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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quidam" data-source="post: 3219141" data-attributes="member: 3391">Your spiderwalking warlock is perched on the side of a building (b) facing an alley (a) and wants to hit someone below with his eldritch blast (c).His blast has a range of 60ft.  How far down the alley can he reach?  Depends on how far up the building he is (assuming it's vertical).a^2 + b^2 = c^25ft up: a^2 + 5^2 = 60^2, 59.8ft down the alley or 11 squares.10ft up: a^2 + 10^2 = 60^2, 59.2ft down the alley or 11 squares.15ft up: a^2 + 15^2 = 60^2, 58.1ft down the alley or 11 squares.20ft up: a^2 + 20^2 = 60^2, 56.6ft down the alley or 11 squares.25ft up: a^2 + 25^2 = 60^2, 54.5ft down the alley or 10 squares.30ft up: a^2 + 30^2 = 60^2, 51.9ft down the alley or 10 squares.35ft up: a^2 + 35^2 = 60^2, 48.7ft down the alley or 9 squares.40ft up: a^2 + 40^2 = 60^2, 44.7ft down the alley or 9 squares.45ft up: a^2 + 45^2 = 60^2, 39.7ft down the alley or 7 squares.50ft up: a^2 + 50^2 = 60^2, 33.1ft down the alley or 6 squares.55ft up: a^2 + 55^2 = 60^2, 24.0ft down the alley or 4 squares.60ft up: a^2 + 60^2 = 60^2, 0ft down the alley or the square directly below him.Looks like the sweet spot is 20ft up- out of reach yet still hitting things 55' away.  Interesting to see how far you can get even 55ft up.Please let me know if I've miscalculated.  I'll leave the eldritch spear table as an exercise for the student.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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