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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8982289" data-attributes="member: 93670">I worry about the ranges listed on those weapons being a bit too extreme absent some serious & unhinted changes to vision ranges.[spoiler="simple ranged"]<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Light crossbow Range: 80/320 - half a standard chessex mat/more than the entire chessex megamat</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dart Range: 20/60 - This is great & allows the attacker to swing about in an encounter attacking targets at will while allies engage at close range</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Shortbow Range: 80/320  - half a standard chessex mat/ more than the entire chessex megamat</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sling Range: 30/120 - half a standard chessex mat/the entire standard chessex mat or half the chessex megamat.</li> </ul>[/spoiler][spoiler="martial ranged"]<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blowgun Range: 25/100- This is great & allows the attacker to swing about in an encounter attacking targets at will while allies engage at close range/almostthe entire standard chessex mat or just under  half the chessex megamat.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Crossbow heavy Range: 30/120  - half a standard chessex mat/the entire standard chessex mat or half the chessex megamat.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">hand crossbow Range: 100/400 -almost an entire standard standard cchessex mat or somewhere between a third & half the megamat./ almost two full megamats</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">longbow Range: 150/600 - almost an entire standard standard cchessex mat or somewhere between a third & half the megamat/  almost THREE full megamats </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Musket Range: 40/120 - half a standard chessex mat/the entire standard chessex mat or half the chessex megamat.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pistol Range: 30/90 This is great & allows the attacker to swing about in an encounter attacking targets at will while allies engage at close range / almost an entire standard standard cchessex mat or somewhere between a third & half the megamat.</li> </ul>[/spoiler]As we move into VTTs being more & more common with wotc even planning one this excess becomes even more problematic because it forces the GMs to make maps that can accommodate bob wanting to attack from max range or bob and alice wanting to attack from max ramge but from different directions.  Wotc showed some outdoor environments in their VTT video recently, I'd bet that odds were slim & near zero that those maps met those bars.  With a dry erase matit's easy for a GM to absolve responsibility for those extremes just by saying "the mat's not that big man... here's a broadstrokes of what your character sees/thinks is between you & that target".  With a capable VTT the GM lacks that shield though because the only thing stopping bob from having a perfect gods eye view is the GM refusing to zoom the map.For the record, chessex megamat is [ispoiler]34.5inches x48 inches[/ispoiler] & the standard map is [ispoiler]23.5inches x 26 inches.[/ispoiler].</blockquote>

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