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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7400059" data-attributes="member: 996">Not nearly as fiddly as a true circle that's not snapping to a grid, like a 1e fireball on wargamer's green felt tabletop &amp; measuring tape, or, of course TotM.A fireball template on a grid (like in 3e, you could only place the center at a corner, so you could fiddle with placement, but no messing with orientation, the issue the OP was dealing with), or a simple cube, there's a lot less of an issue.&nbsp; Makes it worse, really.&nbsp; Now, if you mean in the sense that players have no authority over tracking positioning, sure, but that could be TotM, or keeping a map/grid behind the screen.&nbsp; Either way, you eliminate the fiddling around, since the player has no direct opportunity to do so.&nbsp; The best he can do is ask &quot;how many of them can I catch in a fireball.&quot;&nbsp; Then you either make a good faith attempt at figuring out exactly where everyone is on the field, and where a fireball could be placed to maximize how many of them it catches - or you just make up a number that sounds good to you.&nbsp;No kidding, but it strayed.&nbsp; That's not how firecubes worked.&nbsp; They were Area Burst 3, so you picked a square, and every square w/in 3 (forming a 7x7 square) was affected.&nbsp; 'Rotating' it did nothing, because you were counting squares, not doing geometry.Go off the grid and run TotM, and you can place it to the foot.&nbsp; Trigonometry becomes useful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7400059, member: 996"] Not nearly as fiddly as a true circle that's not snapping to a grid, like a 1e fireball on wargamer's green felt tabletop & measuring tape, or, of course TotM. A fireball template on a grid (like in 3e, you could only place the center at a corner, so you could fiddle with placement, but no messing with orientation, the issue the OP was dealing with), or a simple cube, there's a lot less of an issue. Makes it worse, really. Now, if you mean in the sense that players have no authority over tracking positioning, sure, but that could be TotM, or keeping a map/grid behind the screen. Either way, you eliminate the fiddling around, since the player has no direct opportunity to do so. The best he can do is ask "how many of them can I catch in a fireball." Then you either make a good faith attempt at figuring out exactly where everyone is on the field, and where a fireball could be placed to maximize how many of them it catches - or you just make up a number that sounds good to you. No kidding, but it strayed. That's not how firecubes worked. They were Area Burst 3, so you picked a square, and every square w/in 3 (forming a 7x7 square) was affected. 'Rotating' it did nothing, because you were counting squares, not doing geometry. Go off the grid and run TotM, and you can place it to the foot. Trigonometry becomes useful. [/QUOTE]

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