If [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION] didn't know already.
That's not what I understood from your last post. I though you suggested to convert 10 feet into 10 meters. That way you're altering the perception about the reality of the game world. For instance, I doesn't make sense to say a medium humanoid dominates 5 meters of space in combat. So, I can't stand behind this. If you want to do that, you can easily change the words on the fly and that won't mess with any rules, like encumbrance, movement, travel, jump, etc...
Now if you want more clarity, in order to help yours players envision the battlefield for instance, but still have some precision in the conversions, you can't say everything is just a unit after all! Here we come to my previous comment, you have to deal with weird broken numbers, rounded numbers, approximations, etc... And that's fine too. But in this way you have to face you're dealing with a balance between precision and easy of play. That balance is already built into the system and its imperial units. In order to convert this you may have to deal with some compromises in one aspect or the other.
Because there are other units in the game like ounces, gallons, pinch, miles, pounds, and the conversions are not straightforward game-wise. That said, I'm not against the translations including conversion tables or values as I said. I just like to have the original reference in front of me.
Press release! And we answer some questions which...we asked ourselves.
Why GF9?
Well kids, let's pretend we asked ourselves why would we outsource to TONS of other outlets? That'd be kuh-razee, that's why!
Oh, you wanted to know why outsource at all? Well, we don't know and we're not telling!
Me; 'hey thanks WOTC!'
Say what!? When did 5e release? What century are we living in? Is there a high-level management position vacant at WotC/Hasbro I could just walk into?
I apologize to the non-English speaking world on behalf of this bewildered English speaker.
It would've been nice with a version without any bad translations (i.e. still in English) but with a conversion table early in the book for TotM ranges. It is impossible to fit more than one person on a 5 feet square. On a 1.5 m square however it would probably be easy. Knowing that the typical speed is 9 m per round, it takes a 3 m fall to take damage and many spells have ranges of 18 or 36 m says a lot about the scale of combat. It always surprises me when make these conversions and realise that the distances are not that large.
Such a table, giving travel distances in km as well as miles and making temperatures something intuitive would really help me visualise things in D&D. Add it is i leave my sense of scale when I play, but I don't need the game translated into Swedish.
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Of course we need the coversion to meters. That is 3m equal 10 ft. That is how it was done in 3e and I think before that in ADnD 2e.