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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6686702" data-attributes="member: 6787650"><p>Hills will generally cut visibility to 1/4 mile or less, so 1320' feet. Conditions have to be pretty extreme (blizzards) before visibility goes lower than 500' during daylight hours. Not that you couldn't hide an ambush predator or two underground (bulettes, ankhegs) or a few dire wolves in the grass--but you couldn't hide a dozen orogs and dire wolves without at least one of them getting spotted. (I require stealth rolls for every member of a large party.)</p><p></p><p>But yeah, that's the single biggest difference between our tables. And it is, incidentally, also the single biggest difference IMO between AD&D and 5E. 5E is D&D: Mobility Edition. Which is why it's so interesting that almost all the spells only work at 150' or less--ranged combat is primarily the province of fighters, not wizards.</p><p></p><p>P.S. I'm surprised that your naval encounters were so close. I'd expect naval encounters to generally occur at a range of a dozen miles or more initially, then the final stages (shooting and boarding) should probably happen at distances of under half a mile. Even if your technology is at the galley stage, you should at least be able to <em>spot</em> the enemy at a distance of a dozen miles or so. See <a href="http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/interactive/crow.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/interactive/crow.html</a> for example--and that's horizon distance. A ship's sails will be visible at greater distances because they are taller than the horizon. See also <a href="http://www.pajack.com/stories/pitts/viewdistance.html" target="_blank">http://www.pajack.com/stories/pitts/viewdistance.html</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6686702, member: 6787650"] Hills will generally cut visibility to 1/4 mile or less, so 1320' feet. Conditions have to be pretty extreme (blizzards) before visibility goes lower than 500' during daylight hours. Not that you couldn't hide an ambush predator or two underground (bulettes, ankhegs) or a few dire wolves in the grass--but you couldn't hide a dozen orogs and dire wolves without at least one of them getting spotted. (I require stealth rolls for every member of a large party.) But yeah, that's the single biggest difference between our tables. And it is, incidentally, also the single biggest difference IMO between AD&D and 5E. 5E is D&D: Mobility Edition. Which is why it's so interesting that almost all the spells only work at 150' or less--ranged combat is primarily the province of fighters, not wizards. P.S. I'm surprised that your naval encounters were so close. I'd expect naval encounters to generally occur at a range of a dozen miles or more initially, then the final stages (shooting and boarding) should probably happen at distances of under half a mile. Even if your technology is at the galley stage, you should at least be able to [I]spot[/I] the enemy at a distance of a dozen miles or so. See [URL]http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/interactive/crow.html[/URL] for example--and that's horizon distance. A ship's sails will be visible at greater distances because they are taller than the horizon. See also [URL]http://www.pajack.com/stories/pitts/viewdistance.html[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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