Chess and diagonals

[HeinorNY]

The chess and the Civilization points really changed everything in my mind. If 1-1-1-1 works form them there is no reason for it not work in D&D, right?

 

[maggot]

It is an un-fun rule. In chess 4.0 it has been removed in order to provide a streamlined and improved chess experience.

Actually, chess.4e will include the much improved warcastling maneuver.

 

[Benimoto]

Well the idea is that since the king in chess can move one square a turn, over say 6 turns, he can move as far as a D&D character with speed 6. So the distance a king can move in a set number of turns is known as chessboard distance or Chebyshev distance. Which is now essentially the distance metric used in 4th edition battles.

 

[FireLance]

Haven't you heard of Knightmare Chess?

 

[Colmarr]

I've just been reading about how Chess "went anime" in the 15th century.

[Snip!]

Cheers!

I can't tell whether this is humorous sarcasm, or whether this is actually true. If the former, nice work. If the latter, I learned something new today...

 

[Mercule]

You need to wait for the splatbooks. "Complete Bishop" is coming out this spring.

Those things spoil the game. The "en passant" feat is totally broken.

 

[Hrothgar Rannúlfr]

But, without en passant, the warpawn is vastly underpowered and no one would take that class.

 

[MerricB]

I can't tell whether this is humorous sarcasm, or whether this is actually true. If the former, nice work. If the latter, I learned something new today...

Both. The comment about "going anime" is humorous sarcasm; the rule changes to Chess are real. The game has a long history of development.

Cheers!

 

[MerricB]

Well the idea is that since the king in chess can move one square a turn, over say 6 turns, he can move as far as a D&D character with speed 6. So the distance a king can move in a set number of turns is known as chessboard distance or Chebyshev distance. Which is now essentially the distance metric used in 4th edition battles.

Which is *exactly* how far a character taking only 5' steps can move in 3e under the same restrictions.

The idea of "Chessboard distance" is correct, but the actual application to 3e/4e movement isn't.

Cheers!

 

[hong]

I can't tell whether this is humorous sarcasm, or whether this is actually true.

The best humorous sarcasm is completely true. Trust me, I'm a statistician.