may be no actual improvement.)

 

[Invisible Stalker]

I think you might not understand what "fad" means. Or you're joking?

Somewhat joking, there was a push in the late 1970s to try to get Americans to convert, but it was widely rejected in most spheres of average American life. The push went away as suddenly as it appeared, so it seemed like disco, a fad.

 

[StAlda]

Somewhat joking, there was a push in the late 1970s to try to get Americans to convert, but it was widely rejected in most spheres of average American life. The push went away as suddenly as it appeared, so it seemed like disco, a fad.

The rest of the world confuses and infuriates him. Just like Lrrr from the planet Omicron Persei 8.

 

[Lanefan]

10' squares for mapping, feet and miles for distance. Use common sense for who can fight where, rather than gridding combatants off in nice little 5' blocks.

But whatever gets decided, don't let it be used as an excuse to make the minis any bigger - they're too big now as it is, compared to 25mm (1 inch) scale.

Lan-"when the new Dwarf piece towers over the 1983 Ral Partha Human, there's something wrong"-efan

 

[howandwhy99]

No Standard.

It's all about who is playing the game. Meters are best for metric users, feet for the imperialists Let them decide at the table.

Squares, too, should be whatever anyone wants them to be. 5', 10', 3', whatever. This is all guidelines, right? Do what works best in your game.

 

[Incenjucar]

No Standard.

It's all about who is playing the game. Meters are best for metric users, feet for the imperialists Let them decide at the table.

Squares, too, should be whatever anyone wants them to be. 5', 10', 3', whatever. This is all guidelines, right? Do what works best in your game.

They have to use some sort of standard to get information across. Modular doesn't mean that they can randomly use Spanish and German and Klingon in the same paragraph.

 

[howandwhy99]

They have to use some sort of standard to get information across. Modular doesn't mean that they can randomly use Spanish and German and Klingon in the same paragraph.

I get it. Have a default. No big deal.

 

[StAlda]

so yards wins...Yeah!

I doubt WotC will heed this poll, but this is how my games will be.

 

[Invisible Stalker]

The rest of the world confuses and infuriates him. Just like Lrrr from the planet Omicron Persei 8.

I confuse and infuriate the rest of the world.