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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4238711" data-attributes="member: 58197">Distance and time in combat are quasi-abstractions.  There is a correlation between combat distance and actual distance, and combat time and actual time, but it's statistical, not exact.In other words, on average, one square equals five feet* and one round equals six seconds.  However, there will be some squares that are four feet and others that are six feet, some rounds that are five seconds and others that are seven or eight.Also note that squares may change their size from round to round, and a round can be different lengths for different characters... gotta love that special relativity. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />What you've got here is one of those rare statistical outliers.  The 25 squares the creature has moved are quite small, averaging about 3 feet each.  At the same time, all these events have taken place in an extraordinarily long round, about 12 seconds instead of the usual 6.  So the creature actually only moved 75 feet in 12 seconds, at a speed of slightly over 4 miles per hour.*This is not precisely correct; technically, the average square is six feet.  Squares measured diagonally average seven, while squares measured orthogonally average five.  Customarily, however, one uses the orthogonal average, since the usual reason for measuring squares is so the DM can announce "You're in a room 40 feet by 30 feet."</blockquote>

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