The RAW (diamond for more area) is clear. The RAI being grid-aligned only, I would say, merely qualifies as extremely probable. The most amusing thing? They forgot to specify the *number* of sides in a blast (the Thunderwave example is merely and explicitly that, an example). Enjoy, if your "rocks fall, everyone dies" dodging skill is high enough.
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Can you do a "diamond" shaped blast?
- Thread starter tafkamhokie
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Tenniel
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Wouldn't:
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Be a 3 by 3 square??
Hee hee, that means 3 x 3=13.
When you move, you move faster along the diagonals, so why can't blasts go further?
But, in the intersets of keeping things simple (even if there was no specific ruling in the books) I would say keep things orthogonal... unless a TPK was looming or something then player creativity would be rewarded by DM genorosity
. . X . .
. X X X .
X X X X X
. X X X .
. . X . .
Be a 3 by 3 square??
Hee hee, that means 3 x 3=13.
When you move, you move faster along the diagonals, so why can't blasts go further?
But, in the intersets of keeping things simple (even if there was no specific ruling in the books) I would say keep things orthogonal... unless a TPK was looming or something then player creativity would be rewarded by DM genorosity
hamishspence
Adventurer
3 by 3
The tight-fisted way: say it must be 3 by 3 all ways: edge to edge, corner to corner. Thanks to 4th ed diagonal rules, this actually works.
The 13 square is 5 by 5 (corner to corner) so doen't qualify.
The tight-fisted way: say it must be 3 by 3 all ways: edge to edge, corner to corner. Thanks to 4th ed diagonal rules, this actually works.
The 13 square is 5 by 5 (corner to corner) so doen't qualify.
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