Cone Spells

[candidus_cogitens]

My question is about cones spells cast "on the diagonal." See p. 68 of the DMG. There is an illustration using the Color Spray spell as an example.

The cone cast straight ahead is funny looking too, but I understand the principle: width equals distance from caster. This results in the area of effect getting one square wider at each successive file. (I suppose it is up to the player to designate which square he wants to effect when an odd number of squares would be affected.)

But the diagonal cone doesn't make much sense to me. My only complaint about it is that I will have to look up this diagram every time a diagonal cone is cast. I guess I'm just to lazy for that.

Any help on this?

 

[dcollins]

In the article on my website entitled "Spell Areas on a Grid", I include templates for cone-areas on both the straight line and diagonal that you can print out and use in your games, if you find that helpful.

Look here under the "Spell Templates: Arced Areas" heading: www.superdan.net/spellar/spellar1.html

 

[Shard O'Glase]

Bastard.

I went through the trouble of making those dang templates by hand, and all I had to do was visit your site and print them out. GAH.

 

[dcollins]

Sorry!

 

[Shard O'Glase]

I just skimmed the rest of your site, and you're a madman. That must of taken an insane amount of effort to put together. It's a great resourse for the lazy DM (or any DM)like me.

So, Thanks

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Look here under the "Spell Templates: Arced Areas" heading: www.superdan.net/spellar/spellar1.html

Not bad. Not bad at all!

 

[Corwin the Confused]

Cool site dcollins! Are you independently wealthy with too much time on you hands? lol

 

[dcollins]

Geez, I wish I was independently wealthy!

I'm mostly just really exacting about what I need to run my games as efficiently as possible. Thank god for the internet, ten years ago I'd write all this stuff for AD&D and it would just sit on my own hard drive.